A movie whose praise runs far and wide; it will be remembered

Rating: 8/10 (19 January 2012)

At the recent Golden Globes Awards, the movie was nominated for best film (comedy or musical) and best actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt. The movie is very well rated by all the usual sources and if you read a few of the reviews by other users, you'll get how much this movie has touched the audience. It is very safe to say it will be a highly recommended movie for quite some time.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt is an accomplished actor who, at the age of 30, has a filmography of 62 movies; with that number of movies under your belt, you 'gotta' have something to show for it and he does. If you've seen "Killshot" or "The Lookout" or "G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra" or "Inception" you have seen the diverse characters this actor can play. He plays his role as Adam in this movie with very convincing performances at all moments, the funny ones as well as the serious and heart wrenching ones. The writing was superb and it must have been a delight for Gordon-Levitt. His co-star or supporting actor if one sees it that way, Seth Rogen who plays Kyle, does a fine job at doing what he does best: look and sound sincere. This actor has now a following, one that has grown year after year. He has a certain popular appeal to his generation and the one right after and just beyond. Though he has been in 40 or so movies, and some were flops, he is remembered for the good ones; luckily for him they outnumber the not so good ones. I like him; there's just something about his voice that stands out, case in point "Paul" a comedy I really enjoyed. Anna Kendrick, who plays Katherine, delivers a performance as endearing as her performance in "Up in the Air"; that was another great choice by the director (if he had anything to do with it).
The storyline of this movie is a serious one, nothing really funny about it, and it has a message we can all learn from; the comedy was necessary to make us watch and stay till the end. The writing and directing was successful in doing just that, keep us in our seat when we see hard and truly sad moments and even when we know more are yet to come. The movie could have had a variety of endings and it would not matter; everything prior to the scene of the surgery was all that made us laugh and cry and the parts that we will remember, the ones about people that matter. It is a very good movie.