Review : Cast Away

1. Cast Away
2. Production year: 2001
3. Country: USA
4. Cert (UK): 12
5. Runtime: 143 mins
6. Directors: Robert Zemeckis
7. 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.

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And I really got tears when 'Wilson' the volley ball is gone at the sea.

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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