Tom Hanks stars in this modern Robinson Crusoe story. 2000. Director: Robert Zemeckis.
Chuck Noland (Tom Hanks) is a man, obsessed with the idea of that everything should go fast and effective. He's a FedEx systems analyst, and travel around the world to see that everything goes according to the time schedule.
Chuck is living in Memphis, is an Elvis Presley fan, and loves his clever girlfriend Kelly (Holly Hunter), with whom he's having a long-term relationship. But a christmas dinner with relatives is interrupted and Chuck has to leave for a job.
At the airport, Kelly gives him her grandfather's pocket watch with Chuck's favourite picture of her in it. He gives her what appears to a ring, but wrapped up in a little box. He then says that he will be right back, but who could know how wrong those words would turn out to be.
Flying over the Pacific Ocean, the plane crashes right into the big ocean during a violent thunderstorm which has made the plane flying off course. Chuck is the only one who manages to get out of the sinking plane, but he finds himself alone on top of gigantic waves in the thunderstorm.
After a long time, he wakes up, washed up on a small island. There's nobody there, not even any animals. He's all alone in the middle of the Pacific. He realizes after a while that he will never be found. He must survive on his own. Will he ever get out of there?
This film was good, maybe not Tom Hanks's best one, but it's not bad at all. I'm terrified of that gigantic, dark, dangerous ocean, so the scenes where Chuck is in a small life-raft on top of those huge waves in the storm is what I would call terrifying.
What's good about this film is that it's pretty realistic. Chuck is a normal guy, a bit stressed, but normal. He's starting to talk to a volley ball called Wilson as if the ball were a real person. Not weird really, people need to talk to someone, or just talk.
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