My life without me, but with my dreams.
Ann, 23 years old, lives a modest life with her two kids and her husband in a trailer in her mother's garden. Her life takes a dramatic turn, when her doctor tells her that she has uterine cancer and only two months to live. She compiles a list of things to do before she dies, arranges her family life and falls in love to a lonely man she met in a Laundromat. In the end, it didn’t show she is dead, but one of the possible her life without her, of course, in an extremely wonderful way.
This is a real movie: beautifully cinematographed shooting the Vancouver’s black-white-like winter in the beginning and vivid life in the end, breeze-like music just like Antarctic winter humid wind scratching your face, Sarah Polley spontaneous performance, Mark Ruffalo’s down-to-earth characters (BTW it is sad to see him in Hollywood’s silly movies like Just Like Heaven, Suddenly 30), the clear structure of the movie taking you to the last dramatic journey of Ann’s life. This movie reminds us how many possibilities are in our life and how beautiful our lives are.
When Ann found out she only had 2 months left, she just wrote down:
THINGS TO DO BEFORE I DIE.
Ann, 23 years old, lives a modest life with her two kids and her husband in a trailer in her mother's garden. Her life takes a dramatic turn, when her doctor tells her that she has uterine cancer and only two months to live. She compiles a list of things to do before she dies, arranges her family life and falls in love to a lonely man she met in a Laundromat. In the end, it didn’t show she is dead, but one of the possible her life without her, of course, in an extremely wonderful way.
This is a real movie: beautifully cinematographed shooting the Vancouver’s black-white-like winter in the beginning and vivid life in the end, breeze-like music just like Antarctic winter humid wind scratching your face, Sarah Polley spontaneous performance, Mark Ruffalo’s down-to-earth characters (BTW it is sad to see him in Hollywood’s silly movies like Just Like Heaven, Suddenly 30), the clear structure of the movie taking you to the last dramatic journey of Ann’s life. This movie reminds us how many possibilities are in our life and how beautiful our lives are.
When Ann found out she only had 2 months left, she just wrote down:
THINGS TO DO BEFORE I DIE.
1. Tell my daughters I love them several times.
2. Find Don a new wife who the girls like.
3. Record birthday messages for the girls for every year until they're 18.
4. Go to Whalebay Beach together and have a big picnic.
5. Smoke and drink as much as I want.
6. Say what I'm thinking.
7. Make love with other men to see what it's like.
8. Make someone fall in love with me.
9. Go and see Dad in Jail.
10. Get false nails. And do something with my hair.
She got it done one by one: She started to learn Chinese; she went to hairdresser and manicure; she sit inside the car to record her word to her daughters on each of their birthday with tears; finally before she met Lee (Mark Ruffalo), she was so tired from all night working and fell into sleep; thank director and screenplay writer to let Lee see her and fall in love with her.
From the beginning to the end, I was holding my tear to see Ann go through the tough time. Except her doctor who gave her candy every time, no one actually helped her, shared her suffering, or gave her any support. Facing to the lose of her life, she was like a kid who lost her toys, complaining life wasn’t fair to her, tearing to her beloved doctor. When the movie is going on, we found she wasn’t just little dying woman with all the girly wishes, she had a big heart for her love: loving her husband and daughters, loving her mum and dad even though he was in jail, loving her friend, and above all she was loving her life even it is not wonderful, not successful, not wealthy, not decent (her family were living in the caravan). That was all her got, that was her life, and she loved it as gift from the heaven. Between giving and receiving, she chose both—she asked for love and also gave a lot of love.
She is real and beautiful woman, maybe weak to the death and difficulty, maybe selfish when desire and lust came to her, she doesn’t have a decent education, a good job, a livable home, a stylish dress and hair. But she has a warm heart, she knows how to love, and she is so real and so beautiful.
She got it done one by one: She started to learn Chinese; she went to hairdresser and manicure; she sit inside the car to record her word to her daughters on each of their birthday with tears; finally before she met Lee (Mark Ruffalo), she was so tired from all night working and fell into sleep; thank director and screenplay writer to let Lee see her and fall in love with her.
From the beginning to the end, I was holding my tear to see Ann go through the tough time. Except her doctor who gave her candy every time, no one actually helped her, shared her suffering, or gave her any support. Facing to the lose of her life, she was like a kid who lost her toys, complaining life wasn’t fair to her, tearing to her beloved doctor. When the movie is going on, we found she wasn’t just little dying woman with all the girly wishes, she had a big heart for her love: loving her husband and daughters, loving her mum and dad even though he was in jail, loving her friend, and above all she was loving her life even it is not wonderful, not successful, not wealthy, not decent (her family were living in the caravan). That was all her got, that was her life, and she loved it as gift from the heaven. Between giving and receiving, she chose both—she asked for love and also gave a lot of love.
She is real and beautiful woman, maybe weak to the death and difficulty, maybe selfish when desire and lust came to her, she doesn’t have a decent education, a good job, a livable home, a stylish dress and hair. But she has a warm heart, she knows how to love, and she is so real and so beautiful.
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