Regardless, it's a great noir film.

When I just watched this "Desert Island", the film gave me the shock of Tom Hanks' dedication to life. This time Tom Hanks plays a man named Chunk. Chunk was originally a busy office worker. He was often too busy with his work to spend time with his family and fiancee, and he couldn't even take a holiday for Christmas. He didn't have a seemingly endless amount of personal time (ironically) until a courier plane crashed him and dumped him on an uninhabited desert island. Chunk had to go into action to keep himself alive. He began to learn to smash coconuts to drink coconut milk, collect the dew from each leaf, learn to fish and catch crabs with a fork, and learn to face loneliness alone: ​​talking to a picture of his fiancée in his pocket watch and a volleyball named "Willson" every day. He has been strong and survived, using everything he knows about survival. It was not until four years later that he finally succeeded in building a simple raft. With the help of the changing direction of the monsoon, it floated to a place 1,000 miles away from the original desert island, and was found and rescued by the people on the big ship on the route.
This is a story told in a large amount of space in the film. In my eyes, Chunk played by Tom Hanks is like a god-like existence.
In contrast, how many of us "university talents" can survive in these environments? It's really startling.
For more than 20 years, what we have been taught the most is to study hard and find a good job in the future. But is life really that simple? Not to mention whether it is true that "studying hard will find a good job", if I encounter a situation like Chunk in my life, whether I can survive like him or not will be a problem. In the face of a crisis, we lack too many survival skills. Chunk's first instinct in a plane crash was to put on an oxygen mask, put on a life jacket, and hold on to the inflatable lifeboat (which is what kept him alive). Then on the deserted island, he would use wood chips to rub bricks and wood to pick up the goods, climb to the commanding heights of the island to observe the terrain, and make his own raft... These basic survival skills, I am ashamed that I have not learned any of them. Is this our own problem or is it a problem with the education system?
Back to movies. After watching it at the time, I felt that the second half of the movie had some profound meaning, because its harmony was completely different from before, but I didn't think about it at that time.
Looking back on this movie after a while, I realized that "The Rest of the Island" is actually a noir movie.
Chunk was trapped on a desert island before, desperately trying to survive, and wanted to escape (was Cast away). However, when he did come back, he lost his way and desperately wanted to leave (or was Cast away). Isn't this utter irony?
When a person is in the most difficult time, his dreams support him. However, after he got rid of the difficulties and walked into his dream, his dream gave him a fatal blow. If the first half of "The Rest of the Desert Island" is a test of a person's material and spirituality by the environment of the deserted island, then the second half is a complete denial of the dreams and values ​​pursued by a person in the realistic environment. When the whole world was cheering for Chunk's return, he found out that the fiancee who supported him and waited to marry him turned out to be married to his dentist 3 years ago. Chunk's heart was so sad. There was hope in his worst days, but when he returned after exhausting all his abilities (plus luck), he found that hope had become an extravagant hope. Returning, things are right and wrong, and unforgettable memories are undoubtedly the source of the most heartbreak for returning people.
According to the translation of online experts, Chunk returned to Kelly's (former fiancee) residence at the end of the film, and stood in front of the refrigerator with the dialogue:
"The house is good"
"Yes, the mortgage is also very good"
"What's the daughter's name"
"Katie"
"She She's beautiful"
"She's a jerk"
"I have something I really want to know, the Tennessee football team is now in Nashville?"
"Yeah, my God, it's like this, she was in Houston, she was called the Oiler, and now Call the Giants"
"Houston Oilers are the Tennessee Giants?"
"Yes"
"It's more than that, they made the Supers last year"
"I missed it"
"You'll be sorry, it's just one yard short of winning, they ended up missing one yard"
"..."
"I have full-fat 2% and full-skim milk, and I don't have the half-and-half you like"
"Whatever"

this netizen's understanding is:
"Your family is good"
"Yes, the family burden is also very heavy ." Awesome"
"Have you had a daughter with him yet?"
"His name is Katie"
"Very sweet"
"No, it's really bad."
"I'm just checking? You married my former dentist?"
"Yes . , fate is such an accident, he used to be just your dentist, his name is XX. Now he is my husband"
"Are you really married to my original dentist?"
"Yes"
"Life has changed more than that, We got married three years ago"
"I missed it"
"You will regret it, we are only one step away from getting married, just one step away"
"..."
"My current life, I am what I am now, But it's definitely not as beautiful as you imagined."
"How can it be?"
The scene at the end of the film is very ironic. Chunk, who has experienced heavy wind and rain, is standing at a crossroads, looking at the four directions in confusion, not knowing which way to go. to where he wants to go. Chuck's final statement was actually "I can't even kill myself, I can't do anything about it."
Impotence is the focus of this film. No matter how tough you are against life [the front part of the movie is strongly rendered], life always has a way to beat you [told you in the second half of the movie].


Regardless, it's a great noir film.

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