What Is The Motif Of Time In Cast Away
Cecilia Polanco
Assignment Due: 5/3/18
Film 100-XE60- Professor DeRosa
Castaway
In the movie Castaway the director Robert Zemeckis proves that through the motif of time and clocks as he takes us through a journey in the film through the main character Chuck Noland’s point of view as he finally realizes that only in the absences of being on his timely schedule, or in a situation that wasn’t so important to be on time, that he finally realizes the importance of things in life. His motto at the beginning of the movie was “Time rules us without mercy not caring if we’re healthy or ill, hungry or drunk. It’s like a fire, it could either destroy us or keep us warm because we live or we die by the clock” (Cast Away film 2000). Before his business flight that …show more content…
Her gift to him was a pocket watch that belonged to her granddaddy which she put a picture of herself in. He automatically sets the clock to Memphis time with is where the main Fed Ex hub his; which shows his obsessive attitude towards time and his job. While the plane is falling he was more concerned on saving the pocket watch then himself. After the plane crashes the mise-en-scene is set to the ocean as Chuck drifts onto and Island on half of a yellow life raft. In a medium shot of his first reaction when he reaches in his pants pocket to check his pager immediately after he reaches to his pocket to find the pocket watch to check the time only to realize that both things were no longer work. It is as if time has suddenly stopped on this Island. In this moment, we start to see a change that comes to Chuck as the watch no longer holds a significance of time. It is now a reminder of Kelly and how he wishes he would have used his timely wisely when he was with her. As the film
Assignment Due: 5/3/18
Film 100-XE60- Professor DeRosa
Castaway
In the movie Castaway the director Robert Zemeckis proves that through the motif of time and clocks as he takes us through a journey in the film through the main character Chuck Noland’s point of view as he finally realizes that only in the absences of being on his timely schedule, or in a situation that wasn’t so important to be on time, that he finally realizes the importance of things in life. His motto at the beginning of the movie was “Time rules us without mercy not caring if we’re healthy or ill, hungry or drunk. It’s like a fire, it could either destroy us or keep us warm because we live or we die by the clock” (Cast Away film 2000). Before his business flight that …show more content…
Her gift to him was a pocket watch that belonged to her granddaddy which she put a picture of herself in. He automatically sets the clock to Memphis time with is where the main Fed Ex hub his; which shows his obsessive attitude towards time and his job. While the plane is falling he was more concerned on saving the pocket watch then himself. After the plane crashes the mise-en-scene is set to the ocean as Chuck drifts onto and Island on half of a yellow life raft. In a medium shot of his first reaction when he reaches in his pants pocket to check his pager immediately after he reaches to his pocket to find the pocket watch to check the time only to realize that both things were no longer work. It is as if time has suddenly stopped on this Island. In this moment, we start to see a change that comes to Chuck as the watch no longer holds a significance of time. It is now a reminder of Kelly and how he wishes he would have used his timely wisely when he was with her. As the film