Cast yourself away and SEE THIS MOVIE!!!

Rating: 10/10 (17 April 2001)

I'm sure that the grapevine has reached all of you with good and bad about this movie. Instead of explaining the plot of this fantastic film ,(which are available and excellently articulated in prior reviews) I will explain how I never really left the theater that day.
I was looking forward to this film ever since it's trailer in The Grinch. While I was sitting in the theater I was hypnotically transported to the island with our hero. I was there, making hatchets out of ice skates. I was there, bawling my eyes out when Wilson passed on.
I commend both Hanks and Zemeckis for their ability to entrance the audience. I had begun to actually believe that the volleyball was really talking with Hanks' character. At first the idea was silly to me, but within minutes I could almost hear Wilson talking.
Mentally, I never left the theater. Sure, Chuck Noland was cast away, but so was the audience. When I physically left the theater I felt distant. I felt like one person instead of a member of society. I believe that's what Zemeckis and Hanks wanted you to feel. The entire film was about realizing yourself. It worked
I look at this film not as a drama but more as a fantasy that every human being should wish upon themselves. This movie was indeed a saga. It was like a trilogy in one movie. There will be no sequel. There will be no prequel. It's done. The movie opened and closed, stepping to the top of cinema history.