11/9/2022 0 Comments Cast away raftAs our political frustrations have caused us to attack our friends and neighbors with differing opinions, we need to Be The Whale. As so many have tired of Zoom calls and socially distanced happy hours, we need to Be The Whale. The whale helps save Tom Hanks by this simple act of being present and looking out for this person in dire straits.Īs we enter the 10th month of this pandemic and so many have suffered physical, emotional, and financial hardships, now is the time to Be The Whale. Alas, a friendly, curious whale who had been accompanying Hanks throughout his sea voyage notices the ship and shoots a geyser of water on Hanks to wake him up, alert him, just when he needed it the most. And then suddenly we see his shot at being rescued, by a passing freighter ship, yet he is too weak and tired to notice. For a man who had endured unspeakable hardships for years on a deserted island it seemed like an unceremonious way to go out. It is a heart-wrenching scene, especially since we have not stopped crying from moments earlier when his beloved friend Wilson, the loyal volleyball, falls off his broken perch and drifts away, unable to be rescued by Hanks. To die alone, lost, in the middle of the vast, unforgiving ocean. He held the battered oars in his hands and in his last act of personal autonomy he surrenders by gently placing them into the ocean. Cast away raft movie#Towards the end of the Tom Hanks movie “Castaway” we see his character, Chuck Noland, sitting lifelessly on the edge of a ramshackle raft he built that was falling apart due to the harsh conditions of his ocean voyage.
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