50/50 Review

I know that there's only a limited number of readers (if there's any), but there's this - I have been heavily sick for the last 6 months, which was kind of a deal breaker for writing, because I did not have the inspiration for almost nothing.
Anyway, I will try to do more reviews, I will try.

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This is a movie that I only got the chance to see recently, and before watching, I heard incredible things about it. It was said to be one of the Oscar movies of 2011 and it was released in September, and that Joseph Gordon-Levitt knocked it out of the park with his performance, and that Seth Rogen finally is NOT annoying.

The plot of this movie is fairly simple, yet heavy. The movie follows Adam, played by Gordon-Levitt, who is a fairly healthy man, receives the worst news of his life, that he has a rare form of cancer, and that his survival rate is only 50%. The film follows Adam’s fight towards the disease. Through the film, he is accompanied by Rogen, his best friend since high school, his girlfriend, played by a hot actress that I don’t know her name, but a b*tch, for the purpose of this film, his mother and a therapist played by Anna Kendrick.

There’s a lot that can be said about this film, but I am going to summarize all that with one word – amazing. This movie is simply amazing, first, the performances, Gordon-Levitt is definitely one of the better American actors of this generation (although I like Fassbender and Gosling, but one is British and the other is Canadian), his performance was so f-ing moving, specially towards the end of the movie, and that’s probably old news by now, but he only decided to be part of this film 10 days before shooting, and given that he only had 10 days to prepare for this role and he was able to deliver such a grounded performance, I would say that I hope that he gets his Oscar nomination this year. Rogen is also awesome, by offering one of the least annoying performances of his career (I don’t like Knocked Up, I kind of liked Zack and Milli Made a Porno and I thought that Green Hornet was…I nothing-ed the film, I felt nothing), he was definitely more grounded here, and his personality was more inclined towards a real person instead of a goofy presence. Anna Kendrick’s portrayal of therapist was adorable. I think I fell in love for her just because this performance, seriously, she was that cute.

Writing and directing wise, the film was fairly good, I heard that this movie was inspired by one of the writer’s real experience, as he really did have cancer and survived it, and I think that because of that, the film was much more real than most of cancer films. The best part of this film is the balance, the balance between comedy and drama, and both these parts are extremely effective, the film is funny when it needs to be funny, and it’s emotional when it needs to be.

The movie is inspired by the true story of one of the writers, so it’s no spoilers that Adam survived, but the journey was amazing, and the ending was extremely effective. I highly recommend this film, but it clearly targets an adult audience, if you are younger than 18, you might not get this film, it’s just fact. So, please, watch this, it’s really good.