Cast out to sea. Never to return

Rating: 9/10 (25 December 2005)

If I didn't know that Tom Hanks starred in movies like "Forrest Gump", and "Saving Private Ryan", I would have given him all the Oscars there is. "Cast Away" is the brilliant story of survival, in every word of the title, of a FedEx shipper who stays on and island and manages to survive in complete isolation for 4 years, without any phone connections, and living with a volleyball that he later becomes friendly with, Wilson, and icon for all of us who need someone to talk to, even if its inanimate.
As I watched this movie, time and time again, I picked up on some ways of survival, ways of starting things socially, as once again, Robert Zemeckis can keep an audience captivated by the one movement of one man, of the one man who can make a major difference. Its hard to say whether people can learn, or debate by watching this flick, by saying all the garbage about how someone can really do it. Switch yourself with Hanks for a week, and then lets talk about how manly someone is.
Helen Hunt, who plays Kelly, and Hanks, who plays the brilliantly stable Chuck Noland, have great chemistry together, as both light up the screen with flavor and pizazz, which seems that no movie nowadays possesses. Watching this movie will make you frightened, and make you cry, but the lessons are numerous.
Ready to take on the next 4 years of your life? OK. Now, here's the challenge, unplug your TV and disconnect your telephone and computer systems. Now that you're ready, open up the new page in your life and
Begin.