Nov
21
I was watching CastAway on TV weeks ago, and I can say it's another classic by Tom Hanks again. It started with a guy who was working for FedEx, but found himself stranded alone in an island after a plane crash. So he was left with some FedEx parcels in the struggle of his life. In the hope that one fine day, he might be able to return home, to tell his family about his stories. Survival seemed to be the only matter he could think of.
At times, he almost found himself insane with the lifeless days he went through with no one to speak to, leaving himself with loneliness and despair. So he created his friend in a volleyball, one of the FedEx parcels which ended up with him. He talked to the volleyball named Wilson, and at times quarrelled with "him" in order to keep his sanity in check. So when the day he ventured out to sea to hope for freedom from the desolated island, he made the greatest move which would determine the rest of his life.
Unfortunately, out at sea, it's a challenge against the big tidal waves, or rather Mother Nature. At the point where he felt chances of returning home were getting higher, he lost his best friend Wilson. Wholly devastated, he let fate decide his outcome as he threw away his paddler and ceased to hope. But alas, a cargo freighter came to his rescue.
He was brought back to his hometown, but reality sometimes proves to be the worst calamity. His wife remarried. He could only blame himself for going to work that day...
Okay, Im not trying to be narrator for wikipedia or what, but what has left a bitter sweet memory after watching the show is attributed to the following "stints" in the wonderful show:
1) Tom Hanks was back to the town, and describing all his ordeals he had during the years cast away. During this take, I noticed the Academy Award winnder for Best Actor spill out his sorrows, his emotional desperation, the hardship he went through and the hope which glimpsed in his eyes like a shining star. This take took about 5 minutes, and the focus was on him all along (meaning no cut scenes in between). From this, it reinforced my belief why he was such a good actor, even after watching Forest Gump and Saving Private Ryan.
2) The last part really summed up Chuck's mood (Tom Hanks). After he delivered his final parcel which he had kept for 4 years without opening, he knew that the parcel was the light that kept his days bright all along, as he wished he could one day return the favour by sending the parcel back to it's destination. So what after that? He definitely was lost, and might be mosre lost than he was at the island. No hope to cling to anymore, no families to be with, this finale really made me feel that a person is most vulnerable when he's lost. Christians will now thinkof the 3 words Faith Hope and Love.
Hopefully this will not be the last movie that I watched alone.
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