Film Review: "CAST AWAY"

Cast Away is one of the most touching movie that I've ever seen. The story of Chuck Noland - an American survival film. One day when Chuck travels to resolve the productivity of FedEx or known as Federal Express, he did not expect that the airplane that he is riding on is going to crash in the Pacific ocean. Though he escaped through the inflatable life raft and survived, but he washes up on an island where no one lives.

After the incident, when he is already in conscious, all he want is to leave the island. He is the only person on that island until he found the body of the pilot on the shore. He get the dead body of the pilot and buried it. With the dead body of the pilot, FedEx packages also were washed up on the shore. He open some of it to use for his daily needs, but there is one package that he didn't open because he knew that one day he can leave the island and will personally give it to the owner of the package.

As the days go by at the island, Chuck already adapt the nature of the island. He knows how to survive alone - how to make a fire and how to get food just to survive. He uses the coconut as his water, he lives in the cave, and in the cave he's alone. One day, he's been injured as he make a fire. He was mad, he get the ball and throw it. The ball is full of blood caused by his injured hand. When he looked at the ball their is a name Wilson, the brand of the ball. That is the time that he started to imagine that the ball is his imaginary friend. Time and time again, he talked the ball like his best friend, everything he do he talked Wilson (the ball) about his life.

Chuck slept in the cave, and there, he wrote and count every single day to know how long he has been in that island. He lived in the island for 4 years. Until one day, as he slept, he hear something noisy and was awake. He get up and found out that it was a sail. He pull it to the shore but it was broken because of the wind. Until, he realizes that he will make a sail to be used in leaving the island.
On the next day, he started to make a native boat. He get some wood and peel the tree to make a rope. After making his own boat, he waited for the wind to change direction, for him to fight the waves that keeps in pushing him back to the island.

When he already conquered the waves he is very happy that he can now leave the island together with Wilson, his imaginary friend. As the days passed by, as he was in the middle of the sea without water. He looked for Wilson, but the ball was floating far away from his boat. He tried to get back the Wilson but he didn't get it back because it's already too far from him. Until their is a cargo vessel found him and bring him home.

When he finally got home, his friends and his other colleagues of FedEx were shocked that Chuck Noland is alive. Even his girlfriend was very shocked. All of them expect that Chuck Noland is already dead because it's almost 4 years that he is totally missing. Chuck was very sad after knowing that his girlfriend had a family already. Chuck Noland was disappointed telling his girlfriend that she must live with her husband and child.

Chuck Noland decided to deliver the package that he promised to deliver it personally to the owner when he was still there in the island. He promised to be the personal courrier of that package. When he delivered the package, the owner of the package was shocked because he order those packages 4 years ago and now the package arrived.

This movie is good and dramatical movie for me, it is very a touching movie specially to the scene when Chuck was trying to get back Wilson from the water. I can't stop crying and realize that we'll be a good friend to others even if the others cannot, will not or are not. Let's always spread the love and always remember that to survive, it needs determination and perseverance.