Seen it a thousand times, now I get it

Rating: 10/10 (29 October 2019)

Caught it today on cable halfway.
It draws you in.
Picture composition is astonishing, I guess that's just nature untouched.
Tom Hanks did a hell of a job going through all of the emotions of the character with nothing but his eyes and body language, not only on the island but back home too.
It is to expect that poor movie goers will fall flat on the surface of the coconut and lack the patience and effort to crack it open and delight themselves with its heavenly waters. That is to say, to not see the island as a metaphor.
Isn't life an island, limited, physically?
Is Chuck crying for a ball or for a friend? Isn't a friend someone who is the object of our hopes and joys?
The lose-lose monologue he has drinking with a friend, talking about his former girlfriend is perhaps the moment the character's deeper understanding of life occurs.
There's also a very tasteful (for its subtleness) criticism to the run-market-money-global-news-no time to think-way of life ("the dream"). "But it's a hell of an advertisement of FEx and Wilson!" Is it not mocking them?
I also really like the end. "Unknown this way. Unknown this way. Unknown this way. Home."