@@carlhartwell7978 he also could have got side swiped by a drunk driver and died seconds after the film ends 😆 your head Canon be whatever you want I guess
I loved how bittersweet the ending was. The island taught him to let go of everything he'd taken for granted and to keep going forward, one step at a time. And while his not getting his girlfriend back was incredibly sad, it's still not a tragic ending. He still has a future, and so does she. It's really beautiful.
i think he and kelly were just not meant for each other. i think his true soulmate is the woman at the end, the wings on her truck and the fact that the package was hers are a sign of that
@@madapigi1 And that is some overromantiziced malarky, if I ever heard any. There are 7,6 Billion people on this earth. If there was only one soulmate for everyone, almost all of us would never meet theirs. A lasting relationship is lots of work, and despite the "signs" one might read into things at the start, no amount of good faith will make it survive, if you don't put in the work.
A FedEx commercial during the 2003 Super Bowl parodied the final scene of the film, in which Chuck returns a package to its sender. In this version, the woman answers the door, and when Chuck asks what was in the box, the woman replies: "Just a satellite phone, GPS locator, fishing rod, water purifier, and some seeds.
The moment he realizes that he has freed himself from the island, which had been both his lifeline and his prison, with the music slowly and softly fading in, was one of the best in the film. You can imagine how that would feel, a mixture of both hope and fear.
The woman at the end was the owner of the package, when she leaves he sees the same wings at the back of the truck, so probably chuck will come back there because she bassicaly saved his life
To me the ending (at the crossroads) was in contrast to his situation on the island. Stranded on the island, he was stuck and couldn't move very far in any direction. At the end, the redhead shows him that he can travel in any direction as far as he wants. This is symbolic of being free of his former life. His future choices are wide open and in his hands.
Almost everyone missed the connection with the guy with the Cowboy hat in the beginning, he was cheating on his wife who was the welding artist at the end of the movie. She cut off his name from the sign at her ranch house and you can see his name (Dick) haha, at the beginning of the movie.
I watched this with my daughter when she was 12, and the part when Wilson floats away, I looked over and she was bawling. I felt so bad, and I told her that Wilson would find another home, and a new friend. :(
I lost my wife to cancer back in 2009. We were married for 30 years and the only girl I've ever dated or kissed.I'm 66 now. This is at 19:03 exactly how I want to hug her when I see her again, silent, intense, no excess movement so to concentrate on the touching. The acting level is beyond an Academy Award Oscar Level. The music score is unbelievable. The same song brings at different times , sadness, wistfulness , hope, Resolve.
I remember watching the show Inside the Actors Studio, Tom Hanks was asked which way did he go at the end? His reply as he was smiling, "He turned right back around to that lady and made babies with her."
Just a side note to the movie... Note this whole movie was also based on the package with the wings. The girls ex husband was in Russia when the package first arrives and his name Dick is no longer on the sign over the girls farm gate at the end of the movie.
I have been crying with this movie for 21 years. I can’t say enough about Tom Hanks’ performance here. How can a man talking to himself and a volleyball make such an impact? And they wrote the ending perfectly. It would have been so easy to just go with the predictable happy ending. Instead the movie takes you from despair (Chuck contemplating suicide) to hope (he escapes the island) to despair (loss of Wilson) to hope (he is rescued) to despair (Kelly is married to someone else) to hope (he closes his old life by delivering the package and sees new promising life paths in every direction.) It’s brilliant.
And it was a great idea to not have any music at all while he was on the island and then have it start right back up as soon as he's on his way on the ocean. It gives it that much more emotional impact. I went to see this with some friends of mine. They thought it was "boring" but I loved it. Uncultured swine!
"Wilson" is really a symbol of everyone and everything he left behind in civilization, especially Kelly. He felt a tremendous guilt for choosing his job (taking the trip) rather than spending the most important moments with her and losing "Wilson" just brought back all his perceived guilt.
"I certainly hope this incident hasn't put you off flying Miss. Statistically speaking of course, it's still the safest way to travel". -Dude in blue & red tights, 1978.
When Kelly and Chuck were in the jeep at the end in the rain, she said his name, which was her asking what they should do now, get back together? ect....he said "you need to go home"
20:00: Regarding Kelly's husband not waking up: My theory (if this were actually a real-life event) is that her husband probably HAD woken up at some point, and was letting them have their time to themselves. He probably knew that at some point they would have to hash things out and deal with their issues. (Though I'm not sure he was aware of the part where Kelly ran after Chuck, nor would he be thrilled about that.)
I agree. He isn’t a villain. Imagine being that guy. You know your wife was in love with this guy who died in a plane crash. You have been married for years and have a child together. Then the phone rings. Chuck is alive and will be back in a couple days. You know this is going to change everything forever.
I mean, yeah, it looks like trusted his wife to make the best decision and gave her time and space to work it out without interfering. In other words, he was a good husband. Who woulda thunk it?
@@johnalden5821 That's one of the things I like about this movie. Other than the two cheaters at the beginning, the rest of the people are good, decent people. Her husband was my favorite character.
I dunno... I don't think he was as "good" as some of you are saying. It seemed clear to me from that first scene spied through the window after Chuck's return that she wanted to go see Chuck but her husband was arguing aggressively against it.
One of the coolest things about this movie if you haven’t noticed. Once he gets on the island they never use a soundtrack except the sounds of the water and island.
if you follow the placement of the camera and the characters at the end, you can tell that he turns back in the direction that the truck w/ the angel wings went and smiles. That last scene was summing the message of the movie up. "Don't fret when you are lost and things look bleak. Something wonderful might show up if you just keep breathing."
I really liked the ending. It shows that he's at an inflection point in his life, and truly free to go wherever he wants. And the best part is that final shot where he looks in the direction of the redhead, showing the hint of a smile, suggesting that he chooses love. It's subtle, but it's perfect.
sad he did not end up with Kelly but loved his positive attitude to go on and see what tomorrow would bring... he did understand that she had a commitment to her new family and was willing to let her go for the good of them
they were not meant for each other. i think his true soulmate is the woman at the end, the wings on her truck and the fact that the package was hers are a sign of that
One of Tom Hank's best work. I cried so many times each time I watch this film and of course the ending! Thank you for reacting to this beautiful, awesome film! 🥲
The plane crashes and submerges in water, and your first words are "THE PACKAGES!!" Had me rollin' lol At the end, with all that seafood, I think I'd be more like Iron Man: "I want an American Cheeseburger"
The point of the ending is even though he lost his former life, he gets an opportunity to establish a new one that's likely his fate to begin with. If that plane crash never happened or if he just committed suicide on the island, he wouldn't have met the woman at the end.
He intentionally kept one "random" package as a motivation to find a way to get off the island and that one "random" package turned out to be the most significant key to his future. This type of thing happens to many of us in real life. The "random" acts of life can become tremendously valuable to us.
