Conclusion for Thesis

In conclusion, I found out that both films play on the idea of relationship between a mother and child, however, the film Juno plays on the struggles during pregnancy, and the film We Need To Talk About Kevin talks about the struggles after pregnancy. Juno and Evie both show that their bond with their child is unexplainable because it is unique between them and their child.

Thesis - Representation of Parenthood in Juno and We Need To Talk About Kevin

A perfect relationship.

• The film plays on the idea that there can never be a prefect relationship and there  is always struggle.

• Ellen Page, who plays Juno MacGuff in the film Juno, portrays a teenager in the stages of her unplanned pregnancy. 

• The style in Juno is similar to We Need To Talk About Kevin because they have both clever and quick dialogue. 

• Juno is shown as a struggling teenager who forms a bond with her unborn that leads to difficult decisions later. 

• This could relate to We Need To Talk About Kevin because Kevin could be because of the relationship between him and his mother. 

• In Juno, she faces the fact that giving her children up for adoption would result in changing her child's life and breaking the bond between her and her child.

Where does the responsibility lie?

• The main point to question in We Need To Talk About Kevin is whether the result of Kevin is because he was naturally a born sociopath or whether it was result of bad parenthood from the mother Eva, played by Tilda Swinton.

• I think this is what the film is trying to get across in the film as they mainly focus on the relationship between the mother and son, this is because they want to show the struggle that Eva has to go through. 

• The father doesn't seem to get blamed for the outcome of Kevin because throughout his son's childhood he seemed ignorant of Kevin's chilling actions that results in a mutual hate with Eva, the mother.