A movie classic called Cast Away, not Castaway

Rating: 10/10 (25 October 2018)

Cast Away is about a Fed Ex executive who is involved in a plane crash and has to survive on a deserted island. From that description you might think this is a rather mundane movie with no plot and no story. It could not be further from the truth.
This, simply put, is a movie about time. It is a movie about the emotions that time evokes on any ordinary human being. But what makes this film a classic is what the late film critic Roger Ebert called suture. Suture is how much a movie, whether through acting, story, or soundtrack makes you feel just like the main character. You feel like you are in the movie and can relate to the characters and the story. Whether is it the deserted island, the romance, or the job you feel like Tom Hanks character, Chuck Noland.
The one aspect of director Robert Zemeckis films that I think are perfect are how he uses metaphor to tell the story. In this film, there is a beginning and an end. And they are both perfect and complement one another. It is hard to believe that a film can make the viewer relate to such a long period of time in 2 and a half hours. But Zemeckis does it with this movie just like he did it with an earlier classic called Forrest Gump.
There was one other aspect of this film that I realized myself and I wonder if others did too? If you type into a search for this film the word, Castaway, you will not find it. That is because the name of this film is actually Cast Away with a space. And to myself the meaning between the two titles is totally different. I think the hidden meaning is this: This is NOT a film about a castaway on a deserted island(like so many people think). It is a film about a guy, through some unavoidable event in his life, who is cast away by time and has to find himself all over again. The beginning and the end of this film made this point beautifully. This is a movie classic.