映画「最高の人生の見つけ方」人生のご褒美は友情だった！

人生の最終章にきて初めて、人生の意味や価値を見いだしていく二人の「最高の人生の見つけ方」でした。ジャック・ニコルソンという俳優は、観る人に何かこう仕掛けてくるキャラクター作りをしますね。観る人の心の動きを手にとって、動かしているようにも思えます。そこまでやるかなあ、それ以上は・・というギリギリの所まで私たちに迫ってきて、そして笑いに変えてしまうのが得意のようです。シリアスと笑いは、切っても切れない縁で結ばれていますね！ベテラン俳優同士の掛け合いが見事で、何度みてもいいですね。この映画！Amazon.com

"You measure yourself by the people who measure themselves by you," says the quietly wise Carter Chambers, played with gravitas and grace by a Morgan Freeman. In Rob Reiner's moving, often hilarious film The Bucket List, all sorts of people measure themselves against the two heroes, Chambers and his hospital suitemate, Edward Cole (Jack Nicholson). But as Cole finds, having spent his entire life building a Fortune 500 company, none of that much matters when cancer, the great equalizer, pays a visit. The film traces the adventures of the two unlikely friends, who meet in a hospital cancer ward, each given six months to live. The "bucket list" of the title refers to a lifelong list of goals that a teacher of Chambers once advised him to compile--and achieve--"before you kick the bucket." Soon the two are off on what may be the last grand adventure of their life, vowing to tick off as many goals (skydiving, race-car driving, seeing the wonders of the world) as they can in the time they have left. What starts as a medical melodrama becomes a road trip, yet the men's mortality realities are never far from thought. The two leads give impressive performances, and remind the viewer of just how few American films focus on the lives and loves of senior citizens. Nicholson even manages to lose his persona in his character, much as he did in About Schmidt. There's a lovely John Mayer tune, "Say (What You Need to Say)," that's perfectly matched to the film's clear-eyed view of life: What does one person leave behind as his true legacy? --A.T. Hurleyリフレクソロジールームママキッチン