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Leon On December 21, 2023




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#1New Post! Oct 02, 2011 @ 06:56:19
How exactly do you deal with someone close who has cancer? Do you move in and try and be there for him/her as much as possible? Or do you treat the person as you normally would, in order to give that person adequate space to cope on his/her own? Do you help that person live life to the fullest, knowing it may be the end, and take that person's mind off the sickness? Or do you lend a listening ear to that person's dour mindset rather than force that person to deny it?

The answer is that we really don't have a clue, as each person is different and would handle it differently. What's more, those around that person would feel and react in varying ways as well.

In 50/50, we finally get a movie that, quite simply, gets this.

What usually happens with movies of this kind of subject matter is the very result of this cluelessness of knowing how to handle subjects with cancer, so writers and directors, rather than acknowledge this, either go way overboard with the humor and leave out any real sense of depressive feelings of the subject until the very end, creating a completely fictionally polarized movie at opposite ends of the plot, or we get a long out emotional drama where life stops and everything revolves around the impending dourness of the situation, with occasional lighter moments, but with plenty of "deep life lessons" throughout.

However, in the case of 50/50, we get to see a young twentysomething straight arrow in Adam, played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and his group of various friends and family deal with it as people really do in life: the best they can, but really not knowing how or what to feel. The humor found in the movie revolves around this sort of chaos of feeling and reaction, as Adam goes through periods of acceptance, of wanting to live life more freely, yet the movie also gives ample space for his down moments in not wanting to die so young. It is a comedy without hiding the sadness that still springs up in the his and others' feelings, and it is a drama without going overboard on the emotion, except where tactfully appropriate here and there, such as a particularly harrowing moment of realization for Adam when with his mother.

Those around him act in similar ways, some handling it better than others. Casted to utter perfection, we take identifying refuge in the various changing reactions of those around him, and his reactions to them, from his best buddy, played by the always funny Seth Rogen, his selfish girlfriend (Bryce Dallas Howard), his overbearing mother (Angelica Houston), and his hospital appointed intern shrink (the breathtakingly hot Anna Kendrick), and end up breathing fresh real-life air in the midst of such a touchy subject, when viewing this little gem that definitely belongs in anyone's top 10 movie list for the year.
jazz7184 On February 23, 2012




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#2New Post! Oct 10, 2011 @ 07:40:11
I recently watch this movie . its amazing......
Fritzy On April 15, 2013




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#3New Post! Oct 11, 2011 @ 02:31:29
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