My Life Without Me

I love this movie!
Watching the movie makes me feel that it's not really that bad if you know when your time will end.
This movie makes me realize that maybe you can do many things and actually enjoy your life while your time is ticking.
In the movie, Ann, a 23-year old mother learns that she has a cancer. She makes a "things to do before dying."
There is a scene where Ann is recording birthday greetings for her two daughters till their 18th birthday and I think it's a good idea. That scene inspires me and for a moment, for that very moment I'm excited about the idea of dying so that I can also do the same. Silly? Yeah, I guess so.
Ummm. I want to have my "things to do before I die" list too. I think it's nice. Maybe I'm just out of my senses....anyway...
Maybe one day, if ever I find out that my time is running out, I'll be braver. I'll rather die first before my loved ones.


So, going back to the movie, there are many scenes that I love.
* In the laundry shop, Lee watches Ann sleeping.
I think that's really so sweet.Okay, so I maybe corny and mushy but well, that was really so sweet for a guy to do that...lol

* There is also this scene when Lee and Ann dance and they are just adorable.

* And also the scene in the car when Ann screams because Lee won't kiss her. I think that was cute and funny.

* And of course when Ann is recording messages for her family, that's really touching.

* The scene when Lee and Ann are waiting for Ann's husband to pick her up and Lee delivers his line. Gosh! That's heart breaking.

I think choosing between two people you love is the hardest decision in life. You can't have them both and it's so heartbreaking because both deserve to be loved and no matter what you do, you know that you'll be hurting the other person.


Memorable Quotes from IMDb
Ann: If you don't kiss me right now I'm gonna scream.
[She screams, he kisses her]
Lee: If you don't kiss me right now, I'm gonna fucking scream.
[She kisses him]

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Ann: Alone. You're alone. You've never been so alone in your whole life.

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Lee: Hey.
Ann: Hi.
Lee: My body hurt thinking you weren't gonna come.
Ann: I wasn't gonna come.
Lee: Well, I'm glad you did.

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Dr. Thompson: Dying is not as easy as it looks, you know, but there's no need for you to have to feel terrible all the time.

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Ann's Mother: It's my birthday. Wish me happy birthday.
Ann: Happy birthday, Mom.

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Ann: No-one's normal, Mom. No such thing as normal people.

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Ann: Now you feel like you wanna take all the drugs in the world, but all the drugs in the world aren't gonna change the feeling that your whole life's been a dream and it's only now that you're waking up.

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Ann: I said thanks, okay? So just drop it.
Ann's Mother: I don't need your thanks.
Ann: Then I'll take them back.

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Ann: Nobody thinks about death in the supermarket.

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[Ann writes in journal]
Ann: THINGS TO DO BEFORE I DIE.
Ann: 1. Tell my daughters I love them several times.
Ann: 2. Find Don a new wife who the girls like.
Ann: 3. Record birthday messages for the girls for every year until they're 18.
Ann: 4. Go to Whalebay Beach together and have a big picnic.
Ann: 5. Smoke and drink as much as I want.
Ann: 6. Say what I'm thinking.
Ann: 7. Make love with other men to see what it's like.
Ann: 8. Make someone fall in love whith me. *deliberate misspelling*
Ann: 9. Go and see Dad in Jail.
Ann: 10. Get false nails. And do something with my hair.

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Lee: Ann, it's something I have to tell you and I have to tell you now.
Ann: Lee, I'm...
Lee: I love you! I'm in love with you... And the world seems less terrible because you exist! I feel like I wanna be with you for the rest of my life... And all that, the palpitations, and the nerves... the pain, the happiness, and the fear! I wanna... I wanna touch you all the times! I wanna take care of you and your girls! And even find your husband a decent job! And get you a house that doesn't have wheels and...
Ann: Careful... That sounds like a classic case of falling in love.
Lee: I am in love... I'm classically in love!

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Ann: [letter] Life is so much better than you think, my love. I know because you managed to fall in love with me even though you saw, what was it, you said 10%? Five maybe? Maybe if you'd seen it all, you wouldn't have liked me. Or you would have liked me in spite of everything. I guess we'll never know...

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Ann: [about the things in the mall] It's just there to try and keep us away from death, and it doesn't work.

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Ann: Without dreams you can't fucking live.

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Ann's Father: Some of us just can't live the kind of life that other people want us to live. No matter how hard you try, you just can't do it.

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Ann's Father: You love someone and you can't make them happy. It's kind of like you love them, but... you can't love them the way they wanna be loved.

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Ann: You pray that this is your life without you.

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[last lines]
Ann: You don't know who or what you're praying to, but you pray. You don't even regret the life that you're not gonna have, because by then you'll be dead. And the dead don't feel anything. Not even regret.

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[last lines]
Ann: [tape to Lee] I loved dancing with you.

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Ann: [off] This is you. Eyes closed, out in the rain. You never thought you'd be doing something like this, you never saw yourself as, I don't know how you'd describe it... Is like one of those people who like looking up at the moon, who spend hours gazing at the waves or the sunset or... I guess you know the kind of people I'm talking about. Maybe you don't. Anyway, you kind of like being like this, fighting the cold, feeling the water seep through your shirt and getting through your skin. And the feel of the ground growing soft beneath your feet. And the smell. And the sound of the rain hitting the leaves. All the things they talked about in the books you haven't read. This is you, who would have guessed it? You.

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