News Summary

• The Life of Chuck is a recent adaptation of Stephen King’s The Life ofChuck.
• The film presents a more nuanced view of what it means to live a life.
• But it also fits into a recent trend of movies that feature characters who are struggling against the force of metrics ruling their lives.
• Once you turn art into content, you can measure it, gamify it, quantify it, reduce it, maybe even discard it, writes CNN.com's John Sutter.
• In the last scene, a teenage Chuck glimpses his own final moments later in life, lying in bed riddled with cancer.
• He vows to forget about the vision and live his life to the fullest.