Movie review 50/50
The drama of the disease is treated in a comic mode “50/50″ featuring the excellent actors Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Seth Rogen. A gamble is won hands down.
The young journalist Adam (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) learns that he is suffering from a rare disease. It has a 50% chance to get out alive. Abandoned by his girlfriend (Bryce Dallas Howard), but encouraged by his best friend that the hormones in the carpet (Seth Rogen), his mother (Anjelica Huston) and his inexperienced therapist (Anna Kendrick), it clings to the hope available to him.
This topic has been discussed many times in a melodramatic fashion, with a lot of violins and good feelings. The director Jonathan Levine (who has offered in the past the friendly “The Wackness”) decided to swim against the tide of this trend by offering significant challenges. The film will be treated with humor. A decision that could have easily turned against the filmmaker. It was only a gag or a misplaced pun falls flat and the production becomes inoperative, a big farce and offensive.
This is fortunately not the case. All this is possible thanks to the situations that are very realistic. The script written by Will Reiser is very true. A hint at how much detail he has been there and treatment is constantly smiling despite its poignant theme. The staging is not significant in showing off the musical choices respect the tone of the whole (there is even a superb piece of The Antlers) and the final will not leave anyone indifferent as nothing and no one can stop this flow of tears.
The subtle and honest interpreters constantly nourished the project. Joseph Gordon-Levitt is one of the most promising young actors of his generation and he finds a role for gold to excel. He manages to avoid the facial expressions and stereotypes, sailing like a fish in water when it is in therapy with older people or he is trying to understand what is happening. It is powered by positive energy from the luminous Anna Kendrick, the hateful Bryce Dallas Howard and performance totally sweet Seth Rogen. As much as she could irritate at first, as she finds the right tone here, becoming both an engine of laughter and a vector of emotion.
Pretty dramatic comedy that surprises with its mix of genres and distribution of diverse horizon which all its members play in unison, “50-50″ remains one of the most intelligent and subtle 2011 American films. A nice surprise that can only be good to see.
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