50-50 Movie Review
As you go to create a film about a young man fighting cancer, which fails to meet its purpose and the fun is still a mystery to me, even if the screenwriter Will Reiser, is basically telling her own story. But it is a rather neat trick to mix comedy with a story that moves and relevant, it helps to have an intelligent script, cast, and above all feel good. These features make the 50/50 bright star
The always friendly, Joseph Gordon-Levitt is an employee of 27 years, public radio in Seattle who do not smoke or drink, not even cross the street when the light is red, but still has been diagnosed with a rare form of cancer spine. How he and those around him his girl (Bryce Dallas Howard), his overprotective mother (Anjelica Huston), and especially his best friend (Seth Rogen), a reaction to the disease as it progresses is the heart of the film. There is also a green young therapist (this is a teaching hospital, say), played by Anna Kendrick, who plays an important role in the ability of Gordon-Levitt to confront the feelings they had never faced before.
It could not be more serious topic, but Gordon-Levitt, and in particular Rogen (who co-produced the film) to make comedy seem so spontaneous and organic. They are doing what all the guys are trying to hide their feelings and use humor to transform the real problems that they are looking in the face.
