A friend called Wilson.

Rating: 10/10 (22 March 2011)

For me, this movie summed up much more that Tom Hanks being alone on a desert Island after a plane crash.
This film hit home real loneliness in the shape of a ball with a face painted on, to give Tom Hanks' character someone to talk to, and the efforts Tom Hanks goes to, to retrieve his ball friend, Wilson, when it gets knocked off Tom Hanks' raft during an escape from the island, will make you weep.
Because deep downside we all know what it's like to feel lonely, even among friends we can feel lonely, because we are largely a pretentious society, living purely on the outside, letting our friends see just what we want them to see. We do take each other for granted.
When Tom Hanks finds this ball among shipwrecked goods, he inflates it and paints a face in red on it, and whilst on this island, Wilson, is his only friend, starring at him with a smiling face from a Rock Hanks has placed him on.
Personally, I found the relationship between Tom Hanks' character, and his desperate need to create a friend, and talk to it, and even argue with it, more moving than the actual picture.
Disaaster movies are two- a penny in Hollywood, even when the relationships have been built up, so we all have someone to root for, to care about. But Tom Hanks, and his friend Wilson, beat the lot of them.
I will finish by telling you this, in the raft incident, and Tom Hanks loses Wilson to the sea and it's current, you will feel for Tom Hanks, if you don't, you just ain't human.