Cast Away – Movie

There was a man.  He was an employee of FedEx courier.  His name was Chuck Noland, he lived in U.S.A.  He always said to the other workers to be prepared for anything.  Chuck was a kind of man who always interacted with people.  He never liked if people were not around.  

One day he said to the other workers, “We must deliver FedEx packages to Russia.  We are flying tonight”.  He was at the airport when suddenly his tooth started aching.   That time he also got a call from his friend, Kelly.      He attended the call.  In that call he said ,“I have to go to the dentist after I deliver the packages to Russia”.  His friend Kelly got shocked and said “I’ll come to the airport”.  Chuck said, “Okay”.  Kelly then took her friend Chuck’s car and drove all the way to the airport.  Kelly’s friend Chuck saw her entering the airport and ran to her.  Kelly then stopped the car and waited for her friend to come and stand next to the car.  Chuck understood and stood next to the car.  Kelly then let him inside the car.  She gave him a locket which had a clock and a photo of her and said, “This locket was given to me by my great grandfather. Now I am passing it on to you. Keep it safe”.  Chuck promised to keep it safe.  He said ,“I think I have to go”.   He bid good bye to Kelly and left.  In half way he turned back to see Kelly and ran to her again.  This time he gave Kelly a present and said, “Open it after you reach your home”. 

He boarded the flight.  He was sitting on his seat with the locket wide open and was seeing the photo.  He slept off after sometime.  As soon as he woke up, he rushed to the washroom.  He washed his face.  As he was washing there was a crash in the plane due to a thunder storm.  He came out of the washroom.  One of the pilots gave him a life jacket and told him to be in his seat.   He suddenly saw the locket Kelly gave on the floor.  He went to take it.  As soon as he took the locket and turned back.  He saw there was a lot of water on the floor.  Everybody except Chuck had jumped out of the plane.  Chuck then took his life boat and jumped out of the plane.  He had forgotten his life jacket.  He then fell down on the Pacific Ocean.  He didn’t know what to do that he climbed on his life boat and slept off. 

The next day when he woke up, he found himself in an unknown Island.  He started screaming,  “Hello, Hello”.  But there was no answer.  He then understood that he was the first person to come to such a no-man Island.  He had to hunt for food, find water and so on.  Every day he woke up and searched for a human being but there was no one.  One day as he was strolling around the Island in search of food and water.  He found one of the FedEx packages floating in the water.  He ran to get it.  Like that every day he found new FedEx packages and took it.     

One day he decided to open all the FedEx packages.  As soon as he opened the first FedEx package, he found a video tape.  He thought, “What is the use of a video tape in such an Island where there is no player?” and he kept that next to him. 

He opened the second FedEx package.  In that package there was girls’ gown.  He thought, “As if any girl would come to such an Island” and he kept it next to him.  When he opened the third package, he found a football with the name Wilson on it.  He kept that also in the side.    

Like that he opened all the FedEx packages except one package.  He knew it would be of no use that he just left the package.   He thought, “I think the girl’s gown and the football will be useful”.  He used the net of the girl’s gown for catching fish.  One day as he was catching fish something bit him on his arm.  It was bleeding.  Then he put the blood in the football and made a face out of it. He then thought of his friend Kelly.  He said to himself, “Well,  I’ll think the football as Kelly”.  From that day onwards he kept the football next to him pretending that his friend Kelly was standing.  That gave him a lot of courage. 

In one of the packages he found an ice skating shoe. He used the blade of the shoe as a knife. Chuck also extracted his tooth, using the blade of the shoe.  

After four years, one day he noticed a broken door along the shore. He decided to get out of the island by building a raft using the broken door.  He built the raft and waited for the wind to blow in the direction that would help him sail. Finally, when the time arrived, he took a stick and started rowing.  Many times, he was pushed away into the Island due to those waves.  He didn’t give up.  Finally, he got tired and said to himself , “I have to rest, I’ll try again tomorrow”.    This time he somehow managed to cross the waves. 

He was so overjoyed.  When night came, he slept.  One morning as he was busy enjoying the view.  Suddenly the football he thought always thought as Kelly fell out.   He turned back and noticed the football, which was his favourite friend in the island missing.  He looked in the water and saw the football floating.   He screamed, “Wilson” and was trying to reach the ball with his hand but failed as the football had gone way too far.   He started crying.  He suddenly felt he had lost all hope to live. He just stayed there doing nothing.   

Suddenly he saw a ship with the name FedEx labelled on it. He tried screaming out, “Hey I am Chuck”. People noticed and rescued him.  Finally, he reached his home. Everybody was able to recognize.  He then freshened up. 

He went to his friend Kelly’s home and found out that she had married someone else. He was so sad.  When Chuck was in the island and nobody was there, he was literally lonely. Now when he was back to his home, his love of his life had married somebody else and he felt lonely again.

My dad introduced this movie to me on the day he extracted his wisdom tooth. He was unable to speak. So he asked me to watch this movie. 🙂 

You can watch this movie on Netflix