Distracted Communication In Cast Away

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In the movie “Cast Away” the actor Tom hanks character name is Chuck Noland and he works for Fedex, and he is on a plane to go deliver some boxes and the plane crashes in the water. He ends up on an island and survives for 4 years. I noticed in the movie there is a lot of communication. The communication comes from nonverbal, failed, and effective listening. I will be talking about how all these communications are in this movie. Non verbal communication is when your communication with someone through facial expressions, gestures, and body language. This movie shows it a lot. One of the times in the movie Chuck shows it is when his friend Stan is talking to someone about his wife being very sick. Chuck didn't know what to say but his faced showed it all. His face glowed with …show more content…
When Chuck was trying to talk to his workers about time and how they need to load boxes they didn't look quite excited and weren't really listening. Distracted communication isn't really communicated because both people need to know what's happening. If they can't communicate right nothing will be done right, and the thing they want to get done might not even get done. When he was at the island he had no one to communicate except a volleyball. The volleyball couldn't communicate back but Chuck needed something to talk to. When you have no one to talk to sometimes you just gotta result to talking to yourself or to an imaginary thing.

The movie “Cast Away” involved a lot of communication. From miscommunication to non verbal. In this world everyone needs communication and this movie showed me how much you do. Also the many ways people communicate. Chuck needed to have communication for his job a lot being a fedex worker. He needed to communicate with other people so he could get the boxes delivered all over the world in a good amount of time. He showed that time is important and you could never have enough

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