Castaway

Castaway is an entertaining movie which exhibits several survival skills. The movie grabs your attention and strings you along through exciting and emotional scenes of survival in the wilderness.

The movie is about a man named Chuck Noland who is the only survivor of a plane crash. In a flight over the Pacific Ocean, the FedEx plane Chuck is in crashes, killing everyone onboard except for Chuck. Having survived the crash, he uses an inflatable life boat to carry him to a deserted island. Using the items that wash up on shore from the FedEx plane and by using the island to his advantage, Chuck sets up to survive while he tries to figure out a way to sail into the water to civilization so that he can return to his life that he so abruptly lost.

Castaway can be linked to Outdoor Ed because it is a story of wilderness survival. In order for Chuck to survive, he had to use rational thinking and plan how he would use the island and items he had to his advantage. He also knew what he needed to do in order to survive and even though had gone through something traumatic, kept his mind and did what he needed to do in order to maintain life until able to make a safe escape. In Outdoor Ed we can learn survival skills that could be applied to extreme situations.

I really enjoyed Castaway and found it interesting to watch how Chuck used some of the items that washed onto shore with him. One of the items was a volleyball that he called Wilson and would talk to. Even though it wasn’t a living person, still having Wilson probably helped Chuck to not give up on his plan of escaping the island.

I would definitely recommend you watch this movie, I think you will thoroughly enjoy it.

Castaway. Dir. Robert Zemeckis. Perf. Tom Hanks. 2000. Twentieth Century Fox Film Coporation, 2000. Film.