Cast Away

何回観ても楽しめる バレーボールをしている知人に貸したら 「ウィルソ〜ン」と喜んでました

観る度に伏線が回収される奥の深い物語｡

物語割愛、個人的感想のみ どんなにつらい、困難な状況でもこれまで培った知識が精神を安定させるということが 描かれている素晴らしい映画だと思った。非常に前向きになれる作品だと感じるし、 これだけきつい状況でも自分次第でどうにでもなる可能性がある、と思わせてくれる点が非常にいい。 (ここからは個人的な妄想というか便所の落書きみたいなものです) 作中で出てきたバレーボールに書かれていたお友達、ウィルソンくん。 このウィルソン君、実は悪魔をモチーフにしたデザインなのかな？と思いました。 理由としては、息子共々トムハンクスは悪魔崇拝宗教に所属していること、 2009年のMTVアワードでウィルソン君そっくりの禍々しい衣装（笑）で出演していた レディーガガなどがあげられます。邪推ですがその辺も加味して二度目を観ても 面白い作品でした。

トムハンクスの演技が魅力的です。 こんな風に何とかして希望を持って生きる。大事なことを考えさせられました。

フェデックスのシステムエンジニアを乗せた飛行機が太平洋に墜落。無人島に流れ着いた主人公（チャック）がサバイバル生活の挙げ句、手製の筏で外洋へと脱出し、救助されるまでの４年間を描きます。彼の生きる支えになったのは、搭乗前まで付き合っていた恋人の存在でした。物語はこの２つの異なるストーリーをめぐって進みます。絡み合っているようでいて、今一つ絡みの悪い２つの物語。その真意を私なりに咀嚼できたのは物語も終局に差し掛かり、改めて原題のもつ含意に意識を向けた時でした。 原題『キャスト・アウェイ』には、大きく分けて２つの意味が存在します。 ひとつはトム・ハンクス演じる主人公がまさにそうなったように、遭難し離れ小島に流れ着くこと。訳語としては「難破する」、「漂流する」といった意味があてはまります。実際、映画の中ではかなりの尺がこの漂流生活の描写に使われていました。 一方、この映画にはもう一つのキャスト・アウェイが描かれています。それが「投棄する、捨て去る」といった意味を持つキャスト・アウェイです。注意したいのはそれらが決して受動的な［Casted away]ではないということですね。このダブル・ミーニングを意識して映画を観るか観ないかで、鑑賞者の理解が大きく変わる映画だな、というのが鑑賞後の素直な感想でした。 最愛の恋人との二度の別れを経験した主人公が、最後に同僚のスタンの家で静かに語るシーン。描かれた台詞はこうです。 「生きよう、何が何でも。生き延びるのだ。呼吸し続けるのだ。何も望みがなくても、二度と戻れなくても」 「これからどうするか？息をし続ける。明日も太陽が昇り、潮が何かを運んでくる」 この台詞、ほぼ同じ内容でありながら、かつかつ命を繋ぐことはできていた島での生活を捨て、最後には無謀ともいえる船出へと挑む漂流譚の述懐として語られる一方、最愛の人を失った彼のこの先の生きかたについても語っているのですね。意志をもって生きるということは何かを捨て去っていくことだ、という意味が、２つの噛み合わない物語を貫く伏線として機能するからこその「キャスト・アウェイ」なのでしょう。 それでも息続ける彼が、過去と決別して向かっていくのは天使の羽の女性の住処でした。冒頭、溶接作業のかたわら、ロシアで愛人を囲っている夫のもとへキャスト・アウェイの書類を送っていた彼女です。期せずしてそれを空輸し無人島で拾ったことによって彼は、「救われた」。これが、２つのちぐはぐな物語を結びつけるもう一つの伏線なのだろうと思いました。 そうした意図は理解した上で、しかしこれらの別れをめぐる物語が、なお余分な贅肉をまとっているように見えてしまうのは何故なのでしょうか。愛する彼の遭難後、４年もしないうちに新たな家庭をもち、第二子まで授かっている恋人のキャスト・アウェイに一抹の浮薄さを感じるからなのか、はたまた最後のシーンで通りすがる女性が天使の羽その人であることに気づき、彼女が去って行った方角へと物欲しげに目をやる彼の「割り切りの早さ」にそこはかとない軽薄さを覚えたからなのか。それらの何気ない描写が、「息をし続ける」彼の静かなクライマックスの語りまでも軽いものに変えてしまったのは、少し残念でした。 A plane carrying a FedEx systems engineer crashes in the Pacific Ocean. The film depicts the four years of the protagonist's (Chuck) life on the uninhabited island until, after a life of survival, he escapes to the open sea on a homemade raft and is rescued. The only thing that kept him alive was the existense of his girlfriend, with whom he had been in a relationship before boarding. The story moves around these two different stories. Two stories that seem to be intertwined, but are not quite intertwined well. It was only towards the end of the story that I was able to digest the true meaning of the story, when I became aware once again of the connotations of the original title. The original title Cast Away has two main meanings. The first is to be lost and washed up on a remote island, as Tom Hanks' character does. It can be translated 'shipwrecked' or 'adrift'. In fact, a considerable amount of the film is devoted to depicting this drifting life. On the other hand, the film depicts another cast-away, which means 'to throw away'. It is important to note that they are never passive 'cast-ed away'. My honest impression after watching the film was that the viewer's understanding of the film changes greatly depending on whether or not they watch the film with this double-meaning in mind. The scene where the protagonist, who has experienced two break-ups with his beloved lover, speaks quietly at the end of the film at the home of his colleague Stan. The dialogue depicted is this. 'Somehow I had to stay alive. I had to keep breathing. Even though there was no reason to hope, And all my logic said that I would never see this place again.' 'And I know what I have to do now. I gotta keep breathing. Because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring?" These lines, which are almost identical in content, are a recollection of the drifting tale of a man who abandons his life on an island where he had managed to hold on for dear life, and finally sets out on what could be described as a foolhardy voyage, but also of the way he will live after losing the love of his life. Cast Away" is a foreshadowing of the meaning of willful living, of leaving something behind, which runs through two stories that don't quite mesh. Nevertheless, he continues to breathe, and it is to the dwelling place of the woman with the angel wings that he heads, having made a break with the past. At the beginning of the film, while welding, she was sending Cast Away papers to her husband, who has a mistress in Russia. He unexpectedly airlifted and was 'saved' by having picked it up on a deserted island. This, I thought, was another foreshadowing that tied together the two disjointed stories. Understanding these intentions, however, why do the stories surrounding these partings still seem to be too excessive fat? Is it because we feel a certain flimsiness with his cast-away lover, who has a new family and a second child less than four years after his beloved's disaster, or is it because we have witnessed his voracious glance toward the direction to a woman passing by in the final scene immediately after he noticed that she was an angel's feather herself, and the description made us felt a certain frivolity in his "quickness of decision"? It was a little disappointing that these casual descriptions turned even his quiet climactic narrative, in which he 'keep breathing', into something lighter.