@@davestang5454 Though he almost lost that motivation if it weren't for him testing if he could die the way he wanted to. So many people give up b/c death is a choice opposite emptiness, but many also persevere and make the most of what the tide brings them.
A technical note on the plot of the movie: Not to distract from all the other great moments where Hank's character finds ways to survive on the island and ultimately leave alive but the FIRE MAKING was actually a pretty dumb way to do it on a desert island with ample sunshine and lots of floating manmade objects washing ashore. Imagine trying to make fires like that hundreds or thousands of times over 5 years in a very labor-intensive way. The smartest way would have been to use a glass or plastic bottle to focus a pinpoint of light from the sun on some dry kindling material. Fashioning a simple little bow with a string and wrapping it around the rotating stick will generate a lot more friction with a lot less effort than using your hands while saving them from damage (like he got in the scenes!) His celebration after starting a fire was not overstated. In addition to cooking food, he could have also distilled fresh water over a fire and heated stones to stay warm at night, along with hundreds of other uses.
This simply is a tour de force for Tom Hanks. So many levels starting with the title and showing how driven he is at the beginning of the movie and how he did not give up even though he contemplated his own end at one point. I have to agree this is one of Hanks' best acting performances.
@@richierich7229 Thats what he himself has said on it, whether there is merit on it or not is debatable, but doing that to your body can't be good, its too much of a shock to the system.
The plane crash scene is a fine cinematic moment; people who recount harrowing incidents, especially after some time has passed, will remember things in sharp detail, often out of sequence, and focus on tiny details and 'what might have beens'. This is a powerful learning process for the most fundamental parts of our brains; it's connected with the ability to 'map' places and dangers, and is also the source of conditions like PTSD, as well as 'how to avoid that next time'. I suspect the man who lived through all this is in touch with his fundamental nature in a way few people are.
I think you may have missed the whole point of the ending. The Fedex package that he left at the door was for the girl in the truck. The wings on the package were also painted on the back of the truck and they signified the sail on his raft. Him noticing the wings on her truck is basically telling you that not only was the thought of Kelly keeping him alive but the wings on the Fedex package were too. The ending really exposes the type of person that the viewer is. If you're an optimist you think he followed the girl in truck back to her house. If you're a pessimist, you think he kept driving the opposite direction.
He Followed the Girl ! That little tiny sly grin said it all. It was so slight of a smile. Maybe I imagined it, but it's what I would have wanted. Plus she was a red Head., as was my late wife of 30 years. And I would follow her to the Ends of the Earth .
@@BrianNIL are you responding to a comment I made on Ad Astra? this is a Cast Away reaction. one of my most favorite movies. I did walk out on Ad Astra.
@@MatthewPettyST1300 lol yeah? My mom was utterly baffled by that meandering mess of a film, slyly commenting something along the lines of "My goodness, it was two and half hours of daddy issues..." Hah she (and anyone else who thought that) is not wrong. There might have been a good film in there somewhere, but the premise and execution was excruciatingly slow. That said, i actually liked it! Lol what can i say, I thought it was a neat meditation on... Lol whatever psychological baggage the main character was struggling with. i can't say I'm personally that stoic or detached, but i appreciated the cool, withdrawn and slightly broken nature of the MC. Still objectively a dumpster fire, but i couldn't bring myself to dislike it
The woman is also the woman with the man in the cowboy hat at the beginning. This may mean that the package that kept Hank's character alive was from her to the adulterous cowboy-hat man, or possibly even from him to her. If so, then the old package may undo whatever caused woman and cowboy hat man to break up (if he's an adulterer to her too, then probably not), or simply remind her of something she'd rather not think about. Does Hank's character want all this baggage? The past is what's gone, the present was life on the island alone, the future can be divined a little, but remains unknowable until decisions are made. Rather wonderful.
The ending was perfect. :) Kelly leaving her husband and family to go back with him? No, of course not. Heh. And the husband was rather cordial considering he knew what he could possibility lose. Hanks returned the package and found peace. The implied bit where he hooks up with the hot artist is unnecessary, but leaves a bit of mystery which is okay.
I always thought after 4 years, he reverted into his more primitive human roots and Wilson was his psychological split to help him survive. When he lost Wilson, he became whole again ready to integrate back into society...
Tho I do wonder what he would have done if he didn't lose wilson. I mean, would he keep it? How would he view it after not being dependant on it? tbh it would be kinda funny to imagine him still treating wilson like a human person while interacting with other people, lol.
@@sertu1462 A scene where he's taken aboard the ship; a very long ladder is let down, he barely has the strength to climb, even with people at the top urging him on. At the top, he collapses to the hot steel deck, takes deep breaths. Then he suddenly realises and staggers to the ship's railing, to see both raft and Wilson vanishing in the ships' churning wake, never to be seen again.
After the first time watching this film originally in the theater, I’ve kept coming back to watch it on home video at least once a year. A film that resonates with me like this makes it one of my favorites.
I really liked the ending. I feel like it showed that just because you aren't stuck on a deserted island doesn't mean you can't still feel like a lonely castaway, but you still have the chance of being rescued with every new day.
I really loved this movie, it really touched me on many personal levels. I would do almost anything to erase it from my mind so I can experience it the first time again.
The ending at the crossroads shows that anything can happen next. He appreciates what he has, isn’t consumed with time anymore, and is free to enjoy each new day. It’s very hopeful and shows that you can overcome adversity or depression, or whatever and that there will eventually be better days.
Enjoyed the reaction video as always. It looked like you didn't notice the wings from the FedEx package on the back of the woman's pickup though as she drove away from Tom Hanks. That detail leaves the audience wondering if he's going to end up with her or drive off in some other random direction.
I think him saying that thing about not knowing what the next sunrise will bring is appropriate in that he lost the love of his life, but that doesn’t mean he’ll never love again.
@@Megan-ir3ze I would feel better about it if she was engaged and about to get married, because she was 3 months pregnant. That would have felt like she waited, and was forced to move on. Instead it felt like she waited until the life insurance check came and used it to start a family.
I hated that ending for over 15 years I would say, but then I stopped hating it. It's sad, depressing, but realistic. You got to keep going, keep fighting, it's not over until it's over.
