The story is about two middle aged men being told they had at the most a year left to live because of cancer and their chances of remission was at best- slim. So before they entering the pearly gates as its sometimes known as, they set out to accomplish or see or do something worth while before that time comes. And what really sold the movie to me was a part right near the end of the movie.
The way the sermon goes at C7, it didn't feel like it was anywhere near the end but anyways still had to buy it because of a scene.
The two men Carter (Morgan Freeman) and Edward (Jack Nicholson), both from very different backgrounds. Carter was a car mechanic and Edward was a corporate billionaire and the very hospital he laid in was one of his monopoly. So having spent x amount of days at hospital, they begin to communicate with each other, they didn't get off to the best of starts as Edward was wanting a private room, but had to settle with sharing a room with Carter. As the days passed they got to know each other and they started small, playing cards with each other.
Anyways one night Carter began to "scribble", as he put it, a list of things he wants to do before he passes. A "bucket list" as its known, why? its phrase to kick the bucket i.e. your life. Kick the (your life), accepting defeat in the quest to live...... i think. But if i'm correct in remember, Carter begins to write a few things do before being informed of some bad news, to which he throws the list on the ground.
Tom (Sean Hayes) who is Edward's assistant finds this list as he was picking up rubbish from the floor and Edward asks to see it as he recognises it as the paper that Carter was "scribbling" on. And when he sees this, the things that Carter has written on it seem a bit mundane compared to the crazy fun stuff Edward has in mind of doing, like skydiving. So the two of them decide to get together to achieve their desires before they die.
Things like: driving a mustang, see the world, all sorts of things but the one thing which topped the whole movie for me was the desire to:
"Kiss the most beautiful girl in the world"
Immediately you'd think of the most hot celebrity there is, and I'm no different. I'm still thinking who'd celebrity wise I'd wanna kiss.
But as the film meanders to an end, Carter loses the battle, while Edward somehow manages to win the fight. In doing so, he has great respect for the man who as he said gave him the best months of his life, in the few months they had known each other.
Something which I hadn't mentioned up until now is that Edward has a daughter, however communication between the two has been long gone but Carter before he died, wanted Edward to find his daughter and to salvage the relationship which to his credit Edward did, but had Carter not died, would the story end the way it did.
Anyways the name of this entry is "Who is the most beautiful girl in the world?"
As I've said, the desire to kiss the most beautiful girl in the world was on the bucket list, and as Edward saw his daughter for the first time in a very long time, he was introduced to his granddaughter to which he hadn't been aware of. He gave her a kiss and embraced her. Thereafter the picture is of him scoring out "kiss the most beautiful girl in the world".
I have been thinking ever since the movie? Who should be the most beautiful girl in my life?
Would it be my Girlfriend?
Would it be my Wife?
Would it be my Daughter?
Would it be my Granddaughter?
Tough one eh?
But in context of the movie, its fitting how he should meet his granddaughter and then score "kiss the most beautiful girl in the world" out.
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