Film Clip Comparison

These two scenes from the two films I chose, We Need To Talk About Kevin, and Juno, are similar in the fact that they are discussing issues over the breakfast/dinner table. However, the two scenes have very different environments. For example, in We Need To Talk About Kevin the atmosphere is very cold and tense as it's so quiet that you can hear the clanking of cutlery. The difference in the film Juno is that the environment is made so that Juno and her father are closer together and the lighting shows a homely environment. In We Need To Talk About Kevin, the family are very separate from each other and Eva walks away from the table whereas in Juno, she comes closer to her father.

I chose these two scenes to compare as it shows the motherhood of the two mothers Eva and Juno. The scenes are different to society's outlook on pregnancy because above we can see that after Eva gives birth she's in a state of depression and doesn't want to hold her son, as seen in the picture above. This is the opposite of what she should be feeling after her birth to her son as her joy of seeing her son should counteract the pain of giving birth that is in the sub-conscious part of her brain. However, in Juno, Juno MacGuff feels the happiest during her pregnancy compared to after her birth when she first feels sadness because she has emotional attachments to the baby she has given up for adoption. She does however still share the same bond with Paulie Bleeker (seen above) as she did when she was pregnant with his child. I think the reason why their relationship continue to blossom is that they share the same grief of giving their baby up for adoption. Between the two films, both mothers didn't want to see their child after both. 

These two images show the point at which the main female characters from my films, Juno and Eva, are at either their highest or lowest point. The image above shows Juno in hospital with Paulie some hours after her birth. She said that she didn't want to see the baby as she knew it would be hard to give it away.