On being 'Castaway'

a friend popped a question 'you have become 'castaway' for a while. The word 'Castaway' was ringing in my mind, images from the movie 'Castaway' flashed across the silver screens of my mind and then I spent good 2 hours last night watching that movie for the nth time probably.

Every scene in that movie is worth its weight in gold. I'm sure there are better movies than that which I have not watched ,but I dont intend to compare. I shall take this movie for what it is...

This movie has its particular moments and scenes that I love,it draws upon you realities of life,metaphorically woven with an implicit philosophical explanation for those who wish to see..After all you get what you want to see, so what am trying to say here is,'if you think Castaway is just another Oscar movie', go away, right now from this blog!!

Man in his moments of desperation does things that are so totally unexplainable, like, how Hanks befriends the football(?) 'Wilson',for instance. It was heart-wrenching to see him wail in the end when Wison supposedly got engulfed in the ocean.. Relationships,emotions are so circumstantial and many a time have got nothing to do with people!!!

And then the scene about trying to fall to death from a tree high above the cliff is the most beautiful I thought. Suicide is tricky,it cheats on you :) and you thank God for it..nothing in life is more despicable than trying to end it.It is better to go on dumbly, living like waste,with no aspirations,no dreams,nothing whatsoever, than trying to end it,it is a crime...

'Castaway' is about how life puts you in places you never in your wildest dreams could have imagined to be,about how you rebel,loathe,shout,cry,laugh at your situation,about how you learn to cope with what you have,soemtimes how you want to end it all;try and fail at it too, then go on living 'just like that', until you finally muster enough courage to risk it all and dare the oceans,surrendering all you have,be picked up eventually only to discover that things have moved on, changed and you are left far behind...
thats when the 'Hankses' amongst us will surface...

this is what they meant when someone said 'some movies stay forever'...

Note : Suggestions on good movies are welcome...