Hey Lovelies, 

Back during the award season I watched the film ‘Cake and was automatically amazed by the performance by Jennifer Aniston within the film, as she has definitely given a career changing performance in this role, that no one will be able to forget it for a long time. 

The film follows Claire, who is played by Aniston, a woman that is suffering a chronic amount of pain who begins a relationship with a widower that causes her to take a look at the way in which life and death impact each other and the emotional rollercoaster in which they both cause. 

Throughout the film, the whole thing that is in your mind as a viewer is the way in which Aniston is playing out the role and the difference in which she is presenting to anything she has ever played before. This role allows her to get a chance to shine on screen and her career has been given a huge boost by this role. 

You feel for her from the moment the film begins and you want to know everything about her as she starts her journey within it. She is a different character and her exploration is one that will stick with you all for a very long time, once you finish watching it. 

She is stripped bare in this film and is made to display the emotions of a character who is going to become a film character that many will remember and hopefully will be the character that Aniston is remembered for when people look at her film work. 

However it isn’t just her character that is incredible in the film, but also that of the supporting cast including Anna Kendrick and Sam Worthington, who both add interesting elements to the film, as they give it the twists and turns in which are needed. Worthington’s widow character is such a delicate man and the way in which Kendrick’s suicide is played out on screen is very careful and takes the subject and treats it in a beautifully fragile manner. 

The cinematography of the film is very simple and the way in which the filmmakers have played out the on screen action is not very different to anything we have seen before, but it is not an issue and is in fact a likable quality for the nature of this film. Each moment that the character shares feels like it needs this delicate camera work and not some high paced over the top shots that could spoil the whole feel of it easily. 

All of which I think has been done by the director to allow us to see a kind of fly on the wall view of Claire’s life and the relationships she has with the people that surround her. You feel like you shouldn’t be watching this characters life unfold in the way it does, but you can’t stop watching and the director doesn’t want you to, because you learn something about yourself through her, by the end of it. 

There is something about this film that makes you happy and also sad, and I think that is all down to Aniston’s character and the amazing performance in which she gives in this film. It would have been incredible to have seen her pick up a handful of awards for this film, because she really deserves them and as a viewer I hope that these are the films that she continues to tackle or the characters at least, because this is where her true potential lies. 

This is why I am giving this film more than a slice of cake with this…