Just now Derek, James and me went to watch the movie "The Bucket List". At first, i was very skeptical on the movie as James told me the overview of it. It don't sound very exciting at first and franky speaking, i was not very keen on the idea of watching it. Well, let see the synopsis of the movie and determine yourseld whether is it a nice show worth your time watching or not.
Academy Award winners Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman star in the
comedy drama "The Bucket List," directed by Rob Reiner, a touching,
no-holds-barred adventure that shows it's never too late to live life
to its fullest.
A long time ago, Carter Chambers' (Morgan Freeman) freshman year
philosophy professor suggested that his students compose a "bucket
list," a collection of all the things they wanted to do, see and
experience in life before they kicked the bucket.
But while Carter was still trying to define his private dreams and
plans, reality intruded. Marriage, children, myriad responsibilities
and, ultimately, a 46-year job as an auto mechanic gradually turned his
concept of a bucket list into little more than a bittersweet memory of
lost opportunities and a mental exercise he occasionally thought about
to pass the time while working under the hood of a car.
Meanwhile, corporate billionaire Edward Cole (Jack Nicholson) never saw
a list without a bottom line. He was always too busy making money and
building an empire to think about what his deeper needs might be beyond
the next big acquisition or cup of gourmet coffee.
Then life delivered an urgent and unexpected wake-up call to both of
them.
Carter and Edward found themselves sharing a hospital room with plenty
of time to think about what might happen next--and about how much of
that was in their hands. For all their apparent differences, they soon
discovered they had two very important things in common: an unrealized
need to come to terms with who they were and the choices they'd made,
and a pressing desire to spend the time they had left doing everything
they ever wanted to do.
The list wasn't just a mental exercise anymore. It was an agenda.
So, against doctor's orders and all good sense, these two virtual
strangers check themselves out of the hospital and hit the road
together for the adventure of a lifetime--from the Taj Mahal to the
Serengeti, the finest restaurants to the seediest tattoo parlors, the
cockpit of vintage race cars to the open door of a prop plane--with
just a sheet of paper and their passion for life to guide them.
Adding and crossing items off their list while taking in the grandeur
and beauty of the world, they will grapple with the difficult questions
and the even more difficult answers that plague all of us. And, without
even realizing it, become true friends. With humor, insight,
heart...and a fair amount of attitude.
Sometimes you just need a deadline to get your life in gear.
In my opinion, this is a good show with a nice plot to it. It showcase the human nature in which one will have to go throught when one knew that death is just months away. It also allow one self to think what is important in life and whether the life that one have right now is really the life that one wants the most. The fact remain, that one should always ask yourseld whether the think that one do is the think that one like to do or even dream of doing. Most of the time, one only realise that what they hold the dearest is not necessary be the think that they truly wanted. In most case, for example, people who think that making more money is the one and only think that they wanted but when the time come for them to meet their maker, they would reflect on the life that they live to be a life of loneliness. Nowadays, people are always too buzy to enjoy life and also not knowing what is the true meaning to being alive.
In my conclusion, i think we should sometime slow down and enjoy life then rather regretting in the later part of the years when it's really too late. Don't you think so?
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