I'm not saddened by the ending. To me the saddest part was when Wilson floated away and he breaks down crying. About the ending: First, of course Kelly's husband woke up. But to me, he made a conscious decision to stay out of it. He knows his input can only hurt, and he stayed put and let Kelly and Chuck come to their own conclusions. Imagine how scary that must have been for him, to know his wife is going to have to make a decision and he's powerless to even put in his own input. I think he's a far better husband than you credit him with being. Chuck and Kelly wanted to be together, but they both knew it was already too late. Not just Chuck and Kelly were involved, now Kelly's husband and especially her child were in the picture. Chuck states in his speech that he has to keep going, because he's learned that tomorrow the tide might bring him a sail.. When Bettina (the red-haired woman at the end) gives him directions and he realizes who she is, he stands at the crossroads and looks each direction, finally settling on Bettina's direction. He smiles, because he just found a sail that the tide brought him. He knows where he wants to go, and where the package led him. And we know Bettina is available because she cut her cheating husband's name off the "Dick and Bettina" sign. I think it's a beautiful way of ending a heartbreak story. He has fresh hope, and so does Bettina. The angel wings and halo that Bettina makes have lead him all through the story, but he didn't know it until the very end.
This film is about possible eventualities in the face of uncertainty, which is why he is left at a four way crossroads at the end, which ties into what he said about the tide coming in tomorrow. You never know what tomorrow could bring... Yeah, after almost two decades of seeing this film for the first time, IT STILL HITS HARD!!! I loved your reaction, VKunia!
I saw this movie when I was very little, and I'm glad I did as I think it has a good influence on how I view things. Also, I like how you have a well-rounded understanding of characters and stories that you react to even after you've only just watched them. Btw, I like your scar. It is a scar right? It gives character to your appearance. Don't panic it's not very noticeable.
Love your reactions. Your personality comes across as very positive and kind. By the by, "castaway" just means "a person who has been shipwrecked and stranded in an isolated place"; it has nothing to do with anyone deliberately casting someone away. Also, "the Southern Pacific" was a railroad in the U.S., not a reference to the South Pacific.
In the opening scene it shows the the arch on her driveway showing the artist and her husband's name, at the end when he delivers the package, his name has been removed and now she's divorced and Tom is single. Tom Hanks sees the angel wings on her truck as she drives off, looks the other 3 directions to choose his new path, turns back to the artist road and smiles. Happy ending. You probably don't read your comments so you won't see this, but a very happy ending is right there.
I remember watching the director talking about the movie to a group of people and bring asked what was in the box. He said it was a solar powered satellite phone with gps on it.
I never liked that joke and I wish he hadn’t made it. The box is very important to Chuck’s character. It represents much of what he was before he was stranded. He was holding on to his own purpose and identity through the hope of seeing Kelly again and the purpose of delivering that box. By suggesting it had the solution to his problem in it, even as a joke, there is an implication that Chuck was being an idiot by not opening it.
Probably the best part of your videos is your analysis. I get new (for me) insights from all of them on movies I've already seen and thought I had analyzed fully. Thanks.
Something a lot of people don't realize watching this movie, but thats so obvious once pointed out, the movie has no score, background music, at all on the island. Its has score in the beginning, but once he wakes up on the island its gone, and only kicks back in as soon as he leaves the island and looks back at it. It was a choice made to further demonstrate just how isolated and alone the character was on the Island, and I love it.
the woman at the end is singer lara white, she died of cancer a few years back. You can see she was missing a finger, cut off by a fan when she was a baby. She does a great job singing amazing grace
I love the ending for this movie, just for how it follows the main theme of the movie: Letting go and keep moving forward. So Chuck had to let go of the love of his life, and his own old life in our society doesn't make much sense, for how given it seems to him, and the package that kept his hope for life has finally been delivered. He is now left on a crossroad, with no certain direction. It's pretty sad, but you gotta keep moving forward, because the sun will rise again, and who knows what the tide will bring. Maybe a red haired beauty.
The movie is a story about how Chuck fell in love with the woman with the wing package. In the beginning of the movie, we see her husband cheating on her, in Russia right?
@@CribNotesI don't know. The whole point of the film is to be open ended. Chuck and we, the audience, are cast away. Sure life brought a new possibility for Chuck, but if he will take it or not, if he will stay in the crossroad, that's all up to us. So sure, it could be that after the ending, he goes after her. So if that's your ending, stick with it.
It was an open ending but not really either. He left the island when the wind was blowing in the direction towards the open sea. The final scene has him at a literal crossroads but the wind was blowing in the direction of the woman that he was also looking. It wrote itself.
@@ADifferentVibe Never noticed the wind. I only saw the wings on the truck, knew it was her husband at the start, never saw she cut the sign or whatever that some people pointed out. Nice to see it from another set of eyes.
The ending had him at the literal crossroads but if you saw the wind blow, it was in the direction of the woman and her mail....a callback to earlier on the island when the wind pointed for him to sail away after 4 years. So the movie does have an open, happy ending. BTW Lari White, the actress who played the woman, passed away a couple years ago.
You missed the ladie’s wing drawing on her pickup door. That was the lady from The package. He ended seeing that and making his decision to go her. It’s what the tide brought in for him. It is kinda a happy ending. 🥰🥲
"My dentist's name is Dr. James Spaulding". For some reason that had me crying laughing the first time I heard it. It even still to this day makes me laugh just thinking about it. Some things just hit you a certain way..
@@thomasbrown9402 No, Kelly's husband is the oral surgeon, Dr. Lovett, to whom Chuck's dentist, Dr. Spaulding (remember the joke that Chuck made to "Wilson" in the cave?), referred Chuck when he had to have a root canal procedure.
They did show he was a certified sailor after the first scene with his girlfriend among his pictures and things was the certificate... so a lot of his ideas to get off the island were in his skillset.
I was a boy scout when I was a kid. We learned a lot of survival stuff. My scoutmaster was a former Navy pilot who had sere training. We learned to survive and learned multiple ways of making fire. It's very hard to do for people who have never done it, but it gets easier with practice
When you said, imagine someone hating you so much that they leave you on an island, makes me wonder if you have seen the Count of Monte Cristo. If you haven't i think you should
At the end, don't you see, he looked at the direction where the lady with the wing graphic paint is heading to her place. She's single and he's single. So he is not alone. He is coming to visit her.
I think only Tom Hanks is capable of starring in a movie where 80% of it is just him on an island and making it so emotionally powerful. I don't think you will ever see someone able to make people cry over an inanimate object on that level again. Side note: if you haven't seen it yet, I would recommend Sully. More Tom Hanks and planes.
Lots of movies deal with person being lost, rescued, yay welcome home, cut. Very few deal with the "okay now what" the day after the welcome home party. Were you declared dead? Did everyone mourn and let go of you? Have they been putting flowers on your grave for four years? Not only is it a lot for him to process, but for everyone who lost him. I can't even imagine the mess. Honestly, I'd likely pick up, move somewhere I'd never been and start over personally.
The movie chronicles the original novel “The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe” written in 1719, but this movie does it with a modern twist. Wilson (who does not talk) takes the character role of Cruso’s tribal friend named Friday (who only speaks in his native tongue). That is why the bloodstained face of Wilson looks like a tribal native. Caruso was a merchant mariner similar to Hanks character who works for FedEx shipping packages. Caruso sent messages out to sea for help, but was never received. FedEx packages went to sea and never got to its destination.
