For a long time, teenage unmarried pregnancy is a often chosen theme in film and television works, such as Naomi Kawase's "Morning Dawn Is Coming" in recent years and "Happening", which won the Palme d'Or at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival, and this Time the Norwegian film "Ninja Baby" is also no exception, but compared to the above two more serious works, "Ninja Baby" is instead a comedic style, like Lindsay Luohan's "Juno Juno", taking the audience to see the impact of unmarried pregnancy on a young girl.
"Ninja Baby" heroine Rach has a rich imagination, from a young age to embrace the dream of becoming an astronaut, beer brewer, traveler, forest conservator, illustrator, and she is currently a female student enrolled in the Department of Graphic Design, not only often uses her free time to draw illustrations, record her mood and the interesting things she sees every day, usually life is also quite "wonderful", indulging in tobacco and alcohol one-night stands, any party is not rejected, but Rachy's wanton and happy life has been made a big joke by God.
From one day Rachy accompanied her roommate to an Aikido class, found that the coach With a creamy smell on her body, Moose, was the object of her one-night stand a few weeks ago, to going home because her chest became larger, her sense of smell changed, and her menstruation was asked by her roommate to get pregnant, only to learn the fact that she was pregnant, this sudden news made "Ninja Baby" Rachy always on the verge of losing control, and suddenly a huge change occurred that she had never imagined.
Interestingly, however, the "accident" that "Ninja Baby" heroine Rachy has to go through is more than that. Whether it's mistaking pregnancy for a side effect of the pill, thinking that Aikido Coach Moose is the father of the child, or thinking that this crisis can be resolved if both people decide to have an abortion, "Ninja Baby" is a gynecologist who tells Rachy that the fetus in her stomach has been completely overturned after 6 and a half months of test results.
In "Baby Ninja", which is far more than the number of abortion weeks, and the father is not yet Moose, Rachy has to try to find the real biological father of the "ninja baby" who is silently hiding in his belly, and discuss with him the child's follow-up parenting problems. However, although the whole process is still smooth, the child's biological father "Big Eagle Jesus" expressed his unwillingness to take responsibility, allowing the heroine Rachi to find an adoption partner as soon as possible, but as the due date draws closer, she also faces many unexpected and difficult challenges.
As a comedy film, "Ninja Baby" in the atmosphere of the whole film's light humor, using the heroine Rach's brain fantasy figurative illustration graffiti, showing her dialogue with the fetus in the womb, as well as the various sweet and sour experiences during pregnancy, which not only makes the character become somewhat fleshy, but also allows the audience to go deep into Rachy's inner world, from a more approachable point of view, cutting into the relatively sensitive or serious issue of "Ninja Baby" about unmarried pregnancy, abortion and child adoption.
Even if the story of "Ninja Baby" takes place in "Norway", a Nordic country where people are ideologically progressive and the social welfare system is extremely sound, we can still see the entire process that the heroine of the film, Rachi, and the ninja baby go through, whether it is the panic and confusion when it is first discovered, the fear of watching the stomach grow bigger and bigger, or the worry about the baby's health and her own future, seeing the huge impact of unmarried pregnancy and being forced to become a mother on a woman's body, mind, and soul.
Therefore, I like the portrayal of the character in "Ninja Baby", as a girl who advocates freedom, Rachda has felt quite repulsive to this "ninja baby" from the beginning, but in the case that she may not be able to take care of her, she is still very responsible as a mother and cares about everything about the baby. From trying to get to know the person who might adopt her child, to being cautious about her future, to thinking that she didn't take good care of her during pregnancy and feeling guilty about it.
But even though "Baby Ninja" allows the audience to see Rachy go through many moments full of her motherhood, such as pregnancy in October, childbirth and breastfeeding, unlike films such as "Good Pregnancy Coming" and "Juno Juno", which make women "decide" to give birth to their children because of guilt and other reasons, "Ninja Baby" finally has an unexpected ending, bringing out the theme that the whole film hopes to tell through this unmarried pregnancy story that takes place in the Nordic countries.
If a woman who has an unwanted pregnancy doesn't want to be a mother, does she have the right to choose to reject her child? After fully presenting the protagonist Rachy's mental journey after her pregnancy, "Baby Ninja" also uses the very progressive social values of Northern Europe, so that even if the "ninja baby" is born healthily, it is not "inspired" like the big eagle Jesus, and Raki still does not want children, bringing out a female "autonomy consciousness" that is more important than anything.
Just as all parents may have regretted having a child, but most of them will not admit that people choose to assume this responsibility, and then produce the so-called father's love or maternal love, so accidental pregnancy does not mean that the child must be born, even if the child is born, it is not necessary to take care of it personally, "Ninja Baby" through the final choice of the heroine Rachi, the mother's "birth" and "breeding" these two seemingly identical, but in fact, but also completely different concepts to separate, Perhaps this is the ideal goal that every social system should strive to achieve.
Unplanned pregnancy is not only terrible to give birth, but also painful to have to take on the responsibilities of motherhood for a lifetime, and if you try to avoid it, you will be subject to incompetent moral condemnation, "Ninja Baby" is not necessarily a satisfactory movie, but the meaning of encouraging people to be brave to be themselves is worth pondering. Just as ninja babies can live happily and happily even without a mother, there is no 100% absolute standard answer to everything.