Guest Blogger: Jenna 2

The bucket list is a great example of a character driven movie. Corporate billionaire Edward Cole and mechanic Carter Chambers have nothing in common except for the fact that they both have terminal illnesses. They share a hospital room and escape and do everything on their bucket lists before they die. Throughout their journey they find out who they really are as people and build an amazing friendship together. Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman are the main actors in the film and they both do an amazing job. Morgan Freeman plays Carter Cole, he has a family and works as a mechanic, but he is extremely intelligent. Jack Nicholson plays Edward Cole who owns many hospitals and is very successful in life. Edward is also very cocky and sarcastic while Carter is practical and cautious. I think the theme in the movie is to live each day like you won’t see it again because one simple thing can change your life and you could be dead. You can’t take anything for granted or think something won’t happen to you because it could happen to anyone. I agree with critic Andrea Tuccillo when she says the travel locations aren’t done well and look ‘laughably fake” because they do. But I disagree when she says it’s a bad story because I think it has a great plot. I also disagree with Roger Ebert when he says it has a bad plot to it. I think that this movie shows what two people would do if they had the chance to do anything before they died and most people don’t get the chance to do these things so I think this film showed them well. This movie had a great story line, with sad and happy parts, and an extremely sad ending, overall I would say it’s worth your time and money.