Juno: annoying

Sometimes when I think back on how I acted in middle school all I can do is cringe. I guess it would be right to keep in mind that children are children and not adults; that there are behaviors appropriate to children and then different behaviors appropriate to adults. Since all these childish actions are in the immovable past I am helpless to change them, and this is embarrassing, since it is impossible to simply disown my former self. It's the same reason that I cringe at memories of drunkenness. Being drunk is not really a sufficient excuse- I still have to take responsibility for my asinine antics. I'm helpless to control the actions of the past (and in fact I was semi-helpless, let's say help-impaired, to control my actions at the actual time of occurrence.)

Well, even despite these analyses and justifications, I still can't review my younger years without the groaning realization that I thought that was funny, and I thought that was cool, and I acted towards people like that. The things I did were in fact annoying and stupid. They were annoying and stupid, and it would be self-flattery to insist otherwise. It would be downright dishonest to claim that the things I did were, say, quirky or whimsical.

This is why I don't like the movie Juno. Juno is not quirky or whimsical. She's an annoying little girl whose stupid conversation made me want to punch her in the eye. No annoying high schooler talks like Juno; however, many annoying high schoolers wish they could talk like Juno. If you gave a bunch of stupid schoolkids Matrix powers to slow down time so that they could come up with bratty comebacks after every sentence, they might be able to talk like Juno. Unfortunately for them, they would still be spouting stupid, annoying piffle.