I would love for you to watch the movie the best years of our lives from 1946. It is a beautiful film about how the troops from WW2 had to deal with life after the war. It even cast a real hero who lost his arms and what life was like for him.
Absolutely. The Best Years of Our Lives is an amazing film, both for its time and very relevant today. I've re-watched it over and over and it still gets me every time. Highly recommended.
I'm in my mid 50s and I saw this movie when it came out and I bawled my brains out and I have watched it at least 10-12 times and every viewing it still hurts me emotionally,as also his other 2 movies the green mile &saving private Ryan,two brilliant movies u need to watch
I have only watched this movie once and it was like 5-10 years ago. I thought it was a great movie and i probably cried too if i remember right. I don't know why i have not seen it again but i will see it again sometime this week. :-)
To clarify: The original film is The Thing From Another World (1951). John Carpenter's The Thing (1982) is a sort of remake. Gruesome practical effects. The newest version of The Thing (2011) is a prequel to Carpenter's movie. I've heard that they shot a lot of it with practical effects, so that the visual styles would match up, but then they decided to go with mostly CGI instead.
The fact that VKunia missed the sign of the wings on the truck and how the movie ends with Tom facing the direction of truck, helps makes one of the points of the movie. Being 'life' throws us a lifeline many times, but it can be hard for us to see/catch it. And not just for Tom's character, but maybe the woman also....
Not a happy ending, but a happy-ISH ending... It's heartbreaking, true, but it's realistic. She couldn't just leave her family, including a young child and a husband who - despite appearances - was really looking out for her when he kept her from going to meet him when he first returns. She was devastated, no doubt, at the idea that she had moved on, but almost anyone would have done the same under the circumstances. As other people have pointed out, the angel wings that were on the FedEx box were the same wings that were on the back of her truck so we assume she is the one that lives where he dropped off the package. We see him look in the direction she drives and assume that he went to meet her. Maybe it WAS destiny...
My theory is that his intense work ethic is what drove him to survive, even alone on the small island. In fact, his emotional distance early in the movie is what I think saved him. He wasn't a people person to begin with, so that alone time wasn't as damaging to him as it would be to a more social person. The ironic part is his time alone allowed him to grow. He gained empathy, which he did not have before. He had to lose everything in order to understand what it means to lose everything. The situation with his co-worker at the beginning and end illustrates that in my opinion. He couldn't relate to the co-worker's problems before his time on the island, but he sure could when he made it back to civilization.
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I wanted to write this the second on I clicked on this video.
I had a hunch someone else would be qucker - but I'm surprised to see it was YOU :D
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Wilson is the best example of product placement in any film ever. Brilliant idea to make him a character of his own right.
FedEx didn't do too bad either.
I loved the ending! I just know he went back to the artist's house and they fell in love! That's my ending and I'm sticking to it. ☺❤
That's apparently Tom's head canon, too.
Well, unless she was also married or in a relationship herself, or perhaps she turned out to be gay, too bad for him in that case I guess!
@@carlhartwell7978 he also could have got side swiped by a drunk driver and died seconds after the film ends 😆 your head Canon be whatever you want I guess
That package had a satellite phone and a fully charged battery in it the whole time. That's my head cannon.
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Tom Hanks is a hell of an actor. I don't think I've ever been disappointed watching a film with him in it
You should watch Mazes and Monsters. Probably the worst film he's ever been a part of.
@@TeddyBerry its a fantastic film..you obviously don't do lsd and play d and d.
Watch Elvis.
The Terminal is terrrrrrrrible.
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I loved how bittersweet the ending was. The island taught him to let go of everything he'd taken for granted and to keep going forward, one step at a time. And while his not getting his girlfriend back was incredibly sad, it's still not a tragic ending. He still has a future, and so does she. It's really beautiful.
"you never know what the tide is gonna bring"
Momma always said, "life is like a box of chocolates" you never know which one you'll get!
i think he and kelly were just not meant for each other. i think his true soulmate is the woman at the end, the wings on her truck and the fact that the package was hers are a sign of that
@@madapigi1 And that is some overromantiziced malarky, if I ever heard any.
There are 7,6 Billion people on this earth. If there was only one soulmate for everyone, almost all of us would never meet theirs.
A lasting relationship is lots of work, and despite the "signs" one might read into things at the start, no amount of good faith will make it survive, if you don't put in the work.
@@Quotenwagnerianer its a move lmao I can and I will romanticize it as much as I want.
RIP Lari White. She played the woman in the truck who sent the unopened package. Died in 2018 from cancer.
Didn’t know that, wow, so sad.
That is sucky!
A FedEx commercial during the 2003 Super Bowl parodied the final scene of the film, in which Chuck returns a package to its sender. In this version, the woman answers the door, and when Chuck asks what was in the box, the woman replies: "Just a satellite phone, GPS locator, fishing rod, water purifier, and some seeds.
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Yep classic
hahahah, i didn't know that, it's great but I'm surprised the box didn't have some painkillers...
😆 i remember that.! Lmao
"What's in the box?" Now, where did I hear that before?
Fun fact: there’s no soundtrack while he’s on the island until he leaves. Giving you the sense like he’s really stranded
The moment he realizes that he has freed himself from the island, which had been both his lifeline and his prison, with the music slowly and softly fading in, was one of the best in the film. You can imagine how that would feel, a mixture of both hope and fear.
The woman at the end was the owner of the package, when she leaves he sees the same wings at the back of the truck, so probably chuck will come back there because she bassicaly saved his life
He even painted the wings on his rudimentary sail to carry him over the waves.
I think that Chuck turning his truck by the same way she left is an understanding that he whent after her ..
Inside the package is a satellite cell phone....
@@Menaceblue3 No it wasn't. That was a TV commercial.
@@Menaceblue3 but the battery is out of charge ...
"That's what being by yourself without human contact does to you". *Looks slowly left, then slowly right*
To me the ending (at the crossroads) was in contrast to his situation on the island. Stranded on the island, he was stuck and couldn't move very far in any direction. At the end, the redhead shows him that he can travel in any direction as far as he wants. This is symbolic of being free of his former life. His future choices are wide open and in his hands.
That line “You’re the love of my life” tears me to pieces every time
Almost everyone missed the connection with the guy with the Cowboy hat in the beginning, he was cheating on his wife who was the welding artist at the end of the movie. She cut off his name from the sign at her ranch house and you can see his name (Dick) haha, at the beginning of the movie.
Had never made that connection. Thank you!!
Also one theory in regards to the contents of that one box was that inside was a satellite phone
So cool! So maybe a lot of us are rescued castaways, keeping it together in search of different roads and new opportunities.
I always thought the last package was divorce paper.
@@aintsam9952 you sure you're not thinking of the FedEx commercial that spoofed this around the time it came out?
