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I also had the opportunity to watch Five, a movie raising awareness about breast cancer, at Cineco last week thanks to Ford’s Pink Warriors … my only mistake was I forgot to bring the tissues.
Although it was a tearjerker, there were also comical elements in the five interconnected short films, which attempted to show the emotional turmoil encountered by breast cancer patients.
The first film, Charlotte, directed by Demi Moore, is set in a 1960s home where a young mother who is dying from breast cancer is shielding the truth from her daughter Pearl.
As Charlotte ends, in comes Mia, directed by Jennifer Aniston. It tells the story of a woman who has stage four cancer and prepares for death.
Penelope Spheeris’ Cheyanne follows with a young woman whose career, as well as marriage, depends on her breasts and unfortunately, she suffers from the disease.
Alicia Keys manages to inspire a moving film, and possibly the best of the lot, in Lili. She explores the relationship between a daughter and her mother when she announces she’s undergoing a lumpectomy.
Five comes full circle with Patty Jenkins’ Pearl. The audience are introduced to Pearl as Charlotte’s daughter, and the oncologist who has helped treat Mia, Cheyanne and Lili. Pearl is diagnosed with cancer and must go through the same battle that killed her mother.
At the end, a Warriors in Pink scarf was handed out to everyone in the theatre, which I suitably used to dry my eyes.
