Movies On Travel

The movie that I chose to my project "Movies on Travel" is "The Bucket List". It is a 2007 American comedy-drama film directed by Rob Reiner, written by Justin Zackham, and starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman. Two terminally ill men escape from a cancer ward and head off on a road trip with a wish list of to-dos before they die. Corporate billionaire Edward Cole and working class mechanic Carter Chambers have nothing in common except for their terminal illnesses. While sharing a hospital room together, they decide to leave it and do all the things they have ever wanted to do before they die according to their bucket list. In the process, both of them heal each other, become unlikely friends, and ultimately find joy in life.

Edward and Carter begin an around-the-world vacation. They go skydiving together, drive a Shelby Mustang, fly over the North Pole, eat dinner at Chevre d'Or in France, visit and praise the beauty and history of Taj Mahal, India, ride motorcycles on the Great Wall of China, attend a lion safari in Africa, visit the base of Mt Everest in Nepal (which was unfortunately shrouded in cloud), visit the Great Pyramid, looking out over the pyramids of Khafre and Menkaure and visit Hong Kong. Certainly they have a lot of external journeys, or one journey with different stops. While having this external journeys they also discovers the main issues of their lives and realize that they are escaping from the conflicts they have with their families because they do not want to face them. Its take us to interpret their internal journeys.

I chose this movie because it has both external and internal journeys. While they are "traveling" they experience internal journeys. Certainly this movie has a beautiful message with a life lesson. I think it is the perfect movie to compare and link not only external and internal journeys but also tourists vs. travelers.