The Bucket List

What would you do if you suddenly find out that you have cancer ? Well... creepy question, but that's exactly what happens to the protagonists of this tremendous film directed by Rob Reiner and released in 2008. One of the most atractive things about this movie are the actors (sort of gods of the cinema) that interpret our main characters. We are talking about nothing less than Jack Nicholson (he is not a psycho now) and Morgan Freeman.

Here we can see Edward Cole (Nicholson), a multimillionaire hospital runner married four times and a pretty lonely, enjoyer and funny old man, talking to Carter Chambers (Freeman), a mechanic, the patriarch of a big-happy family and a very reflexive and lovely man. How this two different guys meet each other? Simple, they both have been diagnosed with terminal lung cancer and they finish in the same hospital room, an Edward's hospital by the way.

After reading a to do list before dying made by Carter, Edward add some crazy things to this list and invites his roommate to travel around the world making all of this wild stuff that they've never done, together, and with Edward's money of course.

Some of the points of this bucket list are skydiving, car running, and exploring (just action and fun); and some others are laugh until cry or kiss the most beautiful girl in the world (deeper things, don't you think?). 

Trough the movie you'll watch this special couple trying to complete the list, givin you lots of fun scenes fulls of the characteristic humor of these guys. And of course there is a deeper part of the movie in which you will see exciting life discussions about love, loneliness, loyalty and many other classical topics from the mouth of these gurus. 

I got to say that watching Nicholson and Freeman working together in such a great film is pure magic, they will make you laugh until cry, and sometimes just want to cry. And in the end you'll witness something majestic.

Here's the trailer, and I really hope you can enjoy this awesome movie sometime, I¡m sure it will make you treasure some little things of your life.

Good Bye Lenin!, Hi bloggers !

Let's start this blog with an european touch brought straight from East Germany, and yes, from almost twenty years ago.
Good Bye Lenin is a german film released in 2003, winner of lots of european awards and, I must say, a great piece of 121 minutes long.

This is Alexander Kermer and his beloved mum Christiane, they both live in the East Berlin of 1989 with his sister and daughter Ariane. Christiane is an ardent follower of socialist ideal and an active member of the Socialist Unity Party until she falls into a coma after a heart attack.

Eight months later, she wakes up and everything has changed in Germany. Yes mates, we're talking about the Berlin Wall made rubbles and an unified country once again.
The doc warns Alex that his mom won't resist another heart attack... and what can shock mum again? Maybe that the capitalist germ has reached her city and has destroyed all what she fought for trough her life...


Conscient of this, like a good son, Alex turns his mum's room into an island of the past and makes everything to keep the secret safe. Here's when the story turns really interesting, so I won't tell you more.

The touching and memorable scenes, plus the great perfomances, the original story, a great script and the delicated german accent, make a great, really great movie that might lead you to tears in some moments and to laughs in some others but it won't let you indifferent. 

Here's the trailer, and I hope you watch the film :D