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The Symbolism in the movie 'Cast Away' |
The caption under the title of Fox’s film “Cast Away” reads, “At the edge of the world, his journey begins. This statement could not be farther from the truth as the movie unfolds and we find our hero, Chuck Noland (played by Tom Hanks), stranded on an island in the Pacific Ocean. The journey, however, is not only a journey home, but also a journey that helps Noland discover what is most important in life. As the movie begins, we see Chuck Noland, a Fed Ex executive obsessed with his job, which in the world of a Fed EX executive is time. He says, “We live and we die by time. And we must not commit the sin of turning our back on time.” As life would have it, Chuck finds himself on a plane on Christmas Eve that crashes in the Pacific Ocean, stranding Chuck from all of civilization including his |
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Living in such a civilized world at the beginning of the movie, Chuck Noland thought that time was the most important thing in the world. Now lost and basically given all the time in the world, more than anybody would ever ask for, he finds himself concerned about other things. We see him struggling to hang on to parts of his old life as he develops the skills to survive in his new environment. He draws pictures of his wife and creates an imaginary, yet, legitimate relationship with a volleyball he has dubbed simply ‘”Wilson.” We find Chuck Noland no longer concerned with time, but with interaction, with human relationships and things left unsaid in his past. The irony in this movie, the point that I think is relevant to this essay is that civilization has come so far that we have forgott
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