Cast Away

The volleyball couldn't have offered consent, could it? If that's the case, shouldn't this movie be viewed quite differently? I mean, he's no longer a FedEx hero, a poster boy for the dedicated mail carrier, who will stop at nothing to make sure his customers are happy. No. Now he's a sick, twisted, sporting-equipment rapist. Maybe we were all better off with him on the island.

Of course, maybe Wilson's a tramp. Who knows?

 

Maybe you're misinterpreting Wilson's willingness and right, to show its sexual side. Just because Wilson doesn't wear clothes doesn't mean it was asking for it.

I'm sort of down with your first point. Perhaps Tom Hanks is a serial volleyball rapist.

Then again, if Tom Hanks was crazy from malnutrition and loneliness, maybe he thought Wilson was asking, lo, demanding it from him? Perhaps in his heat-fried mind, he thought acquiesing to Wilson's slutty whims was akin to rape, but a rape he could not, or would not, resist. A sort of dom-sub volleyball-lording-over-man type of thing? If that's the case, than perhaps Wilson is the evil here.

Nah, we're overthinking it. I think Hanks just wanted to do the nasty with a volleyball.

 

Well, Wilson was cute.

 

Wilson was definitely asking for it. You see that pout? The way he flashed his airhole? He never wore anything in the film.

 

Wilson was a slut, but you know who might be hittable? Steve McQueen's baseball in The Great Escape.

 

I love this place.

 

I sure didn't expect this when I clicked the Cast Away thread.

 

I really liked it. Surprised Hanks didn't win. I wouldn't have been heartbroken if they trimmed 15-20 mins though.

 

When Wilson was floating away, and he was calling out to him, it totally tore me up. In part because I'd been tricked into feeling like Wilson was "really" a person, and also because I couldn't possibly imagine how alone he felt with Wilson gone.

 

That's OK, Eva Mendes got stranded shortly thereafter. Then Wilson was deflated for different exigencies

 

I've got the coordinates, and I'm headed that way.