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Chemotherapy's side effects were awful!


Talking about the cure being worse than the illness!

The vomiting/sweating/shaking scenes were really hard to look at. And the way they were filmed was particularly strong: steadicam for the majority of scenes but with some instances where they used shaky-cam (when Julian Roberts went running to follow the poor guy to the bathroom, for example). You really feel the anxiety and desperation of everything.

I watched this movie really small (6 years old) and I thought that cancer caused you all that horrible stuff (I was wrong, it's the cure that poisons you!). I also was shocked at that age; I think I developed emetophobia from this, LOL.

Was anyone else freaked out by these scenes?

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