‘The Life List’ is a newly released Netflix film based on the 2013 novel of the same name by Lori Nelson Spielman. It stars former Disney starlet Sofia Carson as Alex Rose, and Connie Britton as her deceased mother. Alex is introduced as very much lost in her life. She’s not happy at where she is, and feels stuck. And then her mother dies of cancer. She’s lost in her grief, but she becomes even more devastated when she finds out she won’t be getting an inheritance, but a DVD instead. Alex then realizes that her mother left her to complete a ‘Life List’ that she jotted down when she was just 13 years old, and to find out what her actual inheritance is, she must complete everything on the list. She’s hesitant at first, but decides to go ahead and do it. And in the process, she learns more about herself than she ever signed up for. Here, we break down ‘The Life List’ to its entirety. We explore the one single thing filmmakers could’ve done differently to make the movie even better. And we give a thorough insight of Alex Rose herself, and how there’s actually an Alex Rose in all of us. As Sofia Carson herself said, ‘I just felt like I had been Alex Rose, and more so that we’ve all been Alex Rose at one point in our lives. Like, alive, but not living. And she awakened something in me. And I think that’s what we hope this film will do to you when you watch it. It kind of awakens us to life again in a really simple but powerful way.’ Let’s discuss…