Journey to Self Discovery(Spoilers)

Rating: 7/10 (25 November 2001)

Tom Hanks is a Fedex Executive and Helen Hunt is his girlfriend. Tom is your classic yuppie workaholic and is forced to abruptly leave during the Holidays to go out of the country on business. He leaves with her a mystery package in the shape of a ring(box). His plane goes down somewhere in the South Pacific. Hanks is washed ashore and over the course of 4 and half years he undergoes a transformation in which he learns to build fire, survive off spear fishing and coconut cracking, and the pipedream of rejoining his girlfriend one day. During the first part of the movie fedex packages are constantly being washed ashore, and within those packages are the keys to his survival. Hanks accidentally paints a volleyball with a bloody handprint during a fit of self rage. During the course of the movie Hanks deprived of all civilized contact forms a bond of friendship with the Wilson Volleyball. The ball almost becomes his alterego as he caries on conversations with it through out the movie. While his quest to reunite with his girlfriend seems to be his motivating factor for his survival in which he contemplates suicide and his inevitable fate, in reality without his "pet" volleyball he probably would have given up hope. This movie doesnt have the Hollywood ending most long for, however it is a fine performance delivered by Hanks. Not many people could carry a movie without human interaction for most of the movie like he does. In the end Hanks is at the crossroads literally, and in the midst of self discovery. 7/out of 10. Good movie overall.