Adapted from a true story, as a surprise for the American independent film of the year of release, "Anti-Cancer Me" aptly depicts the young people's unexpected face of life twists and turns, and the state of mind of cancer is quite thorough.
Although the theme is cancer patients, the film does not deliberately promote the story in a sensational way, but instead leads the audience in a flat and straightforward way to watch how this seemingly optimistic and healthy young man, when he is about to face surgery after getting sick, how his outlook on life and life changes.
At first glance, this serious illness seems to lead life to a bad aspect, but this only half chance of survival from surgery is not a life test that prompts you to face it more optimistically and re-establish the status quo by looking back?
The story is based on the real life of the film's screenwriter, Will Lisha, and the protagonist Adam (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is a radio program planner, in a word, a good man with no personality.
His life was not particularly outstanding, but it was not too bad, he had a mother who was wordy and overly concerned about his son, a friend who thought he was humorous and a little, he lived under the same roof with his girlfriend who was engaged in art, and everything in life was so ordinary.
However, one day, he did not smoke or drink alcohol and went to the hospital for examination because of back pain, but found that he had a rare cancer, and he had to go to the hospital for chemotherapy and surgery from time to time, and the chance of complete cure was only about half.
Adam did not believe in normal work and rest, less than thirty years old, he would actually be made a big joke by God, and the more tease of fate was that when he stopped and looked back at his life, he found that in fact, what seemed ordinary and unremarkable needed to be reorganized.
Although the girlfriend will never abandon his company, but this is not the case, the friend has always been a consistent lotte madness, using "cancer" to constantly make jokes about him, and even use this as an excuse to take him to the nightclub.
Adam's counselor is a shallow rookie who can only use theory to persuade him continuously, but the clumsy technique forces Adam to be impetuous, and finally forces him to face a series of life changes that have prompted him to change psychologically.
"Anti-Cancer Me" is not like the general film with the theme of severe illness, with the plot arrangement of the peak loop, prompting the audience to learn to face the facts with a positive attitude after watching the movie, or to grasp the people and things around them more, but to deal with how the protagonist in the film faces this day.
In his life plan, Adam, played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt, does not show much emotion in the first half of the film except for Mr. Good, after all, when a young man faces such a thing, what kind of reaction can he have?
If you compare adam's easy-going and kind personality in daily life, perhaps he can only be calm in the face of cancer, follow the treatment course arranged by the hospital, try to force himself to fight with the crazy fun arranged by the dead party played by Seth Logan to cheer him up and cheer him up, this may be the only solution for him, the behavior that has to be done, many gags in the movie seem meaningless, but in fact, they are all bridges and techniques that lay out the protagonist's state of mind.
As the plot progresses, everything seems to be going well in the process of treating cancer, according to Adam's imagination, the hospital chemotherapy allows him to get acquainted with many silver-haired people who are older but also suffering from cancer, and their life path has actually come to an end, and they naturally have a different understanding of life than before.
The counselor, played by Anna Kendrick, clumsily forces him to face emotions that he does not want to face. When he discovered the infidelity of his girlfriend and the death of his patient, Adam found that in fact, in the face of cancer, he was afraid and uncertain, although he tried to maintain a calm and calm mood, he inevitably avoided his closest friends and relatives around him, completely collapsed when he was alone, and then unloaded his emotional defenses and finally was able to face what happened to him.
"Anti-Cancer Me" focuses on the personal state of mind of the male protagonist, and the interaction with others around him is mostly a catalyst to help him face the world, the film frankly presents the emotional changes of the protagonist, whether it is with others or when facing reality alone, the audience seems to follow the protagonist layer by layer to open the defense wrapped in the inner and outer layers, and expose the most true self.
In fact, after removing those complexities and disturbances, isn't "life" so simple, allowing yourself to feel the impulse and beauty of living? After watching the movie, it may make people love the life that really exists despite the ordinary.