The Bucket List Friendship Quotes

Friendship is a component of human existence that builds character while transforming one’s perspective on life. The film, The Bucket List, directed by Rob Reiner, explores the paradigm shift of both protagonists, Edward Cole and Carter Chambers. In this film the director demonstrates that shared adversity, honest debate, and mutual understanding can completely transform one another’s perspective. Initially Edward Cole and Carter Chambers were on different ends of the spectrum but were almost exactly the same. Edward Cole was a rich man who thought about always getting the last cent out of people’s pockets. Due to this however Edward never had time for anything but business. “I always worried about work so much that I never had any time for
Edward believes that a person dies and nothing happens and they stay dead. “We live, we die, the wheels on the bus go round and round.” Through this quote we can analyze that Edward due to just working believes that no one is incarnated because of him not having anyone around him who actually cared about him. Carter believes that there is a heaven and hell and to get into heaven you have to answer two questions “Did you bring joy to yourself? Did you bring joy to others? These two questions answers are different between Edward and Carter because they are only able to answer one of the questions. After this we see that Edward is able to bring Joy to Edward through their worldwide trip and Carter is able to feel joy for himself. Through their debates on religion and death they were able to strengthen their friendship and cause a change in their thoughts. Through the film, The Bucket List, Rob Reiner showed that through shared adversity, honest debate, and mutual understanding can strengthen friendship. Friendship is a paradigm shift between two people that can completely change a person's