Tom Hanks did it again

Rating: 8/10 (18 May 2020)

Cast Away is a survival drama movie directed by Robert Zemeckis and stars Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt and Nick Searcy.
The story of a FedEx employee who was living a great life with plans to settle with the woman he loves the most, suddenly he met with a plane crash and got stranded on a deserted island with only one companion Wilson the volleyball and his life changes completely.
The movie depicts different aspects of Chuck's life. The transformation of Chuck from an enthusiastic talkative person to a calm and controlled man. A person stuck alone on a deserted island finds a companion in a volleyball and started treating it as a human. There were two scenes which shows the real emotion of the person, first when Chuck throws Wilson the volleyball in frustration from the cave and then searches frantically calling his name as if the volleyball will respond back and secondly when he tries to save Wilson the volleyball when it gets drifted in water from the raft while escaping from the island. These two scenes shows pure emotion of human as we all must have or had something like this in our lifetime which we use to treat a living being and was or is part of our life.
The screenplay of the movie is evenly placed as the first 35-40 minutes he is shown as a dedicated employee who always prioritise work, the next 1:20 hours is based on his struggles to survive from catching fish, trying and succeeded in burning fire, making arrangements for drinking water and then making a raft and the remaining time his reintroduction with the mankind in the form of a transformed man who is quite and calculated.
The only drawback I felt in the movie was the ending of the movie. A happy ending wasn't expected and it was certain that his fiancÃ© would have moved on but still that section of the movie could've been avoided.
To conclude it's a good survival movie with powerful acting by Tom Hanks as the movie is mainly focused on him and he had done a great job. A must watch movie.