I watched this with my daughter when she was 12, and the part when Wilson floats away, I looked over and she was bawling.
I felt so bad, and I told her that Wilson would find another home, and a new friend. :(
I lost my wife to cancer back in 2009. We were married for 30 years and the only girl I've ever dated or kissed.I'm 66 now. This is at 19:03 exactly how I want to hug her when I see her again, silent, intense, no excess movement so to concentrate on the touching. The acting level is beyond an Academy Award Oscar Level. The music score is unbelievable. The same song brings at different times , sadness, wistfulness , hope, Resolve.
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I wish you strength and joy, somehow.
I can relate to you, lost the only girl that was ever able to stand my crazy ass, hope both of us will meet up with our ladies one day
Pray you two will be together again in the best of circumstances
@@theshermantanker7043 That's all we can hope for ! I hope your Lady finds you and you , Her !
We can form attachment to anything, including objects and ideas. The island was his home for 4 years, so yes ,it was bittersweet.
I remember watching the show Inside the Actors Studio, Tom Hanks was asked which way did he go at the end?
His reply as he was smiling, "He turned right back around to that lady and made babies with her."
She found a better cowboy.
Nice.
@@johnalden5821 sheriff woody?
That is very likely the most plausible result.
I really felt your relief at "it's a boat... it's a boat!"
I am sure you touched a lot of our souls. Thank you. ❤
A castaway is someone who’s been shipwrecked, but the title is Cast Away, which means something discarded.
"Cast away" doesn't actually mean that, but good observation of the two words rather than one.
@@docsavage8640 What do the words 'cast away' mean to you then?
@@docsavage8640 The title of the movie refers to his friends who 'buried' him and moved on.
@@docsavage8640 what do you mean it doesnt actually mean that?? its exactly what it means LOL
Thank you for knowing that! I thought I was the only one making note of the distinction!
Just a side note to the movie... Note this whole movie was also based on the package with the wings. The girls ex husband was in Russia when the package first arrives and his name Dick is no longer on the sign over the girls farm gate at the end of the movie.
I have been crying with this movie for 21 years. I can’t say enough about Tom Hanks’ performance here. How can a man talking to himself and a volleyball make such an impact? And they wrote the ending perfectly. It would have been so easy to just go with the predictable happy ending. Instead the movie takes you from despair (Chuck contemplating suicide) to hope (he escapes the island) to despair (loss of Wilson) to hope (he is rescued) to despair (Kelly is married to someone else) to hope (he closes his old life by delivering the package and sees new promising life paths in every direction.) It’s brilliant.
And it was a great idea to not have any music at all while he was on the island and then have it start right back up as soon as he's on his way on the ocean. It gives it that much more emotional impact. I went to see this with some friends of mine. They thought it was "boring" but I loved it. Uncultured swine!
"Wilson" is really a symbol of everyone and everything he left behind in civilization, especially Kelly. He felt a tremendous guilt for choosing his job (taking the trip) rather than spending the most important moments with her and losing "Wilson" just brought back all his perceived guilt.
"I certainly hope this incident hasn't put you off flying Miss. Statistically speaking of course, it's still the safest way to travel". -Dude in blue & red tights, 1978.
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That's super, man.
When Kelly and Chuck were in the jeep at the end in the rain, she said his name, which was her asking what they should do now, get back together? ect....he said "you need to go home"
Wilson. Because yelling Spaulding sounds strange.
20:00: Regarding Kelly's husband not waking up: My theory (if this were actually a real-life event) is that her husband probably HAD woken up at some point, and was letting them have their time to themselves. He probably knew that at some point they would have to hash things out and deal with their issues. (Though I'm not sure he was aware of the part where Kelly ran after Chuck, nor would he be thrilled about that.)
Or maybe he was drunk, heavy day...
I agree. He isn’t a villain. Imagine being that guy. You know your wife was in love with this guy who died in a plane crash. You have been married for years and have a child together. Then the phone rings. Chuck is alive and will be back in a couple days. You know this is going to change everything forever.
I mean, yeah, it looks like trusted his wife to make the best decision and gave her time and space to work it out without interfering. In other words, he was a good husband. Who woulda thunk it?
@@johnalden5821 That's one of the things I like about this movie. Other than the two cheaters at the beginning, the rest of the people are good, decent people. Her husband was my favorite character.
I dunno... I don't think he was as "good" as some of you are saying. It seemed clear to me from that first scene spied through the window after Chuck's return that she wanted to go see Chuck but her husband was arguing aggressively against it.
One of the coolest things about this movie if you haven’t noticed. Once he gets on the island they never use a soundtrack except the sounds of the water and island.
The scene where he loses Wilson at sea, and he just drops the oars in the water...gets me every time.
Yeah, that ball was probably the only thing that stood between him and insanity.
Same here
@@abnurtharn2927 he wouldn't have started the fire without wilson. most likely would have died without wilson
if you follow the placement of the camera and the characters at the end, you can tell that he turns back in the direction that the truck w/ the angel wings went and smiles. That last scene was summing the message of the movie up. "Don't fret when you are lost and things look bleak. Something wonderful might show up if you just keep breathing."
The package basically saved his life. At the end it also gave him the opportunity to meet someone new, someone that indirectly, saved his life.
And someone who was a land lubber.
I really liked the ending. It shows that he's at an inflection point in his life, and truly free to go wherever he wants. And the best part is that final shot where he looks in the direction of the redhead, showing the hint of a smile, suggesting that he chooses love. It's subtle, but it's perfect.
sad he did not end up with Kelly but loved his positive attitude to go on and see what tomorrow would bring... he did understand that she had a commitment to her new family and was willing to let her go for the good of them
they were not meant for each other. i think his true soulmate is the woman at the end, the wings on her truck and the fact that the package was hers are a sign of that
One of Tom Hank's best work. I cried so many times each time I watch this film and of course the ending! Thank you for reacting to this beautiful, awesome film! 🥲
The plane crashes and submerges in water, and your first words are "THE PACKAGES!!"
Had me rollin' lol
At the end, with all that seafood, I think I'd be more like Iron Man: "I want an American Cheeseburger"
I'm reminded of Cast Away when the plane crashes at the beginning of the game: Bioshock - too many similarities.
Yeah if I was him seeing that seafood, I'd order a pizza IMMEDIATELY
Pizza...
Same! I LOL. That’s such a great reaction. “The Packages!!!!”
Always remembee your duty before your life😂
The point of the ending is even though he lost his former life, he gets an opportunity to establish a new one that's likely his fate to begin with. If that plane crash never happened or if he just committed suicide on the island, he wouldn't have met the woman at the end.
He intentionally kept one "random" package as a motivation to find a way to get off the island and that one "random" package turned out to be the most significant key to his future. This type of thing happens to many of us in real life. The "random" acts of life can become tremendously valuable to us.
