Solitude examined

Rating: Null/10 (13 August 2001)

The film takes an average citizen caught up in the fast paced world and subdues him on a tiny habital island.
The primitive nature of the human comes out as we watch Tom Hanks learn how to survive without the means of comfort.
Two questions arose while I viewed Cast Away.
1. What was his relationship with God?
2. What about sex?
I would have enjoyed these two aspects of our existence analyzed than the ones presented. The film could be anything I suppose pending on the character stranded. Tom Hanks, I feel represented the common suburbanite trapped in the rat race trying to survive, a man who seems to have forgotten about what it means to be alive. I would have rather seen a priest stranded or a prostitute.
The film deals a lot with isolation and the need to have personal contact. I did not care too much for Tom hanks character. He seemed bland but I guess that was the point, or was it?
It was a nice touch with Helen Hunt's recognition of "no return but can I have a hug and a deep kiss to remind me."
Then the finale at the crossroads. Was not big on it.
But the film's attempt at showing how we can begin again after a long haul in the rat race succeeds and it would be nice to see if the common man/woman seeking comfort with this world might open his or her eyes to an alternate way of thinking should their soul be dying.
The film looked nice at times. Well photographed.
See "Swept Away", an Italian film by Lina Wertmuller. It's stranded people are more interesting to watch.