EXTREMELY INTELLECTUAL, MUST be Prepared to Think, NOT Just be Entertained!

Rating: 8/10 (18 March 2019)

I went into this movie with no real "expectations" per se, as I'd never seen the ads on tv for it. In my divorce in 2013, pretty much EVERYTHING in the house "disappeared." Even now with a tv, we just prefer movies to the sadness and negativity of news and topic shows. I'd seen 2 of my favorite actors were in it, and decided to give it a chance! Now in all fairness, I have an IQ in the top 1% of the world, when I was younger the schools brought in Mensa to test me. You'll understand why this is important for me to tell you as we get into this next section.
This is a story of a great love between a man and a woman and the man's devotion being so deep and real that he loses track of maybe what's most important in his quest to save her life. There are two plots in this movie. Think of it as parallel dimensions. In the real world, the wife is dying of cancer and the husband is a cancer researcher. He is so committed to finding a cure that he is literally spending every waking moment at the lab and away from her.
When one starts talking about the parallel dimension, that is where things get very confusing and convoluted. I wish I had written this review right after I saw the movie. Because I am extremely disabled and I am on medication that makes me forget things. But if memory serves, in the parallel dimension it is a man and a tree. And the man so loves the tree that he's constantly with the tree and nurturing the tree but the tree bark is damaged by disease. So he starts peeling away the bark and eating it! That's just kind of sickness to me. You're in love with this tree like you would be a spouse, and it's week and the bark is dying, so you peel it off and eat it? You're going to take your Lover's flesh and eat it that's true sickness. But yeah this movie gets really confusing really fast and it was a very touching loving movie, it had me crying but half the time I didn't even understand what was going on and as I said I have a very high IQ and I love things that challenge me and make me think, but this movie Just had too many questions and the twist in the ending was just really unsatisfactory. I'm giving it a high rating because this cinematography is amazing! The actors are incredible! Literally perfect for their parts! Most of the script is really good but the parts that are bad are really bad and it resonates even in the good stuff it's sort of a disease that just stinks in in like a bad gift just keeps on giving. Definitely don't watch this movie if you are looking for something to entertain you, watch it only if you seriously want a challenge and want your brain to hurt and be stressed out. If that's the case then this is a really good movie.