Post by leslierios on Jan 2, 2012 23:33:04 GMT -5
Cast Away, is a story of man who is forced into the wrath of nature when his mail carrier malfunctions and crashes into the ocean near a small, uninhabited island. Tom Hanks, who plays the main character, is the only person to survive the accident and is then forced to fend for himself for the next couple of years. This ties in to two of the most common transcendentalist ideas: nature, and self reliance. This movie is interesting with these concepts because in order to survive, Tom Hanks had to put the two together. Although his self reliance was involuntary, he is forced to adapt to his surroundings as he goes. At first he fights nature; getting frustrated with not being able to make a fire and learning that hunting is not an easy task. However, as the story unfolds, the audiences sees him excepting nature's tendencies and also excepting how unpredictable nature can be. He learns from all of these new experiences and becomes self reliant while using nature to help him.