@@davestang5454 Though he almost lost that motivation if it weren't for him testing if he could die the way he wanted to. So many people give up b/c death is a choice opposite emptiness, but many also persevere and make the most of what the tide brings them.
"See ya space cowboy" never have i been so proud.
A technical note on the plot of the movie: Not to distract from all the other great moments where Hank's character finds ways to survive on the island and ultimately leave alive but the FIRE MAKING was actually a pretty dumb way to do it on a desert island with ample sunshine and lots of floating manmade objects washing ashore. Imagine trying to make fires like that hundreds or thousands of times over 5 years in a very labor-intensive way. The smartest way would have been to use a glass or plastic bottle to focus a pinpoint of light from the sun on some dry kindling material. Fashioning a simple little bow with a string and wrapping it around the rotating stick will generate a lot more friction with a lot less effort than using your hands while saving them from damage (like he got in the scenes!) His celebration after starting a fire was not overstated. In addition to cooking food, he could have also distilled fresh water over a fire and heated stones to stay warm at night, along with hundreds of other uses.
This simply is a tour de force for Tom Hanks. So many levels starting with the title and showing how driven he is at the beginning of the movie and how he did not give up even though he contemplated his own end at one point. I have to agree this is one of Hanks' best acting performances.
It cost him his health, between this and Philadelphia; he now has diabetes he reckons due to the weight loss he shifted for both films.
@@shugaroony He shot those movies at least 5 years apart though.
@@richierich7229 Thats what he himself has said on it, whether there is merit on it or not is debatable, but doing that to your body can't be good, its too much of a shock to the system.
Right!? This movie is Tom Hanks talking to a volleyball for most of its running time and it's still somehow riveting. That man is a freaking treasure.
The plane crash scene is a fine cinematic moment; people who recount harrowing incidents, especially after some time has passed, will remember things in sharp detail, often out of sequence, and focus on tiny details and 'what might have beens'.
This is a powerful learning process for the most fundamental parts of our brains; it's connected with the ability to 'map' places and dangers, and is also the source of conditions like PTSD, as well as 'how to avoid that next time'.
I suspect the man who lived through all this is in touch with his fundamental nature in a way few people are.
I think you may have missed the whole point of the ending. The Fedex package that he left at the door was for the girl in the truck. The wings on the package were also painted on the back of the truck and they signified the sail on his raft. Him noticing the wings on her truck is basically telling you that not only was the thought of Kelly keeping him alive but the wings on the Fedex package were too. The ending really exposes the type of person that the viewer is. If you're an optimist you think he followed the girl in truck back to her house. If you're a pessimist, you think he kept driving the opposite direction.
He Followed the Girl ! That little tiny sly grin said it all. It was so slight of a smile. Maybe I imagined it, but it's what I would have wanted. Plus she was a red Head., as was my late wife of 30 years. And I would follow her to the Ends of the Earth .
Or you just didn't get it and walked out of the theater confused lol
@@BrianNIL are you responding to a comment I made on Ad Astra? this is a Cast Away reaction. one of my most favorite movies. I did walk out on Ad Astra.
@@MatthewPettyST1300 lol yeah? My mom was utterly baffled by that meandering mess of a film, slyly commenting something along the lines of "My goodness, it was two and half hours of daddy issues..." Hah she (and anyone else who thought that) is not wrong. There might have been a good film in there somewhere, but the premise and execution was excruciatingly slow.
That said, i actually liked it! Lol what can i say, I thought it was a neat meditation on... Lol whatever psychological baggage the main character was struggling with. i can't say I'm personally that stoic or detached, but i appreciated the cool, withdrawn and slightly broken nature of the MC. Still objectively a dumpster fire, but i couldn't bring myself to dislike it
The woman is also the woman with the man in the cowboy hat at the beginning.
This may mean that the package that kept Hank's character alive was from her to the adulterous cowboy-hat man, or possibly even from him to her.
If so, then the old package may undo whatever caused woman and cowboy hat man to break up (if he's an adulterer to her too, then probably not), or simply remind her of something she'd rather not think about.
Does Hank's character want all this baggage?
The past is what's gone, the present was life on the island alone, the future can be divined a little, but remains unknowable until decisions are made.
Rather wonderful.
The ending was perfect. :)
Kelly leaving her husband and family to go back with him? No, of course not. Heh. And the husband was rather cordial considering he knew what he could possibility lose.
Hanks returned the package and found peace. The implied bit where he hooks up with the hot artist is unnecessary, but leaves a bit of mystery which is okay.
I always thought after 4 years, he reverted into his more primitive human roots and Wilson was his psychological split to help him survive. When he lost Wilson, he became whole again ready to integrate back into society...
Tho I do wonder what he would have done if he didn't lose wilson. I mean, would he keep it? How would he view it after not being dependant on it? tbh it would be kinda funny to imagine him still treating wilson like a human person while interacting with other people, lol.
@@sertu1462 A scene where he's taken aboard the ship; a very long ladder is let down, he barely has the strength to climb, even with people at the top urging him on.
At the top, he collapses to the hot steel deck, takes deep breaths.
Then he suddenly realises and staggers to the ship's railing, to see both raft and Wilson vanishing in the ships' churning wake, never to be seen again.
11:26 The volleyball company is Wilson. Spaulding is a competitor.
Things didn't turn out the way he hoped, but he's alive, home, and free. That's a happy ending.
People should accept that a great loss is never the end. The best is yet to come, always.
After the first time watching this film originally in the theater, I’ve kept coming back to watch it on home video at least once a year. A film that resonates with me like this makes it one of my favorites.
I really liked the ending. I feel like it showed that just because you aren't stuck on a deserted island doesn't mean you can't still feel like a lonely castaway, but you still have the chance of being rescued with every new day.
I really loved this movie, it really touched me on many personal levels. I would do almost anything to erase it from my mind so I can experience it the first time again.
The crash sequence is so harrowing, being there with him in such a hostile, hopeless experience is both frightening and extremely rewatchable.
The ending at the crossroads shows that anything can happen next. He appreciates what he has, isn’t consumed with time anymore, and is free to enjoy each new day. It’s very hopeful and shows that you can overcome adversity or depression, or whatever and that there will eventually be better days.
Enjoyed the reaction video as always. It looked like you didn't notice the wings from the FedEx package on the back of the woman's pickup though as she drove away from Tom Hanks. That detail leaves the audience wondering if he's going to end up with her or drive off in some other random direction.
I think him saying that thing about not knowing what the next sunrise will bring is appropriate in that he lost the love of his life, but that doesn’t mean he’ll never love again.
Four years later and Kelly is married with a 1-1/2 year old baby.
Kelly: "I never gave up hope you were alive."
Men: ....uh-huh
I agree but I also wonder if she did it bc she couldn’t bear to be alone and people kept telling her to stop staying he’s alive.
