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Very disappointing...

Overrated

It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Many reviewers of this film appear to be giving it 1/10 stars based on the grounds that it was unscientific in its portrayal of medical diagnostic procedures (are people seriously that nerdy that they would over-analyze a fictional story to this extent?), that Ann should not have had a fling with another man, and that the film was too pathetic.Yes, this film is about extremely pathetic people, including Ann herself. But this is not a bad thing. Ann, who got knocked up at seventeen, dropped out of high school and works as a janitor, living in a cramped trailer in her mom's backyard, is about as pathetic as they come, yet after she is diagnosed with cancer and told she only has two months to live, her actions touch the lives of everybody she meets. An estranged father who lives in prison. A painfully shy doctor who has the unfortunate task of giving her a death sentence. A woman obsessed with diets who eats like a cow. A man whose wife has just taken off on him and left him with nothing but the bare bones of an apartment building and stacks of used books. Despite Ann being somewhat pretentious and selfish, she does the most selfless thing by distancing her friends and family from having to watch her die in some hospital bed. For anybody who thinks she should've just sucked it up and spent the rest of her days getting tested and treated like an experiment as she wasted away in front of her own husband and two young children, I ask you to contemplate why you think this would have been better for everyone involved. Instead, she's there for her family until her final moments.As for the brief affair with Lee, I really don't think it was about sex. I think she just wanted to know what being with a mature person was like. Her husband, a twenty-four-year-old high school drop-out who goofs around and builds swimming pools for fast cash, loves Ann but is just as inexperienced as she is. Her entire life she's been trapped in that little mobile home with a depressed mother and a jailed father, continuing a trailer trash cycle and never even having the experience to be anything different - and now she'll never have that chance because she's dying. Lee, an older adult who has traveled the world and is an avid reader, is the closest she can get. Although I was slightly angry at her for almost using his fragile state of recent divorce to have another try at romance, I still don't really consider her actions wrong.One of my favorite parts of this film is the sort of unspoken pact she makes with her doctor, who against better judgment befriends her and enjoys her company although she is dying. Dr. Thompson promises to hold onto her numerous cassette tapes of prerecorded birthday messages for her children, as well as photos of her children, messages for her mom, Don and for Lee as well. Even at the end of the film he remains devoted in this, locking himself in his own office in a state of grief before neatly stacking each cassette tape in order by labeled year to give to her kids. Another character whom Ann connects with is a hairdresser who turns out to be very insecure but talented. Together they form a friendship and Ann attempts to beautify herself but only gets as far as fake nails.I think that's the thing about this film, every character is doing something in life that maybe they weren't meant to do or to be. Every character is insecure. Ann was never meant to be a drop-out living in a trailer, dying at a young age. Her mom was never meant to be some chain-smoking baker who gets drunk all the time. Lee was never meant to be divorced and seeking companionship at a seedy laundromat. Dr. Thompson was never meant for the cold, unsympathetic world of medical work. Yet somehow all these characters end up in Ann's life, and somehow they all learn from her.This film as I said is definitely not perfect by any means, nor does it have to be. Personally I find things like Silence of the Lambs to be hugely overrated and stupid, but that's just me I guess. I prefer films about humanity, regardless of a couple of slip-ups in the way a fictional medical procedure is carried out or an affair between two lovers used as a plot device. If you're the type of person who picks through everything you watch with a fine-toothed comb, this isn't the kind of film for you. If not, I recommend it strongly.

This one has all the mood music and static shots of the typical tear jerker, but it doesn't have a character you can really care that much about. I suppose the point is that she decides to live for herself for the first time in her life. The thing is, though, that her home life is shown as being pretty great. She's not abused or mistreated or taken for granted. Her husband and children are great. So it makes some of her actions kind of hard to understand or bear with.I didn't get as involved as I expected to. Not being able to feel the character's emotions so much made the movie feel melodramatic and over- the-top. It never reaches the heights it aims for, despite the talents of Polley, Ruffalo, Plummer, and Alfred Molina in a great, small role.

it is a special film. because it has science to became, in a strange form, a kind of memory. a crumb from your life. cause - it is a pure honest movie. good actors. gentle script. universal story. it may be a soup for soul. but it has courage to be more. only a picture. without any extravagance or pink message. a woman. her existence. her family. her decision. nothing more. it is a film out of descriptions, reviews or critics. because it is itself. like an ice cube. like fly of a bird. like a meeting at a rock show. it is a touching experience. not moralistic or philosophic. only a testimony about ordinary choice. and new occasion to understand the form of love roots. nothing else. nothing more.but it is so beautiful !

"It's better to forget, than to remember me and cry." - The Cure Isabel Coixet's "My Life Without Me" stars Sarah Polley as a hard working mother who learns that she has but a few months left to live. Polley keeps her impending death from her kids and husband, and begins instead to write and record a series of notes and tapes for her family. Through this material she hopes to "be with them" long after she has passed away. Polley's impending demise is mirrored to the lives of various other characters, including her own mother. Though these characters are alive, they wade through life like the walking dead, treading water in a world rife with pain, disappointment and morbid suffocation. Elsewhere Polley spends her last months indulging in various experiences, most notably an adulterous love affair with a character played by Mark Ruffalo.Polley and Ruffalo - two underrated actors - are as powerful as they often are, and the film contains a number of neat little moments which are sensitively directed and well acted. The film's overall plot, though, is well worn. It's hard to elevate material like this, or take it interesting, new places. The film's sentimental and predictable and the cast, who are often wonderfully raw, deserve much better.7.5/10 – Worth one viewing.