My Favourite Canadian Movie: One Week

One Week is one of my favorite movies. In the movie, Ben Tyler, played by Canadian actor Joshua Jackson, has been diagnosed with cancer. Foregoing his required treatment, he instead decides to take a motorcycle trip from Toronto across Canada to Vancouver Island. (I took part of that inspiring trip myself and made a photography book about it.) Along the way, he meets several people that help him reevaluate his relationship with his fiancée, his job, and his dream of becoming a writer. In dealing with cancer, Ben’s chance of survival is limited, but, as his doctor says, when you’re dealing with individuals, you have to throw the numbers out. In the end of the movie, the same is said about relationships. It doesn’t matter how high or low divorce rates or cancer survival rates are, when you’re dealing with individuals you have to consider the chance that those individuals beat the odds and make it through.

Judging by the daunting numbers and other bad press about marriage and relationship…