@@Megan-ir3ze uh-huh
@@jdm1066 I didn’t say that’s what happened. I was just curious 🤣
@@Megan-ir3ze True, she was alone, where he had Wilson to keep him company.
@@Megan-ir3ze I would feel better about it if she was engaged and about to get married, because she was 3 months pregnant. That would have felt like she waited, and was forced to move on. Instead it felt like she waited until the life insurance check came and used it to start a family.
This movie made me feel emotional about a volleyball.
Same😂
In the end he wasn't lost, he just saw what the waves brought him. The new girl.
"I have ice in my glass." 🧊
That line always stuck with me to appreciate the simple things because your simple things is luxury to others.
Tom Hanks is so incredible at taking a simple concept and brings so much character to it! This and the terminal are absolutely amazing movies!
I hated that ending for over 15 years I would say, but then I stopped hating it. It's sad, depressing, but realistic. You got to keep going, keep fighting, it's not over until it's over.
Did you notice that the entire time he was on the island there was no music. The music started back when he made it over the big wave.
Only Cast Away will make you feel and shed a tear for a volleyball.
Cast Away
@@oaf-77 a bit anal are we? Amazed you caught the misstep on the title but not the "she'd". Excuse my fat fingers on a smart phone.
This isn't a love story. It's a story about how hope overcomes all. That's why it ends the way it does.
Back in the day when this came out, it was a popular joke that the "Angel package" contained a satellite phone and solar charger 😂😭
That's what the director always says was in the package, when asked in interviews.
Cast Away: the first movie to make people cry over a volleyball...
I'm not saddened by the ending. To me the saddest part was when Wilson floated away and he breaks down crying.
About the ending: First, of course Kelly's husband woke up. But to me, he made a conscious decision to stay out of it. He knows his input can only hurt, and he stayed put and let Kelly and Chuck come to their own conclusions. Imagine how scary that must have been for him, to know his wife is going to have to make a decision and he's powerless to even put in his own input. I think he's a far better husband than you credit him with being.
Chuck and Kelly wanted to be together, but they both knew it was already too late. Not just Chuck and Kelly were involved, now Kelly's husband and especially her child were in the picture.
Chuck states in his speech that he has to keep going, because he's learned that tomorrow the tide might bring him a sail..
When Bettina (the red-haired woman at the end) gives him directions and he realizes who she is, he stands at the crossroads and looks each direction, finally settling on Bettina's direction. He smiles, because he just found a sail that the tide brought him. He knows where he wants to go, and where the package led him. And we know Bettina is available because she cut her cheating husband's name off the "Dick and Bettina" sign.
I think it's a beautiful way of ending a heartbreak story. He has fresh hope, and so does Bettina. The angel wings and halo that Bettina makes have lead him all through the story, but he didn't know it until the very end.
This film is about possible eventualities in the face of uncertainty, which is why he is left at a four way crossroads at the end, which ties into what he said about the tide coming in tomorrow.
You never know what tomorrow could bring...
Yeah, after almost two decades of seeing this film for the first time, IT STILL HITS HARD!!!
I loved your reaction, VKunia!
The ending is very similar to "Forrest Gump", with the feather catching the wind and a new hopeful moment starts all over again.
I saw this movie when I was very little, and I'm glad I did as I think it has a good influence on how I view things. Also, I like how you have a well-rounded understanding of characters and stories that you react to even after you've only just watched them.
Btw, I like your scar. It is a scar right? It gives character to your appearance. Don't panic it's not very noticeable.
Love your reactions. Your personality comes across as very positive and kind.
By the by, "castaway" just means "a person who has been shipwrecked and stranded in an isolated place"; it has nothing to do with anyone deliberately casting someone away.
Also, "the Southern Pacific" was a railroad in the U.S., not a reference to the South Pacific.
But the title isn't "Castaway", it is "Cast Away".
In the opening scene it shows the the arch on her driveway showing the artist and her husband's name, at the end when he delivers the package, his name has been removed and now she's divorced and Tom is single.
Tom Hanks sees the angel wings on her truck as she drives off, looks the other 3 directions to choose his new path, turns back to the artist road and smiles. Happy ending.
You probably don't read your comments so you won't see this, but a very happy ending is right there.
I remember watching the director talking about the movie to a group of people and bring asked what was in the box. He said it was a solar powered satellite phone with gps on it.
I never liked that joke and I wish he hadn’t made it. The box is very important to Chuck’s character. It represents much of what he was before he was stranded. He was holding on to his own purpose and identity through the hope of seeing Kelly again and the purpose of delivering that box. By suggesting it had the solution to his problem in it, even as a joke, there is an implication that Chuck was being an idiot by not opening it.
@@stt5v2002 haha maybe he really was an idiot for not opening it LoL
@@stt5v2002 Both can be true.
Probably the best part of your videos is your analysis. I get new (for me) insights from all of them on movies I've already seen and thought I had analyzed fully. Thanks.
Something a lot of people don't realize watching this movie, but thats so obvious once pointed out, the movie has no score, background music, at all on the island. Its has score in the beginning, but once he wakes up on the island its gone, and only kicks back in as soon as he leaves the island and looks back at it. It was a choice made to further demonstrate just how isolated and alone the character was on the Island, and I love it.
the woman at the end is singer lara white, she died of cancer a few years back. You can see she was missing a finger, cut off by a fan when she was a baby. She does a great job singing amazing grace
I love the ending for this movie, just for how it follows the main theme of the movie: Letting go and keep moving forward. So Chuck had to let go of the love of his life, and his own old life in our society doesn't make much sense, for how given it seems to him, and the package that kept his hope for life has finally been delivered. He is now left on a crossroad, with no certain direction. It's pretty sad, but you gotta keep moving forward, because the sun will rise again, and who knows what the tide will bring. Maybe a red haired beauty.
The movie is a story about how Chuck fell in love with the woman with the wing package. In the beginning of the movie, we see her husband cheating on her, in Russia right?
@@CribNotesI don't know. The whole point of the film is to be open ended. Chuck and we, the audience, are cast away. Sure life brought a new possibility for Chuck, but if he will take it or not, if he will stay in the crossroad, that's all up to us. So sure, it could be that after the ending, he goes after her. So if that's your ending, stick with it.
It was an open ending but not really either. He left the island when the wind was blowing in the direction towards the open sea. The final scene has him at a literal crossroads but the wind was blowing in the direction of the woman that he was also looking. It wrote itself.
@@ADifferentVibe Never noticed the wind. I only saw the wings on the truck, knew it was her husband at the start, never saw she cut the sign or whatever that some people pointed out. Nice to see it from another set of eyes.
The ending had him at the literal crossroads but if you saw the wind blow, it was in the direction of the woman and her mail....a callback to earlier on the island when the wind pointed for him to sail away after 4 years. So the movie does have an open, happy ending.
