Castaway Movie Themes

In my non-professional opinion, “Castaway” is a wonderful movie full of superb acting, several themes and a great lesson to learn at the end. Tom Hanks played the main role as Chuck Nolan, a man tied down to his job and too busy even for his long-term girlfriend, Kelly. Hanks played his role excellently, and I even read that he actually took time off of the set to lose weight for the “stranded” portion of the film. That way it looked natural and didn’t look fake and editted. One major theme of “Castaway” is time. Time plays a huge role in Chuck Nolan’s life because there’s never enough for him. He’s always on the go, traveling around the world for his job, but never takes time for himself or any of his relationships. He’s always racing the

Another theme of “Castaway” was hope. During his time on the island, Chuck never lost the hope of returning home to Kelly. It’s what kept him alive, it’s what kept him working towards that dream. Had he not have had hope, he would have died on that island, he would never have used his resources, he would have never strived to survive, he would have just died of starvation. My favorite thing about this film was that it taught you a lesson through Chuck’s past mistakes. It taught me, to take time out of the busy schedule that life has for you for those you love, because life goes by, and before you know it, it’s too late. Chuck learned this the hard way on the island and realized how he lived his life “wrong” to his standards. When he tried to fix it it was too late. In conclusion I thought this was a wonderful movie and would rate this five out of five

The first type, “man versus man” is not seen with your typical good-guy versus bad-guy. There never really is any particular fight between the main character, Chuck Noland and any other human. Instead, Chuck being stranded on the island fights with his only friend, Wilson. Wilson is a volleyball that Chuck drew a face on. They have “arguments” with each other about whether or not Chuck can make it off the island. The second type of conflict featured is “man versus nature”. There are several examples of this type in this film, especially because he’s stranded on a deserted island. One example is the storm that caused the plane to crash. Chuck was on a plane when severe weather caused the plane to crash into the ocean. It could not have been controlled, but it made the movie into what it was. Another example is the ocean current waves. When Chuck is trying to return home on the raft, but the dangerous ocean waves were keeping that from happening. In order to solve this problem Chuck uses the bathroom doors as sails to sail over the waves and escape the island. Another type of conflict is “man versus society”. One of the most obvious examples is the whole marriage question between Chuck and Kelly. At the family Christmas they were attending one of the relatives right away asks when they are going to get married. This is a prime example of society trying to push someone into marriage. It is