Cast Away , like Private Ryan , loses three full stars from me for the extreme disrespect that it shows its audience in the prologue and epilogue. After watching Hanks struggle to survive for two harrowing hours, the filmmakers want to be sure that we know that he's a different man when he gets off the island. Let me leave you with this. There are angel wings inspirationally painted on it. I'll give you a minute to figure out what Chuck does with this package when he makes it back to civilization.
People buy all sorts of idiotic stuff with which to uglify their homes.
With a business that does a great deal of shipping, I got a priority mail box about the same size and composition of the FedEx container and put in a five pound weight - a conservative estimate of what a pair of iron angel wings would probably weigh. Then I lined it with bubble wrap and tossed it into the bathtub. Sank like a rock. By the way - don't try to open a locked door with a credit card, either, not unless you were going to cut the damned thing in half anyway. Muze Inc. For personal non-commercial use only.