So you think you can bear its weight?

Rating: 8/10 (16 January 2012)

I'm recently passed through a surgery to remove 2 herniated discs (at 21y), what is nothing compared to a cancer, but from this simple thing I could have a bit of an idea about how people who surrounds you can deal with it, and they suck with it. The movies told you that perfectly.
Well balanced between comedy and drama, 50/50 shows the fragility of life when you think you're having a problems free one. Everything's OK, you go to work, you laugh with your friends, f**k your girlfriend and then, out of the blue, you have to accept you can die from one of the worst diseases a human being can have. The cancer. The movie makes you think if that happen to you how would you react, "who would stay at your side?" "who would fake you're OK?" "who would lie to make you feel comfortable?". Sometimes who's at your side can't bear the weight like you do.
Adam (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) its the 50% drama while Kyle (Seth Rogen) is the other part, fulfilled with black humor jokes, always trying to be the best friend to Adam, and so speak, the only one who can really pass throughout the disease without making Adam go down in tears and self-pity.
Ketherine (Anna Kendrick) interprets a young psychiatrist, who has to treat a complicated patient, giving that she just started working at a clinic and has no much idea about what to say to him.
The others actors and characters doesn't get much of our attention, except for Alan (Philip Baker Hall), a old men who's being treat from cancer at the same hospital as Adam and will certainly makes you laugh.
The soundtrack is almost missed along the movie, and some characters are design to not know how to express themselves, witch leave some scenes with a "lack of dialog" and you'll be willing to speak for them.
Watch 50/50 trying to put yourself in Adams situation to see how life would look from your point of view. And see how fragile life is, doesn't matter how much solid things are.