Chuck was a time obsessed FedEx executive who was on his way to an assignment in Malaysia when his plane crashed somewhere over the Pacific during a raging storm.

Rating: 7/10 (30 April 2017)

Cast Away was released in 2000 starring Tom Hanks as Chuck Noland. Chuck was a time obsessed FedEx executive who was on his way to an assignment in Malaysia when his plane crashed somewhere over the Pacific during a raging storm. As the only survivor, Chuck washed ashore on a desolate island. On this island, Chuck learns to survive after he finally realizes that no help will come for him.
The theme that Cast Away is based around is to never take things for granted. At the start of the film Chuck leaves behind the girl of his dreams because he's always chasing time. Little did Chuck know, when he boarded the Malaysian plane his schedule was about to clear up for the next four years. Chuck was driven to replace his relationship with a volleyball named Wilson, that this is when it was finally apparent to him what he lost. When Chuck finally escapes the island, and finds his way back home, the first thing he says to Kelly is that he should have never left that night. You could always tell how much Chuck regretted leaving her that night – on the island, one of his pass times was laying in the dark shining a flashlight on the portrait she gave him before he left. This is a perfect example of how they used lighting to show how Chuck was realizing what he's missing. He was hoping that she was still there waiting for him.
When Kelly found out that Chuck was alive, her world was turned upside down – everyone kept telling her that he was dead, they even had a funeral for him. Unfortunately for both, she ended up moving on and having a family with someone else – all because Chuck left that day and never returned.
The film Wall-E exemplifies a similar theme – having robots to clean up after the mess that humans made. The humans in the film kept taking the robots for granted, and never realized that they developed a dependency on them. This dependency lead the robots to become misguided all while the humans had no idea what was going on. To tie this together, Chuck is similar to the humans, he became dependent on keeping schedule and took granted that the one he loved will always be there waiting for him, and the robot captain is similar to Kelly, as she became misguided by others saying that he would not return to her.