March 5, 2012

  • 50/50

    I rented the movie "50/50" yesterday.  This is the one with Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Seth Rogen, where JGL's character gets cancer.  Lots of awards and talk of JGL possibly getting an Oscar nomination.  I can tell you right now, JGL SHOULD have been nominated.  I think it's a real shame that he was NOT nominated.

    I knew this movie would be tough at times, after all it's dealing with cancer.  There was also a LOT of comedy throughout, with Anjelica Huston, Bryce Dallas Howard and Anna Kendrick really adding to the mix.  But the thing I did not expect was the reaction I had to one part.

    After watching this character go through chemotherapy and realizing my Mom went through the same, that was tough.  But then there was his father who seemed to be dealing with Alzheimer's.  They never really out and out said it, but Anjelica Huston, who played JGL's mother, was taking care of her husband diligently and driving JGL's character a little crazy with her mothering.  It was a scene near the end of the movie where JGL's character told his father he loved him that I lost it.

    It reminded me of my Dad in his last stage of Parkinson's and I started sobbing - really shaking with sobs - and had to stop the movie.  What I also didn't expect was my dog's reaction to it.

    Oh yes, I got a dog.  His name is Fazio.  Got him from Ohio Aussie Rescue.  They think he's half Aussie Shepherd and half Catahoula (I had to look up Catahoula, too, because I'd never heard of it).  Fazio was the name he already had and it suits him, so I kept it.  This goofball dog makes me laugh - even when he's being bad.

    So I'm sitting there in my recliner just bawling my eyes out, just sobbing and Fazio comes over and puts one paw on my knee and gently reaches the other paw toward my chest and puts his forehead up against my forehead - which makes me lose it even more that he just KNEW I needed some lovin'.

    So very glad I have this dog in my life!