Cast Away

Name: Cast Away

Genre: Adventure/Drama

Cast: Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt, Nick Searcy, Robert Zemeckis (Director)

Synopsis: Chuck Noland (Tom Hanks) is a system analyst who works for Federal Express (FedEx) to solve their productivity problems. He lives with his girl friend Kelly Frears (Helen Hunt) with whom he had a long term relationship. On night of Christmas Eve Chuck was called by the company to resolve some problems in Malaysia. When going to Malaysia the plane in which he was travelling got caught by a storm and crashed it in Pacific Ocean. But somehow chuck was able to survive that crash and got hold of a life raft. After clinging to that he was left unconscious, floated the whole night in that raft and next morning find himself on an uninhabited island. Many FedEx packages were also there which got scattered during the accident and also find the body of the pilot of the plane and later he buried him there. He tried many times with his efforts and resources available to him to make a raft again and move from their but wasn’t able to clear the surf.

He finds some useful items in that FedEx packages and when he searched for food, shelter etc. He left one package unopened. Chuck now realizes that he has to make fire and starts making that but during his few attempts he wounded his hand and in anger he throws some objects from FedEx packages into the water and one of them was a Wilson sports Volleyball which later he make a face on that ball naming it Wilson and starts talking to him. Four years have passed till that crash and now Chuck is very much thinner, weaker and had lot of long hair. Now he is expert in catching fish and making fire. He remembers her girl friend every single moment all the time during these four years. He also talks very frequently to Wilson (the face on Volleyball). Chuck now again decides to make a raft to cross the turf again. He built a life raft with proper focus and attention in building that raft and wants to wait for the best conditions to cross the powerful surf’s of the ocean. During the optimal conditions he boarded the raft to cross the surf. After some time, storm appears on the sea and tears his raft to pieces leaving him lonely again with all hopes gone. When he was unconscious floating on the river a nearby cargo ship spotted him and saved him.

After returning to home, Chuck came to know that he has been pronounced dead and all his family, friends has made his funeral also Kelly has been married to Chuck’s dentist and has a daughter too. On initial stages Chuck doesn’t have the want to meet Kelly for not waiting for her but her husband told Chuck that she waited for him for quite some time and it can be helped as she was alone and needed some support. Chuck finally meets Kelly. They shared their feelings but they both new that had to move their separate ways as it will not be possible to stay together as Kelly has some responsibilities towards her family too. Chuck returns to the address to deliver the last package which he didn’t opened. The house was empty so he leaves the package there and writes a note that this package saved his life. As he moved back a woman came there and explain to him that where each of the cross roads leads too. Chuck notice that the woman in the pickup truck has written the same lines as it was written on the FedEx left package Chuck now starts looking towards each road and after wards starts looking towards the truck of the woman.   

      

Review: It is one of the most good drama type movies of the Hollywood where Tom Hanks has given one of his life time performances in the movie. The whole movie was solely based on the acting of Tom Hanks and he had kept the expectation pretty brilliantly. Screenplay and the movie were good and so do was the cinematography and the story part and for that he was also nominated for many awards and also won quite few of them. It is purely dramatically type of film where he has given his heart out in that character. Such movies are rarely made and are very much appreciated although the ending of the movie was a little low to the standards maintained by the movie all the time but Hat’s off to Tom Hanks. Also to Robert for such a direction that captures each and every emotion of the movie beautifully.

Stars given: 3.5 out of 5