Juno by Gabriela Costales

January 2008

Juno sounds like a comedy, but it does have some serious matters in it. This movie is about a 16 year old girl who becomes pregnant. The father is her friend. So this movie is also good because Juno turns away from abortion and decides to have the baby and give it away to a good family.

Juno pretends she doesn't really care, but she still tries to find the perfect family which shows that inside she does care about the baby. So she finds a family that she thinks will be perfect. The couple had not been able to have a baby and the wife is desperate, but the husband pretends to want to be a father but doesn't really care. Juno becomes good friends with the husband, but later the husband turns out to be a jerk and divorces his wife. Juno gives the baby to the wife anyways because she trusts her, Juno then decides to talk to the real father again and they start up their bond again. They realize that they still like each other and go out with each other.

A happy ending like this probably does not happen in real life situations. Most girls like this have abortions or the father wants nothing to do with her.

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Nacho Libre by Gabriela Costales - #42729

This movie is about a Friar named, Ignacio (Nacho) Libre. He lives in an orphanage and cooks the food – nobody likes his cooking but he says it’s because there are no fresh ingredients. His dream was to become a wrestler – or a luchador in Spanish, movie takes place in Mexico. His life pretty much [consists of]; “I wake up at 5 am to cook breakfast. I love it! I also get to sleep in my bed by myself my whole life. It’s fantastic!”

One day a nun - Sister Encarnacion - comes to the Monastery and Nacho falls in love with her - too bad she’s a nun - but, so does another monk named, Hector - ya know the guy with the girly mustache. Anyways, uh …, oh right – one day Nacho finally got tired of his job and tried to fulfill his dream and be a luchador and maybe he can get some money to buy the orphans some food.

So he teams up with this weird, dirty, monkey-looking guy on the street whose name is Esqueleto and makes himself a costume. They pretty much lose every single match they were in so far but, he is getting paid because the people think they are funny. So now he goes and buys food for the orphans and nice clothes [for himself]. He wants to show Sister Encarnacion how tough he is, but she doesn’t like wrestling. So he and Esqueleto make a plan; Esqueleto would bring his friends to attack Nacho during his date and they will let Nacho win. So Nacho puts on his nice clothes and during the date the Sister asks why he isn’t wearing his robe. He says, “It was dirty, these are my recreation clothes” – he then tightens his pants where his butt is. Anyway, he gets into a fight with the wrong guy and loses.

[The movie did not end there. Obviously preparing for life as a Union rep, my daughter produced the required single page – no more, no less – Signed Amazed Father]

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