This film is one of my favorites, it is the story of two a late twenties/ early thirties couple pregnant with their first child trying to find a place to settle down. The films follow the couple as they travel around the country visiting their old friends while the man tries to find a better job. They remeet people that they haven't seen in years and inevitably find that just as they feel that they have found a new home a dealbreaker occurs. The couple is a relationship of equals, just two complicated people trying to find their way in the world. The film seems to fit into a genre that also includes Juno and Little Miss Sunshine. Films that do not glamorize the average home or what people really look like when they get up in the morning. These details lead us to believe the rest of the story by giving the audience these signals of authenticity. The films focus more on the complicated dynamics of families and in these everyday occurances that happen in between them. These movies focus on new types of families than the 1950's family model. These movies tell the stories of real familes, where everything is not cut and dry but that doesn't mean that they are broken.
In Away We Go the couple deals with many issues involving how to raise children with a few examples as to how not to raise your children. As well as the little mundane issues and problems that come up between couples during pregnancy. One in particualr being that of female body image during pregnancy and that while the man keeps trying to be supportive by saying he would love her if she gained weight he is in fact not helping.
The film lays out the paths for the main characters, almost like windows into the future of each place they could live. Until finally *SPOILER* they end up at the womans childhood home and decide to create their own future and theat while the future is uncertain together they will try and make it through.
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