Thought: That One Coping Technique We All Need To Survive
- Oct 10, 2011
- 1 min read
Is it fine to humor cancer? I'd say yes. Getting diagnosed with cancer is hard in itself. Sad, really. But what you see in 50/50 is anything but melodramatic, at least in the first half of the movie. But there lies its charm. In an effort to show how people react to terrible situations where a loved one is involved, which in this case, in an illness, the movie was successful enough in making the characters a lot more relatable. In life, the way we behave is not always flat out melodramatic, never two-dimensional happy or sad. And this is where the movie was most effective. It was good in building up the emotions from start to climax. You can feel the nonchalant approach at the beginning, which is funny most of the time (thanks to Seth Rogen's character) but eventually you can empathize with the sense of anxiety and panic before the surgery. The breakdown scene was the most poignant though. By this time, your pent up emotions will just burst out and you'd surely be misty-eyed. BEST SCENE. The funniest one is when they try to use the cancer thing as a pick-up line in a bar. Sick, but it worked. MY 2 CENTS: A must watch. Just be sure you are in for an emotional hayride when you watch this (Cathy's eyes were shot after the movie from crying a whole lot). For guys, unless you are not afraid to show emotions with whoever you are with when you watch this, I suggest you see this by yourself.
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