I finally got around to seeing the Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Seth Rogen starring movie 50/50.  If you haven't seen the trailer the movie is about a young and otherwise healthy man diagnosed with a rare form of cancer.

For those of you who are unaware I also have had to struggle against an unlikely case of Cancer.  For me the movie held a different kind of resonance than I imagine it would for someone who didn't traverse such an event.  Viewing it under that microscope I found the movie very honest.

One of the themes that carried on throughout the movie is how people can do and say unforgiveable things when stress this heavy is laid upon them, yet, in some cases, miraculously can find a way to forgive one another.  There were so many moments in the movie wherein I saw my own travails reflected back at me, as if someone had made a detailed record of the entire process and then slightly fictionalized it.

There are so many conversations that are reminiscent of conversations I had.  There is a driving need behind the protagonist to isolate and redefine himself.  He hurts people without realizing it or considering it because his life becomes myopic as he drifts further from the concerns of the rest of the world and focuses more on his sickness.

But there were so many glimpses into my own passed hurled at the screen like his relationships to friends and family, especially Seth Rogen's role in the film, which, in my life, was closely matched by my friend Charles and some other family filling in as support.  He may have been the only person I knew who didn't work in oncology that knew as much about my cancer as I did.

There were things said in the movie that even if they weren't said in real life... they were still said.  I don't know if that makes entire sense, but for anyone who has been through such an ordeal or supported someone as they went through such an ordeal they can watch this movie and see the truth laid bare.  There is a scene where Gordon-Levitt has a breakdown that made me feel an instant kinship with Will Reiser, the writer upon whose life the story is loosely based.  That scene alone should garner critical attention and praise for the acting and I think anyone who has been in that situation and has had that particular total loss of composure will recognize that moment as their own.

I rate this movie a 3.14 out of 3.14.