Knocked Up

Radical?
Considering the Radical romance theme, I would say Knocked up is somewhat in between the lines of traditional and radical for a couple of reasons. As far as the plot of the movie, it follows the narrative pattern of the romantic comedy sequence: boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy regains girl. Yet, the circumstances in which this plot took place provided some different aspects. For example, it was almost as though these two were not meant for each other, yet they were just stuck together… I suppose this was the comedy aspect. Typically, it seems like romantic comedies have characters that are in some way meant for each other (not a perfect relationship of course), more so than being stuck together because of a baby.

The movie did touch of a several different topics, some of which it could be argued that the film seems to take a position on by how they portrayed the topic… Examples:
Abortion – ambiguity in their language, failing to even say the word show awareness to the subject’s sensitivity. It was hardly a debated decision by Katherine Heigl’s character. The opinions which supported the idea of an abortion had a negative bias (from the characters who gave the suggestion).
Single parent pregnancy – By telling the children that they have to be in love in order to have a baby, by the sister saying we have to help her (as if she could not do it on her own), and by the mom suggesting there was a right way to have a baby, by the couple ending up together in the end… all signs of a position against single parent pregnancies
Economic status- showed different views and lifestyles of classes… particularly on where their values stood in regards to work ethics, societal concerns, and to some degree family planning.