BTW Lari White, the actress who played the woman, passed away a couple years ago.
You missed the ladie’s wing drawing on her pickup door. That was the lady from The package. He ended seeing that and making his decision to go her. It’s what the tide brought in for him. It is kinda a happy ending. 🥰🥲
The ladies real name was Lari White. She was a country western singer/musician and passed away from Cancer in early 2018.
"I'm gonna guess by plane or boat" bold choices lol
"My dentist's name is Dr. James Spaulding". For some reason that had me crying laughing the first time I heard it. It even still to this day makes me laugh just thinking about it. Some things just hit you a certain way..
Isn't the guy married to Kelly his dentist?
@@thomasbrown9402 No, Kelly's husband is the oral surgeon, Dr. Lovett, to whom Chuck's dentist, Dr. Spaulding (remember the joke that Chuck made to "Wilson" in the cave?), referred Chuck when he had to have a root canal procedure.
This is the first time youve popped up in my feed and as soon as you said “See you Space Cowboy,” I subbed SO HARD
They did show he was a certified sailor after the first scene with his girlfriend among his pictures and things was the certificate... so a lot of his ideas to get off the island were in his skillset.
Wow! Seen this movie at least a dozen to 15 times (DVD), and never spotted that!
I was a boy scout when I was a kid. We learned a lot of survival stuff. My scoutmaster was a former Navy pilot who had sere training. We learned to survive and learned multiple ways of making fire. It's very hard to do for people who have never done it, but it gets easier with practice
When you said, imagine someone hating you so much that they leave you on an island, makes me wonder if you have seen the Count of Monte Cristo. If you haven't i think you should
*Yes! Absolutely!*
Amazing movie!!
Your reactions are so relatable. This movie made me cry over and over again. Right when I'd get my sore, damp eyes to dry- *new tears* .
Wilson deserved and Oscar with that performance
There is a feature that shows Wilson's dialog, turns out he's a jerk
“Her husband is gonna come out with a broom any second” 😂
At the end, don't you see, he looked at the direction where the lady with the wing graphic paint is heading to her place. She's single and he's single. So he is not alone. He is coming to visit her.
I think only Tom Hanks is capable of starring in a movie where 80% of it is just him on an island and making it so emotionally powerful. I don't think you will ever see someone able to make people cry over an inanimate object on that level again. Side note: if you haven't seen it yet, I would recommend Sully. More Tom Hanks and planes.
saving private ryan
I love that there are no sounds or music until he escapes the island only then does a score come in this shows how impactful music is in our souls
suggestion : The Pianist (2002)
Lots of movies deal with person being lost, rescued, yay welcome home, cut. Very few deal with the "okay now what" the day after the welcome home party. Were you declared dead? Did everyone mourn and let go of you? Have they been putting flowers on your grave for four years? Not only is it a lot for him to process, but for everyone who lost him. I can't even imagine the mess. Honestly, I'd likely pick up, move somewhere I'd never been and start over personally.
He’s a school teacher from Iowa.
He teaches English composition.
😂
The movie chronicles the original novel “The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe” written in 1719, but this movie does it with a modern twist. Wilson (who does not talk) takes the character role of Cruso’s tribal friend named Friday (who only speaks in his native tongue). That is why the bloodstained face of Wilson looks like a tribal native.
Caruso was a merchant mariner similar to Hanks character who works for FedEx shipping packages. Caruso sent messages out to sea for help, but was never received. FedEx packages went to sea and never got to its destination.
I would love for you to watch the movie the best years of our lives from 1946. It is a beautiful film about how the troops from WW2 had to deal with life after the war. It even cast a real hero who lost his arms and what life was like for him.
Absolutely. The Best Years of Our Lives is an amazing film, both for its time and very relevant today. I've re-watched it over and over and it still gets me every time. Highly recommended.
I'm in my mid 50s and I saw this movie when it came out and I bawled my brains out and I have watched it at least 10-12 times and every viewing it still hurts me emotionally,as also his other 2 movies the green mile &saving private Ryan,two brilliant movies u need to watch
I have only watched this movie once and it was like 5-10 years ago. I thought it was a great movie and i probably cried too if i remember right. I don't know why i have not seen it again but i will see it again sometime this week. :-)
I'd like to see you react to John Carpenters The Thing and the prequel called The Thing (they have the same name).
To clarify: The original film is The Thing From Another World (1951).
John Carpenter's The Thing (1982) is a sort of remake. Gruesome practical effects.
The newest version of The Thing (2011) is a prequel to Carpenter's movie. I've heard that they shot a lot of it with practical effects, so that the visual styles would match up, but then they decided to go with mostly CGI instead.
I'd suggest watching the 1982 movie first. It's more suspenseful without knowing the prior events. Also, the prequel was kinda underwhelming.
@@pvanukoff I agree with everything you said John Carpenter's should be watched first.
When I saw this at the cinema the guy that was working told me and my friends that this was an alien film and to keep an eye out for them...
The fact that VKunia missed the sign of the wings on the truck and how the movie ends with Tom facing the direction of truck, helps makes one of the points of the movie. Being 'life' throws us a lifeline many times, but it can be hard for us to see/catch it.
And not just for Tom's character, but maybe the woman also....
Not a happy ending, but a happy-ISH ending...
It's heartbreaking, true, but it's realistic. She couldn't just leave her family, including a young child and a husband who - despite appearances - was really looking out for her when he kept her from going to meet him when he first returns. She was devastated, no doubt, at the idea that she had moved on, but almost anyone would have done the same under the circumstances. As other people have pointed out, the angel wings that were on the FedEx box were the same wings that were on the back of her truck so we assume she is the one that lives where he dropped off the package. We see him look in the direction she drives and assume that he went to meet her. Maybe it WAS destiny...
"Her husband's going to come out with a broom any second." WHAT A GREAT LINE, VKUNIA!
My theory is that his intense work ethic is what drove him to survive, even alone on the small island. In fact, his emotional distance early in the movie is what I think saved him. He wasn't a people person to begin with, so that alone time wasn't as damaging to him as it would be to a more social person. The ironic part is his time alone allowed him to grow. He gained empathy, which he did not have before. He had to lose everything in order to understand what it means to lose everything. The situation with his co-worker at the beginning and end illustrates that in my opinion. He couldn't relate to the co-worker's problems before his time on the island, but he sure could when he made it back to civilization.
When I was little, I cried when he lost Wilson
i was today's year old when i learned i love watching other people reacting to some of my favorite movies for the first time...this is beyond dope
"Imagine if someone hates you so much they send you to an island.." Napoleon will remember that
*golf clap*
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@F-zero91maru High powered lasers count?
Also instead of Napoleon Bonaparte there was Antonio López de Santa Anna and his exile on Staten Island.