Cast Away (2000)
Country: US
Technical: DeLuxe 144m
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Cast: Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt
Synopsis:
An overworked but committed Federal Express employee's love life is routinely compromised but thrown into complete disarray when his plane crashes in the Pacific and he is washed up on an uninhabited island.
Review:
The technical credits of Zemeckis's film are, as usual, beyond criticism and Hanks's commitment extends to undergoing a complete physical makeover as well as delivering a largely solo performance of considerable conviction (conversing with a volley ball for much of the time). The twin lessons that the film appears to draw from its shockingly realistic tale are, first, that time certainly matters a lot if you're delivering the mail, but it has a whole new meaning if you are on your own on a desert island; and secondly that the direction of one's life can change unexpectedly at any point and this is the main reason to go on living. It's a film which, despite its longueurs and Hollywood rhetoric, deserves praise if only for its encouraging affirmation of the human spirit, and for the fact that it was made at all.
Country: US
Technical: DeLuxe 144m
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Cast: Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt
Synopsis:
An overworked but committed Federal Express employee's love life is routinely compromised but thrown into complete disarray when his plane crashes in the Pacific and he is washed up on an uninhabited island.
Review:
The technical credits of Zemeckis's film are, as usual, beyond criticism and Hanks's commitment extends to undergoing a complete physical makeover as well as delivering a largely solo performance of considerable conviction (conversing with a volley ball for much of the time). The twin lessons that the film appears to draw from its shockingly realistic tale are, first, that time certainly matters a lot if you're delivering the mail, but it has a whole new meaning if you are on your own on a desert island; and secondly that the direction of one's life can change unexpectedly at any point and this is the main reason to go on living. It's a film which, despite its longueurs and Hollywood rhetoric, deserves praise if only for its encouraging affirmation of the human spirit, and for the fact that it was made at all.
Country: US
Technical: DeLuxe 144m
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Cast: Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt
Synopsis:
An overworked but committed Federal Express employee's love life is routinely compromised but thrown into complete disarray when his plane crashes in the Pacific and he is washed up on an uninhabited island.
Review:
The technical credits of Zemeckis's film are, as usual, beyond criticism and Hanks's commitment extends to undergoing a complete physical makeover as well as delivering a largely solo performance of considerable conviction (conversing with a volley ball for much of the time). The twin lessons that the film appears to draw from its shockingly realistic tale are, first, that time certainly matters a lot if you're delivering the mail, but it has a whole new meaning if you are on your own on a desert island; and secondly that the direction of one's life can change unexpectedly at any point and this is the main reason to go on living. It's a film which, despite its longueurs and Hollywood rhetoric, deserves praise if only for its encouraging affirmation of the human spirit, and for the fact that it was made at all.