Reflection Of The Bucket List

As a teenager I often forget how to measure time, aside from having time management problems; I don’t ever think about the concept of time in its actuality. I feel as if I am not a slave to time but instead that time runs at my hand. It is easy to get lost in the quick paced world we inhabit and remain in the fast lane to the point where we feel invincible, almost immortal. I have never truly thought about death. Truth be told I do not think that very many people in our time ponder death or question when the end of their lives will come. This is especially true for the millennial generation; death always seems to be something bad that happens to others but never to one’s own personal circle. The Bucket List seems to prove that death comes at the most unexpected moments and that the life we are living is the only one, the only chance we have to do, to experience, to grow, to live in the moment and live as we want so that when the end does come we may have no regrets but know who we were, what we stood for, and what we leave behind. In this film review, I will apply communication …show more content…
Friendship as define in Chapter seven is, “…a close and caring relationship between two people that is perceived as mutually satisfying and beneficial…” (O’Hair 184). In the beginning of the film Carter and Edward are assumed to be as different as can be having only in common a near death. As the film progresses, however, the viewer begins to see similarities between both men, most interestingly in how their relationship develops. Edward and Carter’s friendship is extraordinary in that moth men knew nothing about the other and yet in the span of a few months became closer than the viewer could have imagined. Their trip in completing their bucket list led them to understand the other in ways that no one else could understand