He could see the body of a person floating. Even the sound of the coconuts scares him. Nothing besides water around the whole contours. First steps in the Virgin Island Then, he writes on the sand. They land in the sea, and Chuck can bravely escape from the plane until the moment he arrives close to the coast and rests. He rescues the watch on the floor, gets the first surveillance kit, and gets ready for the worst part of the tragedy. He goes to the toilet and tries to brush his teeth. Then, the sentence: I’ll be right back! He takes the plane. A promise to open a certain packet only next Happy New Year celebration was made. Anyway, he says goodbye and forgets to give her the car keys. A clock is given to him as a present, on the way to the airport, after dinner. They go for Christmas celebration with the family. That’s a historical reference in the film. He meets Kelly in her office getting copies of a dissertation. After the flight, he talks with Stan, and gets concerned about Mary’s health problem, trying to help his best friend. Then, Chuck is making a speech about the importance of time for their job and the concurrence between FedEx and the USmail. They remove Lenin’s picture in front, and outside of the store. The Van 286 is going to a store in Russia. We never have the sensation it is too slow, and our feelings move from contemplation, to panic, curiosity and hope. Everything seems to be very well connected. We can see the drama going to the top, coming down, with intermediate points, as Gustave Freitag theoretically divided it. The film is controlled so that the main topic could be shown and balanced. If we have to evaluate the sequence of he film, we do have to recognize how organized the edition is. About the moment that the engine was sucking him and it suddenly exploded, or the rope impeded him to come up to the surface those moments of suspense are common in many films Tom Hanks, transcends the limits of dramaturgy, with his diet. I’d say what is really original in the film is the transformation of the personage, which is much more demanding than Tootsie. Even his toothache made me remembering the scene "The beach" with Di Caprio, where the only way, was getting rid of the tooth, once they could not cure the pain. If we compare with some other films, we would say it makes us remembering Tarzan, and many heroes of resistance. His belief, so close to the day after, not with what he was really living. His intelligence is demonstrated when he has several attempts to use objects “properly”, like the ice skating blade, the dress, the cassettes, and the sales. It’s unreachable, from the beginning to 02the end. Anyway, we close our eyes to it, when we see he at least, compares crabs from Alaska and fire in the city and allude a comparison with what he had in the isle. Chuck’s psychological hybridism should be explored much more. Anyway, by the director and writer’s background, we can wonder that they are fond of the exploration of incredible journeys, their spirit of adventure. Broyles was cast away near the Sea of Cortez, and he could notice what should really go on with someone in such a condition. We do not see his psychological statement. There’s a whole in the boat when he arrives in the island, and he makes use of the same boat to try to escape. The fact that Chuck stays alone for a long time,and he’s unable to find friends, as well as he gets frustrated with attempts to leave the isle, conduced him to the idea of suicide. Some controversies are presented along the film. The distant FedEx Van that comes far away is noticed only when the silence of the landscape is broken with the noise of the engine, and the film curiously ends in the same scenario, by the same way it starts. It shows the personages, and their functions, then, the accident followed by the survivor’s drama in the island, and his hope to come back. The moments of the film are very clearly divided. Kelly’s given him her grandpa’s clock, and he gave her a box, which seems to be suitable for a ring. Kelly’s family is asking him to assume the matrimony in the last Christmas dinner they had together. It makes the film intellectually and philosophically interesting. Chuck’s transformation along the film is not only physically but also spiritually. The producer’s showing a different angle of loneness. The film focus is the survival of the human spirit rather than the survival itself. CAST AWAY – A film directed by Robert Zemeckis is about a FedEx worker, Chuck Noland, interpreted by Tom Hanks, who is a victim of a plane accident, and the only survivor, who stays in an island for four years.
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