907 Words 4 Pages. ‘Cast Away’ brings to screen the horrible clutches of abandonment that a busy everyday man, who has no time for his loved ones and lives on strict routines, finds himself in. Patience, calmness, composure, gentlemanliness, all flock together into him making him the most powerful ‘virtue magnet’ out there. That, in fact, makes him the quintessential choice for ‘Cast Away’.Representing each one of us, the ones who will tremble at the sight of solitude, the ones who will be shattered beyond repair at the face of abandonment, the ones who make a thousand phone calls if our spouse or children don’t ring the doorbells on time, Hanks steps in and endures on-screen the harrowingly painful experience we all may have nightmares about.
While trying to make a raft, he coincidentally finds a portable toilet that washes up ashore. [In case you were wondering if Cast Away is based on a true story, the answer is No.] These questions do have answers if we give the film a chance to shift our perspective on solitary survival.The dominance of nature is what makes the film spiritual in its approach; it lacks cinematic aesthetics and scores more as a grounded take on reality. In a quick act caused by a sudden thought, he places his bloody palm on the volleyball and draws a face on it. However, the story doesn't end on a positive note. Chuck Noland might seem like a person who could have existed at some point in history, but there is no written record of a FedEx executive who got stranded on … She tells him where each road would take him and wishes him luck as she leaves on her truck. A FedEx executive undergoes a physical and emotional transformation after crash landing on a deserted island. As a man sets foot into the unknown realm of loneliness, as he is forcefully made to embrace solitude, he musters a certain amount of courage from within the environment, given to him by his primal Madre. To me faith is something that is transient, it is constantly adjusted by knowledge and actions of ourselves and others. The movie castaway premiered in 2000 and had the movie critics raving.