Castaway Analysis: Castaway

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Castaway assessment 1. To critique the film castaway I would say that they do not show enough of what he had to do to survive for the 4 years on the island they showed him catching a few fish and the showed him cracking coconuts, but they never showed him trying to catch any animals or setting any traps that he might find on an island. Also, I would have a little bit more of the time that they were having at home searching for him or at his funeral. They just showed him at the island for the whole time and the only time we saw any other characters were at the beginning and the end.
They could have finished some of the things that they started like the box that he returned to the owner at the end of the movie or what he did with his life after he returned. In my opinion the biggest thing that they didn’t show was anything with the small box that he gave to his wife before he got on the plane did she open it. What was inside of the box? Hey left that open for all interpretation and did not even mention it at the end of the film so I think that they dropped the ball on that point in the film.
The last critique that I have is they did not show any troubles that he had when he got on the boat what did eat did he have many troubles with his tooth did he have trouble eating because he had not eaten very much
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There were many different types of conflict in the movie castaway there were all different types of conflict that Chuck main character faces. For the man to man conflict he had a few the biggest problem that he faced in this type of conflict is the conflict that he showed with kelly because he was always gone and didn't have very much time to spend with her and he didn't have enough time to spend with her and they had trouble communicating because he was always worried about time. There were other conflicts like when chuck was trying to communicate with the workers in Moscow to get them to go faster because they were not getting their packages delivered on

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