Life is coming to an end, a last wish emerges, unable to complete it, and sometimes I have no courage or lose my ideal and choose to give up to complete this list. A wise person will think about what it is for living a lifetime, and it is said that the meaning of life is to live. What, the fool will sigh about the vicissitudes of the world, like the fleeting flowers in the sky, and the two can only have hatred after all. There is a survey on whether people are willing to know their own limit in advance, and 95% of the people choose not. Not just lack of courage, but to give yourself a freer world to indulge. But it is also easy to regret it. I have a lot of admiration for those who chose yes. But even the two protagonists in the film, a black mechanic (Carter), learned and always dreamed of being a history professor, and a billionaire (Edward), are not the 5% who, when given the death notice, They all chose to fight. Although they knew that this was a process from resistance to confusion to despair and finally to calm, when they first heard the announcement of their own death, they were both shocked and disappointed. After all, no one can face death suddenly. At this time, they will naturally think about what the meaning of their life is. Edward was lying in bed lonely watching the baseball game. Carter wrote his last wish for his life. Life is made up of one regret and another regret. When you are about to face death, you will find that there are too many things worth trying in this life, but you have ruthlessly missed them. A lot of opportunities, with hatred silently disappear in front of my eyes, there are too many personnel, I want to be close, miss and beg no longer. In Carter's list, there are some wishes such as "help a stranger", "laugh to tears", "appreciate the most magnificent scenery" and so on. When writing this list, Carter was sad, he didn't want Edward to see it, and threw it into the trash after he wrote it. Maybe it's because of the fear that others will find out if the value of your life is meaningful. At least he has denied the value of his life to some extent, caring about his wife, his career, his children, he has questions. As for Edward, he completely denied himself, his extremely successful career and his billion-dollar property. This is life, and what is the meaning of life, the author puts a big question mark here, and also makes the audience ponder. At this point, what's the difference between a billionaire and an auto mechanic? The same loneliness and sadness. It seems that life has no meaning at all.
Then, the author gave his own answer. It's about fulfilling your "wish". When Edward picked up the list in the basket, there was a gleam in his eyes, something he had never thought of at this moment. So he added these last wishes "kiss the most beautiful girl in the world", "tattoo", "skydive", "go to Egypt to see the pyramids", "lion hunt". So, after a quarrel between Carter and her wife, they traveled around the world with a common desire - the extreme low ice fields, India, Cairo, Beijing, Hong Kong, Tibet... Although the two had different mentalities, Edward treated This 'list' is a boisterous practice, on the contrary, Carter's wish is more dependent on the direction of the soul, like witnessing something solemn and grand, more like helping a stranger out of good intentions. Edward was looking for a thrill, like jumping out of a flying plane, or kissing the most beautiful girl in the world. But the end result is that they both found the meaning of their lives, which can be seen in Edward's final eulogy. The meaning of life is to have no regrets, to do what you want to do.
Here the author seems to be saying that we should cherish the opportunity to treat ourselves well. But we make a choice
Haven't you really been taking good care of yourself? Edward chose to go into business, and he never failed; although Carter gave up his ideals for the sake of his family—becoming a professor of history, at least he chose what he felt should be true at that time. If he chose to continue to study history at that time, then He may now have another regret. There are always regrets. Cherish such a simple truth now, how could it fool all sentient beings? This is not what the author wants to say. Things are developing, but it is the development of change. No one knows what it will develop into in the end, just like nature never thought that it would create human beings. Only when it is completed will it know what to regret and what to be happy. In this way, it is important to cherish the present, but it is more important to have the courage to remove your regrets (many people do not realize until they die to complete their last wishes), that is, in the short but real time before their own death. own regrets. After all, you can't predict the future, you can't do things at will, and you can't avoid regrets. All the author has to say is to try to get it done. Regarding the structure of the film, there is this comment: the film feels like an extended movie trailer with a glaring flaw at the end. ——"USA Today" obviously this statement is very correct, but it is also one-sided. The high ideological connotation has surpassed the huge spiritual feeling that the structure of the film itself can bring to the audience.
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