Before You Kick The Bucket...

The Bucket List – Movie Review
The DVD cover was so beautiful that it captured my attention. I feel that it will be a shared feeling of all those who like good actors from Hollywood. I am referring to my favs Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman.
I admired Jack Nicholson in About Schmidt. Through his outstanding performance as the retired and widowed Mr Schmidt, he filled me with the feeling of catharsis. The humane part of the movie, when Schmidt sends 20 dollars to help a boy in Tanzania is touchy. At the end of the movie when he returns from his daughter who gets married against his wish, he finds a letter from this boy who thanks him for the little support he provided. I think that this scene is the purple patch of the movie.
Morgan Freeman became my fav actor in the year 2001 when the movie 'Driving Miss Daisy' was used as a visual text in Loyola, Chennai to teach English. It was a humble beginning but it soon developed into a deep admiration for one of the best actors that I have seen. I would like to quote the words of Mr Rick from Casablanca here “I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship". Thus started my lovely screen bonding with Morgan Freeman. I like him for his voice which he has used in Million Dollar Baby and Swashank Redemption. I am yet to listen to him in the academy award winning documentary – The March of The Penguins.
So it was true cinematic moment when these two actors came on the silver screen together in this movie which tells us to close our eyes and open our hearts. This is the story of two terminally ill patients who is given 6 months of life on this planet. They decide to have a ball of a time by doing things which they only had dreamt of doing. That’s the title of the movie – The Bucket List i.e. a things to do list that you prepare before you kick the bucket. The movie is a good entertainer and makes us realize the importance of living of our life to the fullest.