My life Without Me
Added 9/24/2009
The movie was GREAT! We should all live life as this wonderful girl does and not only when we are diagnosed with something terminal, but live life to its fullest everyday, no matter what.
This is a movie to watch and learn from.
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How Depressing
Added 9/7/2009
What I find most depressing about this movie is that anyone in their right mind would find anything good about this story. During an extremely short time span to spend at the end she chooses to leave her kids with someone else while she behaves like a total slut and completely disgrace herself and insult her husband by her infidelity. That she had not had sex with other men is a good reason to completely destroy such a fabulous streak? There are couples out there that have spent 60-70 years and had only had each other - yet one of her many desires to have before dying is to lay down with another guy?
How convenient that at the end, the true complications and pain felt by her family at her loss was completely and totally ignored. Boy what an irresponsible and stupid thing to do. Besides being a ridiculous and immoral way to be at the end, could you imagine the pain and destruction that would have come if her sick affair were to get out? What a legacy to leave your kids! I felt ABSOLUTELY no empathy for this total fake of a person. All it did prove was that she probably would have cheated on her husband later on, so if anything (as far as the fictitious story line goes) she did him and her children a favor by dying.
Nothing good can be said about the John either (might as well have been a John). He knew she was married yet that of course made no difference, no of course not.
As if there wasn't true death and broken marriages out there that some imbecile has to make a movie about yet another idiot that thinks such behavior is oh so good. If a guy (or her) decided to drink him/herself into a stupor and hit or neglect the family so that he/she can have her last two months doing what she wants then "oh no, that would be so wrong". That would be so selfish and self destructive - but adultery, boy now that's invigorating, uplifting, and oh so what should be emulated in our society.
This movie was total trash.
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Powerful, Moving, but Not For Everyone
Added 7/22/2009
I find myself wondering if I would have liked this movie so much that I paid full price for it at Borders if it didn't have Sarah Polley starring in it. She's quite simply luminous and yet very, very real. And while I could not see myself not sharing my impending demise with those who I love and love me, I think I can understand why "Ann" (the character Polley plays) did what she did. I think she was someone who had been happily submerged in being a good wife, a dutiful daughter, a loving mother from such an early age (17) that she hadn't lived enough for herself. Ironically, her impending death was her wake-up call to to do just that.
It's this "selfishness" which caused someone else in my family to give up on the movie, the moment they saw Ann ticking off one of the items on her "bucket list" by engaging in a brief, passionate, and bittersweet affair with the lonely young surveyor played by Mark Ruffalo (quite well). But I'd like to think that while what Ann did would be very hard to understand, if I was her husband, I would say, "she went a little crazy when she learned she was going to die but I still love her and her memory." And I'd like to think that if I was her lover, I'd understand and treasure her memory, and maybe say to myself, "I never would have known her otherwise."
And I would like to think that God wouldn't hold a brief spate of selfishness at the end of a good life against all the good things such a person's life had brought to all those who she knew.
And while the movie was shot on a low budget, there are some beautiful moments in it...like when she tells Ruffalo's character that if he doesn't kiss her, she'll scream...and does. Or when her doctor brings her candy for one of her appointments with him because that's what she had asked him for immediately after he first gave her the bad news. Still another is when Ann simply stands in the rain and savors the feeling of it falling on her face, a simple pleasure she never took the time to enjoy until time was something she didn't have.
So I give it five stars for being thought provoking and moving.
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My life without me
Added 6/13/2009
Found Sarah Polley films about 1 year ago. I admire this young woman and her body of work. I am into Indie films and this one is worth checking out, one thing tho, subject matter may be upsetting to some, that is why the four stars although for me it could be a five. You laugh and you cry. just great.
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Independent films are the way to go
Added 4/19/2009
Let me tell you, I am not the type of person to cry when I see a movie. I can count on probably 2 fingers how many times I have cried. This movie is definitely one of them. This girl is my age and she is going to die in 2 months wow. Makes you really think about alot and how if you were told the same thing would you act? This is one of those movies where it seems like everything that is happening is real. You don't even think anyone is acting. Thats what I like about independent films is how much these people put into this movie with very little to no pay. If you want more of a exciting story of a person expecially someone who is rich this movie is not for you. However if you want a real life almost too real film this is a movie that is worth checking out.
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My life Without Me
Added 9/24/2009
The movie was GREAT! We should all live life as this wonderful girl does and not only when we are diagnosed with something terminal, but live life to its fullest everyday, no matter what.
This is a movie to watch and learn from.
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How Depressing
Added 9/7/2009
What I find most depressing about this movie is that anyone in their right mind would find anything good about this story. During an extremely short time span to spend at the end she chooses to leave her kids with someone else while she behaves like a total slut and completely disgrace herself and insult her husband by her infidelity. That she had not had sex with other men is a good reason to completely destroy such a fabulous streak? There are couples out there that have spent 60-70 years and had only had each other - yet one of her many desires to have before dying is to lay down with another guy?
How convenient that at the end, the true complications and pain felt by her family at her loss was completely and totally ignored. Boy what an irresponsible and stupid thing to do. Besides being a ridiculous and immoral way to be at the end, could you imagine the pain and destruction that would have come if her sick affair were to get out? What a legacy to leave your kids! I felt ABSOLUTELY no empathy for this total fake of a person. All it did prove was that she probably would have cheated on her husband later on, so if anything (as far as the fictitious story line goes) she did him and her children a favor by dying.
Nothing good can be said about the John either (might as well have been a John). He knew she was married yet that of course made no difference, no of course not.
As if there wasn't true death and broken marriages out there that some imbecile has to make a movie about yet another idiot that thinks such behavior is oh so good. If a guy (or her) decided to drink him/herself into a stupor and hit or neglect the family so that he/she can have her last two months doing what she wants then "oh no, that would be so wrong". That would be so selfish and self destructive - but adultery, boy now that's invigorating, uplifting, and oh so what should be emulated in our society.
This movie was total trash.
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Powerful, Moving, but Not For Everyone
Added 7/22/2009
I find myself wondering if I would have liked this movie so much that I paid full price for it at Borders if it didn't have Sarah Polley starring in it. She's quite simply luminous and yet very, very real. And while I could not see myself not sharing my impending demise with those who I love and love me, I think I can understand why "Ann" (the character Polley plays) did what she did. I think she was someone who had been happily submerged in being a good wife, a dutiful daughter, a loving mother from such an early age (17) that she hadn't lived enough for herself. Ironically, her impending death was her wake-up call to to do just that.
It's this "selfishness" which caused someone else in my family to give up on the movie, the moment they saw Ann ticking off one of the items on her "bucket list" by engaging in a brief, passionate, and bittersweet affair with the lonely young surveyor played by Mark Ruffalo (quite well). But I'd like to think that while what Ann did would be very hard to understand, if I was her husband, I would say, "she went a little crazy when she learned she was going to die but I still love her and her memory." And I'd like to think that if I was her lover, I'd understand and treasure her memory, and maybe say to myself, "I never would have known her otherwise."
And I would like to think that God wouldn't hold a brief spate of selfishness at the end of a good life against all the good things such a person's life had brought to all those who she knew.
And while the movie was shot on a low budget, there are some beautiful moments in it...like when she tells Ruffalo's character that if he doesn't kiss her, she'll scream...and does. Or when her doctor brings her candy for one of her appointments with him because that's what she had asked him for immediately after he first gave her the bad news. Still another is when Ann simply stands in the rain and savors the feeling of it falling on her face, a simple pleasure she never took the time to enjoy until time was something she didn't have.
So I give it five stars for being thought provoking and moving.
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