Chuck and Wilson....

Hi,

I have been collecting DVDs of few great movies and adding them to my personal collection ( I like to see the all-time top 100 movies and read the all-time best sellers during my lifetime) and in this blog i would like to describe about one such movie which is all-time classic.

By the title of my blog, most of you would have picked the title of the movie. Yes indeed it is "Cast Away". Tom Hanks plays Chuck Noland who works for FedEx, who is struck by a disaster and a dramatic escape only to have the most traumatic stay in the islands.

The beauty of the director and the actor, they have beautifully pictured the way the man who forces himself to live and win the situation. The way Chuck searches for drinking water, creates fire to eat his fish, builds the shelter, calculates the ropes required to march on is awesome.

Wilson (the volleyball) plays a crucial role and in fact plays the role of mute listener (equivalent of K balachander's use of irumbal thatha in edhir neechal / jathi malli / unnal mudiyum thambi to name a few) and Chuck keeps talking to Wilson.

The scenes which would move anybody was the joy Chuck expresses after the lighting the fire for the first time singing "light my fire" by "The Doors", the moment he loses his wilson and in dilemma to save his life/go for wilson (who was with him for so long) and also the final scenes with kelly (helen hunt), where she has to decide her course of life were exceptional.

The music score by Alan Silvestri and the cinematography by Don Burgess was splendid (particularly in movies like this and phone booth, their scope is restricted to backgrounds, few landscapes, and also camera angles)

But to quote the best lines of the movie...When ...Chuck explains to his close friend, "I've got to keep breathing. Because tomorrow, the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring?"

The movie was shot in modriki island in fiji and i heard that the movie was shot in 2 schedules after an year so that Tom became very thin and hairy for this movie.

Its one of the best movie experiences i had watching this on a lonely night all alone (A perfect setting to have chuck noland, wilson and Myself).


/Lakshman

Comments

Unknown said…
Good Post Lakshman ! I have been a movie buff myself but shall watch this one for sure. Thanks for the review :)

-Raghu
3:03 AM
Unknown said…
sorry i meant i have never been ;-)
3:05 AM
Inder said…
it is a great movie. no doubt. but, it is a bit too melodramatic to my taste. i wouldn't watch it for the second time.
3:16 AM
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