- Cast Away
- Production year: 2001
- Country: USA
- Cert (UK): 12
- Runtime: 143 mins
- Directors: Robert Zemeckis
- Cast: Chris Noth, Helen Hunt, Nick Searcy, Tom Hanks
So much free time, inversely make me bored as hell. Thanks God, I have a
netbook , and thanks again because I have some movies in it. So, I looked for a
movie to watch, and my choice went on 'Cast Away'. Yeah.., an old movie, but I
had never watched it before.
So, 'Cast Away' is about Chuck Noland (Tom
Hanks) who worked at FedEx. He is a
workaholic, he doesn't compromize with lateness of delivery. He has a fiance
named, Kelly Frears (Helen Hunt) . One day he got a call for delivering some
packages to Malaysia, so he must have a flight leaving his fiance alone for
days.
In the way of flight, the plane gets obstacles,losing radio contact and
bad weather, hence, it changes its direction of flight. But, suddenly it gets
shocked, and beginning to lose control. The plane hits the water of sea. Chuck
can get out of the plane,but the others can't. Then the plane sinks fast into
the sea. Chuck falls in unconsciusness. After he wakes up, he finds himself
stranded on unknown island, no human existence. And then the story goes on how
Chuck survives there... Okay, it's enough,
At the beginning of the movie, I was
disturbed by overplacement product of FedEx. The camera shoots to 'FedEx'
frequently. I assume this is a movie form of commercial ads-.-. But, it is
still acceptable by force..
The beginning of the movie is not special,
even Zemeckis tried to shoot uniquely in some scene. It is getting to be
interesting when the plane gets crushed on the sea. This middle part is the
'One Man Show' of sole Tom Hanks. Tom Hanks is really astonishing here. You can
see that it's not just Chuck that attempts hard to survive, but either Tom
Hanks! I'm sure many tiring scenes' done by Hanks himself. I heard that
Zemeckis shutted down the filming for a year merely for waiting Tom losing his weight.
What a total performance!
One-man show has always the risks of
becoming boring. I admit it, in some scenes felt so long and a bit of boring.
It gets worse caused of almost no scoring. There are just natural sounds. But
it doesn't matter., Tom is enough for attracting me. Oh, I forget one., I aslo
compliment for ... A Volley Ball! I thought early this volley ball scene is
stupid and too exaggerated. But as the story goes, that volley ball steals my
heart. I truly feel that ball lives.
*spoiler alert*
And I really got tears when 'Wilson' the
volley ball is gone at the sea.
*spoiler ends*
But still, this movie has flaws that enough
disturb me. Four years are too much, and I couldn't get how possible to survive
that long. And the end part is too long, cliche, and anticlimax. So, it ends in
emotion exerted..
Every surviving film always succeds taking
my emotion. '127 Hours', 'Life of Pi', and now 'Cast Away'. I just imagine if I
would be in that situation, I would die soon haha.
Movie gives you unimaginable experiences.
We can learn much about life by movies. It's stupid to put yourself in some bad
situation like movies above for experiencing different life. Movie is the closest way. That's the power
of movie.
Cast Away : 7,5/10
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