SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped

SnoReptilePlenty Memorable, crazy movie

GazerRise Fantastic!

Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

brightsides Just watched this film for the first time last night. I am continually amazed by the acting chops of both Sarah Polley and Mark Ruffalo. She has the difficult task in this movie, as in one of her other films, The Sweet Hereafter, of portraying someone who has a difficult decision to make. Not necessarily that she makes the right choice by society's standards, but it is HER choice to make. She plays a loving mother, wife and daughter who, at 24, receives the most tragic news about her health. Because of her choice to keep it a secret she is faced with processing this tragic blow without support from family or friends. One can only imagine the difficulty in going about you day to day life with this knowledge and the stress of keeping it hidden. But in doing so she is able to have an experience she feels she missed out on because of her station in life, having children so young and being married to their dad. Her husband talks about taking the family on a beach vacation as they never get out much (most likely due to financial reasons).He tells her "You never complain", then kisses her neck. It's the tender moments like these between husband and wife, and later with her lover, that bring a sense of yearning to the film. The film captures the lives of those that fall through the cracks of life, they are not rich or beautiful, just hard working folks struggling to make ends meet, dealing the cards they've been dealt.

Esswasim Well yes the movie can be fun to watch but hey what is this director into? A woman with cancer stage 4, well she seems perfectly fine to me in whole movie and in fact very selfishly portrayed character, has a very loving and caring husband and she decides to have sex with other men to know how it feels, and she in fact falls in love with another guy, oh come on she is not a good example, I think if we know we will die in 2 months, the first thing is we will want to be as much good to our family as possible and here we have this young lady betraying her husband which is epic in my opinion, she has 2 lovely daughters a lovely husband and a very decent mother, I think she wants everyone feel the pain or maybe she is too dumb to know that they will feel more pain, the way she recorded all those tapes to remind them of her in future...ROFL I didn't feel any sympathy for her even if she was dying and reason is she started betraying her own family, her husband mainly and her daughters, moreover I wanted her to die faster cuz I was worried what if her husband found out she is doing it with another guy, that would have been disastrous for that poor husband lol, he would have died before her. Anyway I don't know what more to say , ppl may have different opinions but I think any man living would never want such a wife and never show any sympathy to such woman, even if we know there are millions of wives who cheat behind their husbands. It sucks and movie sucks too.

ajy513 How can a woman that has a great husband, cheats him just because to know how it feels?!!!!!!!!!its an insult to humanity and specially the value of family and marriage.(even if you don't see the religious part of it and the great guilt) for those who says that she married so young and had not enjoy her life,i am asking you is it a good excuse?did they make her to marry him? when she accepted to be with him for her whole life,how she can betray him and give herself to another guy?(besides that she love the other guy if it was only because of fun how she feel in love?) god damn this woman And something to the people who liked this part of movie(i mean cheating of the main character) if you really stand by her side , i wish that your husband or wife(if you are married an if you are not married your future one) betray you as she did just because she (or he) found it fun and her right to be with another person so then you will understand how does it feel. Something i really hate that the film tries to convince you that she is a selfless and is sacrificing for her family. what a great job! what will her children know about what she did to their dad?what about her husband? do they thank her because of that? i really doubt abut it!!!! And for the ones who giver her right because she is dying i ask you how many people in this world know that they will die soon ?(because of cancer or something else)all of them must cheat and go for their fantasies and desires and ignore the ones who loves her? i mean if you give her right so i can say" i will die some day soon or late. so why not go for my desires and ignore all the people.so i will rob a bank because of fun and i sleep with married men and ... after all i am dying and i must enjoy my life!!!) how stupid and selfish.This ugly picture of the cheating destroy the whole film. i give this movie 1 from 10 just because there is no zero!!!

lourensini If it wasn't for the camera style, I'd give it an eight. This is a personal matter of taste: I hate constantly trembling cameras and that's why i won't rate this movie 8.My Life Without Me is a drama, but it doesn't reach the "depressive point". It stays somewhere between Sad and "cold winters night". Then, the feelings You'll get watching probably won't be like watching Requiem for a Dream.My Life without me has an interesting character besides the main one. And Im talking about Laurie (amanda plumer) and she's obsession about diets and calories. What is kinda rare to see in movies, but the problem is a failure to explain (even using few words) why she has it. Good acting, soundtrack and photography are obfuscated by the constant moving camera. Why doest directors use a tripod? Is the objective make us feeling like near the actors, spying them? that sucks.Another issue (can I call this an issue?) when Ann receives the new that she has a cancer and probably Will die from it is she doesn't care that much. Doesn't cry, doesn't scream, doesn't anything. It looked like she was already thinking about what to do even before have got that cancer found. This lack of emotion ain't nothing like someone whose just got a cancer diagnosis. It ain't real, it doesn't even look human.My Life Without me is an great movie. It makes s question how really would be our companions lifes without us. And if you haven't asked yourself yet. Watch and then you'll do it.