Still super good

Rating: 9/10 (13 November 2019)

I hadn't seen this in years and had forgotten most of the details. Its a timeless movie just as good today as when it came out in 2000. I'd forgotten that this is ultimately a love story, had forgotten the despair, the giving up, the suicide attempt, mostly just remembered Wilson and Fire!
Tom Hanks is brilliant in his one man show of survival as airfreight executive Chuck Noland, a man who lives by the clock until his plane crashes and he washes ashore on a deserted island in the Pacific. For more than 4 years he struggles to stay alive sustained only by the companionship of a volley ball he names Wilson.
I still I had to question how easily Tom excepts that he is alone on a desert island, I lived in the Caribbean, some islands are very desolate in parts, he might have at least walked around the bay, there could have been a Hyatt Regency or a road or a cruise ship dock but no he just hunkers down on the beach. Liked the relationship with Helen Hunt, how hard it was for both of them. That scene with Wilson and the raft still made me cry. Best actor nomination to Tom Hanks.