my-tv-is-dead: 50/50 (2011)

enough said

You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates : Werner Herzog
The director is simply the audience. So the terrible burden of the director is to take the place of that yawning vacuum, to be the audience and to select from what happens during the day which movement shall be a disaster and which a gala night. His job is to preside over accidents : Orson Welles
People sometimes say that the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually it's the way things happen to you in life that's unreal. The movies make emotions look so strong and real, whereas when things really do happen to you, it's like watching television -- you don't feel anything : Andy Warhol
One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that : Oliver Stone
If you can't believe a little in what you see on the screen, it's not worth wasting your time on cinema : Serge Daney
For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake : Alfred Hitchcock
Films can only be made by by-passing the will of those who appear in them, using not what they do, but what they are : Robert Bresson
Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls : Ingmar Bergman
All film directors, whether famous or obscure, regard themselves as misunderstood or underrated. Because of that, they all lie. They're obliged to overstate their own importance : FrantOis Truffaut
All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl : Jean-Luc Godard

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

50/50 (2011)

This was an excellent film based on a real story. It's about Adam, a 27 year old man who works at the local radio station and one day his life is going to change dramatically. This is because he now knows he has cancer. And not an ordinary form. So he has to deal with his future, his plans about life, his family where he is not the only patient, as also his father has another disease. His buddy, Kyle, tries to make him feel better sometimes successfully, sometimes not. His relationship with Rachael will end up as a fact of his situation and a new person will enter his life. It will be Katherine, a young student of psychology who works at the hospital for her diploma. Adam is going to learn a few things about life and its values. Touched and sometimes melancholic, this movie is stunning. Excellent performance from Joseph Gordon-Levitt and complete direction as well.