求CAST AWAY 英文影评

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下面三段影评供参考：
1. Robinson's Return
Tom Hanks and Robert Zemeckis teams again and deliver a nice film. It is not as good as "Forrest Gump" but is a very viewable movie.

The story recreates in some measure the experiences of Robinson Crusoe transposed to our times. A plane crash launches suddenly a FedEx executive on a desert island and leaves him all by himself. His options are very few and the abrupt jump from modern civilization to a stone age's environment is a harsh experience to be sure.
Chuck Noland, as his famous predecessor, stubbornly fights to survive in that precarious background. Worst of all the debris he is able to collect, are by far, less useful than Robinson's. Still he sticks to life.
The last part of the motion picture faces the watcher with a complex and heartbreaking dilemma.

It is not an easy task to keep the audience's attention with great part of the action limited to this barren surroundings. Nevertheless Tom Hanks gives one of his best performances, including a physical transformation, which took him more than a year to accomplish.

All in all it is a very commendable film for different audiences. Enjoy!

2.The Longest Vacation of Your Life
The moneymen must have been biting their fingernails over this one. They know Tom Hanks can carry a movie, but can Tom Hanks BE the movie? I'd say the answer is "yes," in a quiet sort of way.
Chuck Noland (TH) is a fast-talking, time-obsessed workaholic with just enough charm to keep him from being totally obnoxious. He has a big job, probably as an industrial engineer in time management for FedEx, which is ironically omnipresent throughout the movie. Chuck barely has time to court the lovely Helen Hunt (her talents totally wasted in this vapid role). He exchanges Christmas presents with her in the car at the airport before he takes off on his fateful voyage.

The plane crashes into the sea near an atoll/island. The crash is frighteningly horrific and terrifying. All hands are lost except Chuck who is thrown free of the wreckage and driving propellers, and he struggles onto shore. Up until this time, the movie is full of movement, sound, voices and has a rather brittle frenetic feel. Now all is silence. Chuck slowly gets his bearings and we are shown scenes of him trying to cope with his new situation. FedEx cargo has washed ashore with him, and he opens boxes containing ice skates, a courtier gown and a volley ball that he names "Wilson" after its maker. He is clumsy and has accidents, but we cannot help but admire his perseverance. After grueling attempts, he finally gets a fire started and dances around it in pure Tarzan style congratulating himself to the heavens above. A pause---and it is four years later. The audience gasps "Four years!" The physical changes in Chuck are astounding. From an open-faced, slightly pudgy all-American boy, he has been transformed into a gaunt, sinewy, bearded predator with wary shifting eyes.

With great bravery he opts to try and find civilization rather than either suicide or living out his days alone. He painstakingly builds a raft and turns his back on the only safety he has known for four years. After great suffering and privitation, he is rescued and flung back into civilization.

He reunites with his now-married girlfriend who announces he "is the love of her life." Does she realize the man standing before her is an entirely different person than the one who left her? Maybe. She goes unwillingly back to her family. Chuck is clearly uncomfortable in almost all social situations and drives to the desolate west, stopping at a crossroads wondering what direction to take.

Tom Hanks is marvelous in his role. (It seems I forever say the same thing, because he is always "marvelous in his role.") The film could have cut out maybe twenty minutes and not suffered a loss. What is amazing is how he keeps your total attention and interest whether he is building a raft or talking to a volleyball.

3.Out of sync
The skin suntanned. More hair, less pounds. A puzzled look.
Four years stranded on an island can leave us with much more than sand in our skin.
Four years can change our priorities.
The everyday commodities can mean nothing compared to the safety of knowing when we will drink a glass of ice water.
The necessity to relate to other people acquires a worthy value when, drowned in the deepest solitude, we start to talk to a volleyball.
And those are some of the hard lessons Chuck Noland learns.
Cast Away is a rather optimistic vision of how an ordinary man, obsessed with the clock, is forced to let go of the notion of time, physically and emotionally.
Tom Hanks is Chuck, a Fedex systems analyst; expert in problem-solving, in connecting people; for him, every minute counts, time is worth everything. A clock is crucial to the success of every task
And while his busy agenda keeps him in places like Russia, Asia or Paris, in Memphis his girlfriend Kelly waits for him.
One Christmas eve, Chuck has to go away again, leaving Kelly with the words "I'll be right back" floating in the air.
Life can be full of such ironies.
So, instead of coming back, Chuck's plane crashes and leaves him stranded on a desert island for four years.
Four years where surviving is the challenge. Learn to fish, to open a coconut, find a shelter, lit a fire, fight nature.
And then after overcoming all obstacles, what matters is live. So Chuck starts a rebirthing: talks to a volleyball, which he calls Wilson, and it's a sort of conscience to confide all his fears, frustrations and desires.
Finally, all the conditions are given for the survivor to return to civilization.
To a world that moved on, where time didn't stop, a world out of sync with Chuck.
Cast Away is brilliant showing us how irreversible is the past and how marked we are with our experiences.
Director Robert Zemeckis displays Chuck's life changes with a clean and simple technique. Overwhelming and busy at first, slow and full of silences during his isolation, reflexive and enigmatic at the end.
Hanks proves his effectiveness carrying the entire movie in his shoulders. Frenetic and exhausting when we meet him, he transmits his busy way of life. And he is equally persuasive and convincing when he goes to that exceptional situation, sympathetic and also worthy of compassion.
Chucks' spiritual changes are as obvious as his physical changes. He disconnects from reality and after four years, he loses that spark that shines in our eyes, result from our everyday contact with others.
And once his hope to return to his loved ones is given to him, how difficult is to find that you don't fit anymore in that life. What can one do?
Smile and look the possibilities the road offers you