Junebug

After reading the back of the dvd, I thought that I would be watching a movie about a woman struggling to decide between wanting to be with her family or wanting to do her job. The movie however appeared quit different to me. The family doesn’t like her. The mother seems to be afraid of her and how smart she is. I think the men of the family misunderstand the way she touches them and is affectionate towards them. They seem to think she is flirting with them, but when in fact she is just showing that she cares. She wants to please the family and make them like her. She tries to help the youngest son with a paper and the mother takes it as her hitting on him. The only one who really loves her is the pregnant girl. She is in aw of how smart she is and because she is different from what her norm is. When it came time for the baby to be born, she had to decide whether to go to the hospital, after the family had already left her behind, or try to make her job better. When you are not feeling welcome in the family the normal thing to do is to put your energy into your job. And most times, when the woman is nine months pregnant and going into labor, there is not going to be any major complications. I probably would have done the same thing as she did, but after my work was done, I would have gone to the hospital to visit and make sure everything was okay. When George decided that it was time for them to go without attending the baby’s funeral, it confused me. He didn’t want to seem to be there with the family in the first place, but he felt he had the right to fuss at his wife for doing work when that was the reason they were there in the first place. He was the one there for the poor girl who lost her baby, but he left her before the funeral.
All in all, I think the reason you wanted us to see this movie, is to tell us the spark notes/cliff notes are not going to cut it for this class.