最後が、何を言いたいのか、モヤモヤするけど、それも、いいのかも。

ありがとう。

トム・ハンクスが高齢になり以前のように活躍できないのは残念。孤独になると一人言を言うようになるのはホビットのゴクリや釣ったヒラマサを隠して遭難した人だけではない。親友のバレーボール・ウィルソンとの別れがこの映画が最も盛り上がる所なのだろうか？

Il film, che avevo visto in televisione, non mi aveva colpito solo per l'analogia con Robinson Crusoe, che nel romanzo di Daniel Defoe simboleggia la capacità umana, nei frangenti difficili, di sfruttare le risorse fisiche e intellettive. Nell'ingegnere informatico impersonato da Tom Hanks e magistralmente diretto da Robert Zemeckis ho visto anche un uomo schiavo del tempo e interessato a sfruttare ogni secondo per incrementare il proprio guadagno economico, poi, di fronte alla solitudine dell'isola dove ha fatto naufragio, un sopravvissuto che, con un grande sforzo di adattamento, si riappropria di ogni momento della giornata, rivalutando il tempo interiore, gli affetti lontani e ingegnandosi per progettare il ritorno. Ho acquistato il film nella 'Special Edition' di 2 DVD, che suggerisco vivamente, per poter seguire le fasi dell'allestimento del set, le dichiarazioni di attori e di quanti hanno realizzato un prodotto davvero ottimo.

Great film one of Tom Hanks best movies. Great picture quality on blu ray speedy delivery.

Superbe film, très poignant.

The theme of people and their possessions and relationships being cast away through life is woven throughout this amazing tale. Tom Hanks transforms before your eyes as he first cast away his girl friend for another seemingly urgent business trip. A career that cast away, or he thinks he must cast away his personal life, or forever put it on hold for another delivery. The fate of life rips him from the seemingly urgency of everyday life and it's false priorities, and casts him away to a life where he must cast away first his worthless pager, then the things that are now worthless in his isolated deserted island life. The seemingly worthless items that wash a shore with him prove to be of great value, like ice skates and the volleyball. As he cast away his preconceived notions of what things are important in life, he so struggles to hang onto the hope of reconnecting with his girl friend. Days of early survival melt into over four years as he finds his only priority in life is to just be able to breath each day, one day at a time. Time is recorded as marks on a wall, not by the precision of watches, clocks and calendars. The physical and emotional transformation of Tom Hanks is beyond remarkable, it is stunning. Yet the best is saved for last. His reunion with his old friends as he steps back into his previous life confronts him with a personal reassessment of what in life is important, not urgent, nor just wasting your life on this earth. He first finds that his old girl friend has in one way cast him away to marry someone else, yet she has followed him as he was lost at sea and his eventual rescue in every detail. Her heart was in some way never letting go of the hope that he might live, yet her head cast away the relationship to allow her to continue on with her life, marry and have children. She almost wants to cast away her husband, children and her comfortable life to return to the love of her life, yet he knows in his heart that he must at last cast away his heart felt hope of someday returning and marrying her. His hope was his life line, yet his hope now must be cast away to free himself to live the rest of his life. He follows his heart in the closing scene to find himself faced with a decision that many of us never allow ourselves to face, that of in which new direction do I live my life. As he stares at the four roads that each lead to four or more irreversible paths with his life, we are left wondering as he is, what life changing choice to make, and which others to cast away. Knowing that the choice of one, casts aside all others. Helen Hunt again proves herself as one of our great dramatic actresses. From her look of heartfelt disappoint as he leaves for another urgent trip, to her uncomfortable feelings as she again reconnects with her lost love. Tom Hanks rises above and beyond acting as he becomes the man who must chose to live or to die with each of life's choices. He faces the pain of isolation by sharing himself with Wilson his imaginary friend. Technically the movie on DVD is spectacular, with the special effects adding the visual impact that the writers envisioned in their imagination. You do not leave the movie when it ends, you yourself begin to examine each time consuming part of your life. Things, jobs and relationships and wonder what should I keep and what should I cast away.

Quando un film si regge benissimo ed emoziona con in pratica un solo personaggio (due?) non c'è molto da aggiungere...