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Strong, visually stunning, absorbing and powerful film that leads you quietly but willingly aside one castaway's personal ordeal of life alone and the difficulties he faced just learning how to live a new solitude life.
Tom Hanks has already secured his position as one of Hollwood's leading and most sought after actors, and in Robert Zemeckis's Cast Away (2000) he continues to prove his acting prowess and versatility in a film where he acts alone for the major part and offers a brilliant account of one man’s incredible personal survival and individual growth when everything is against him.
His character portrayal of Chuck, a time-driven, motivated, workaholic is convincing and he expertly delivers his personality with ease and conviction, he comes across as a man obsessed by the clock, literally running from one business venture to another in as short a time as possible whether by plane, van, car, bike. The pace of the film in the opening parts is cleverly orchestrated by Zemeckis at manic pace to heighten the speed at which Chuck organises his life's busy schedule.
It is Christmas Eve and Chuck has important business to fly off to, he promises his disappointed girlfriend (well played by Helen Hunt) that he will return by new year's eve - he doesn't.
His company's jet crashes en-route into the Pacific Ocean where Chuck manages to free himself from the badly wrecked and burning aircraft and escape with his dingy. His boat hits rock, but he soon discovers that he has arrived at a deserted island.
Alone, Chuck is suddenly confronted with the reality of what this day had brought him - separation. Separation from the outside world and separation from all things that were an integral part of his life. In particular his work and his girlfriend (Helen Hunt) and a very well ordered life-style, he now had no watch or clock his most loved possession all he had now were the Fed.Exp company. boxes he had found washed up on the beach and his dingy.
Hanks cleverly and sensitively portrays a man coming to terms with the hand fate has dealt him with both humour and sheer frustration, From his first steps on the deserted sands and his subsequent time there we see a man keeping himself sane, surviving spiritually against the brutal reality of life that he faced there alone. Stunning photography and visual effects are used to heighten his trials, dangerous efforts and adventures to survive and escape his fate.
Paramount in Chuck's spiritual survival on the island, and a crucial part of his personal growth there begins with his unusual friendship with 'Wilson', a volleyball that has washed ashore inside a FedEx package from the doomed flight,characteried with facial features this becomes his imaginary friend, his only companion and his only ally in the dead of the many silent nights that he slept there. Within this relationship Chuck is seen developing on a personal level and learning about life to an extent he had never done before, the solitude had forced him into a necessary search and ultimate attainment of personal growth.
The result is a clever film, one based on one man's quest to survive against all the odds and his commitment to reclaim his life in the face of impossibility on all sides, the acting is quietly powerful, convincing and thought-provoking film definitely worth seeing.
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Advantages: Great film, great direction, great individual performances, gripping plot Disadvantages: Slightly dodgy lighting, plot not properly explained
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