This film largely surrounded one of my favourite topics: imminent death - and what's more, in one of my favourite forms: blameless illness.

The film begins with the protagonist, who I never picked up the name of (played by Joseph Golden Levit) finding out he has a complicated-sounding cancer growing on his spine. He's given a 50/50 chance to survive it.

Here is the first lesson of cancer - don't tell anyone. He makes this mistake early on and worries all his friends and family, making them act weird and annoying. The last thing a dying man needs in this awful world is everyone around him acting more pushy, annoying, emotional and demanding attention like they are the victim. I say when a man knows he is dying, that information shouldn't be apparent to anyone else until he drops dead on the floor of his kitchen and isn't found for 3 months.

Unfortunately for the protagonist, his life takes an even worse turn when it's found out his girlfriend (played by the woman from the Ryan Gosling hit movie La La Land) is cheating on him. Now this film has 2 different women in it, so you have to remember his now-ex girlfriend is the one with red hair, and the other woman has black hair. I struggle to tell women apart, especially when they're both white and about the same age, so it's good the hair colour helps differentiate them.

Thankfully after all this bad news, his friend played by Seth Rogan, whom I never picked up the character name of either, is the most normal person in this whole film because he uses his friend's weakness as an opportunity to get laid - what a guy. This is why the film falls into the fantasy setting for me, though - because the main character gets laid too, even though he's bald by this point. I don't quite understand this because I am not getting laid, and I am merely balding. Is it because of my despicably offputting attitude? No - it's because I'm fat and cursed by gypsies for that time I took out a camp of gypsies one by one in the dead of night. What can I say? I like to party.

Some more film bullshit happens to pad it out to a film length even though all films could be summarised in a 10 minute youtube video, which you could play at 2.5x speed and get it over in 4 minutes, but such is the human condition to suffer needlessly. Most of this time is taken up with him talking to some therapist woman (the one with black hair) played by Zoey D'Channels, with whom a mutual attraction is built up which I'm pretty sure is against the code of practice for patient and doctor, but laws are made to be shagged until you lose your licence.

Next in the film comes his operation - his chemotherapy has not worked, so they need to do a last-ditch effort at the operation. Guess what? He dies. But somehow, he survives, and he goes on a date with the therapist (the woman with black hair).

All in all I think it was a pretty good film, it's just like any film really, various things happened and plot points meandered around to a resolve at the end. Really though I was in the mood for something more depressing where he dies, for it would mirror my desire to be released from this mortal coil without the sin of the creator and judgement of my peers for actively willing it. But hey, good for this guy, he seemed to be making use of his life beyond festering like a forgotten pile of deli meat slowly rotting despite its high salt content.

7/10