It takes a lot to make me cry during a movie and well 50/50 did just that. The last time I watched a movie about a cancer patient I bawled my eyes out but it was mainly because it really struck a chord with me. I have a very close family friend who died because of cancer. She and my mom were best friends and seeing my mom cry as well as seeing our family friend suffering at the hands of cancer was very hard. The movie I watched before really showed the pain and suffering that people with cancer go through. Anytime I see that it really hits me because I can’t imagine what it would be like to personally go through that. This movie however did not make me cry as much as the other one did. In fact I really liked this movie a lot because it did an excellent job of highlighting society’s error in approaching the topic of cancer in a comedic way. Whenever anyone finds out that someone has cancer their behavior towards that person immediately changes whether they realize it or not. We treat the person like a child and we look at them like they are completely helpless. Having cancer does not make you any less of a normal functioning human and we should treat them as we normally would. I realized that I myself have done and said some of those things that the movie calls out as being rather dumb and insensitive. We think we are helping the person when in fact by treating them differently for having cancer we are not helping them at all. It is nice to see a movie that is able to bring up these ideas and make you think about important topics like this while also being entertaining. I am really glad that I decided to attend this event.