Chuck Noland, an employee for FedEx, is sent on a business trip that resulted in a plane crash

Rating: 8/10 (6 October 2014)

Cast Away does an incredible job using cinematography to convey a message. Film makers using extreme long shots to show distance and the enormity of the island. Close shots are also used to make you feel secluded. They are used to make you feel like there is nothing else around except for Chuck and you as you are watching it. The directors did a create job with just casting one actor (Tom Hanks) and using him without dialogs to portray everything that was going on. There were incredible aerial shots of Chuck standing on top of a large cliff that is over the island and ocean to show how massive that the island itself is and how high up that Chuck is. Panning shots were also used very well to make a specific area of land or body of water to seem longer or bigger than it actually is. Symbolism played a big role in Cast Away. It created multiple ideas in an audience's mind of how the movie could go. The use of natural lighting made the overall film quality better.
If you love wondrous, slightly intense dramas then Cast Away is for you. It does not keep you on the edge of your seat but it keeps your mind always thinking ahead about how this story could possibly end out. If you enjoy just a little romance and not an extreme amount you would also enjoy this movie. This movie is for all types of people. It is not over dramatic and girl like. It is for both guys and girls. If you like feeling a part of a setting this movie will give you that exact feel. If you love adventurous movie shots, such as, views from a top of cliffs and underwater then this is a movie you will come out of wanting to watch over and over.