By: El Georgerino

Jason Reitman is the new big success story for directors for the last five years. After spending a few years directing a couple of short independant films, he busts out of the mold with his first full length motion picture, “Thank You for Smoking”. When this movie came out, it knocked me off my feet. He was somehow able to create a satire on the life of a lobbyist for the tobacco industry while somehow making you not want to curb stomp him, but instead feel for his situation and almost understand the arguments he presents in favor of big tobacco. Next, he came out with a little jem known as “Juno”, which didn’t seem like much at first glance — a story of a teenage girl who gets knocked up by her not-really boyfriend in the heat of mutual boredom — which really turned into an hilariously exaggerated look at just how weird and damned insane teenage love can be.

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