Cast Away is maybe the best survival movie of all time that serves as major inspiration to keep moving forward in life no matter what happens, because "yous never know what the tide volition bring in." The film stars Tom Hanks as Chuck Noland—a FedEx businessman who lives a hectic, fast-paced life with no intention of slowing down. He is in dear with Kelly Frears, who is played by histrion Hellen Hunt. Right earlier Chuck gets on the airplane that volition crash land him near an isle that he will unknowingly spend the next four years of his life on, he gifts his love, Kelly, an engagement band and says he'll exist right back.

Instead, he is the sole survivor of a plane crash and drifts onto an island in the centre of nowhere, off course from the aeroplane's assumed road. On the island, FedEx boxes wash up on shore. Chuck opens all of the boxes to observe annihilation useful—all except for ane box marked with orange angel wings and blue loops. Like Chuck's locket with a flick of Kelly, and his volleyball he personified with the name Wilson, this bundle gave Chuck a reason to continue living and not stop his life similar he had been thinking of doing.

The thought of i day being able to return the package gives him something to expect forrard to. Chuck fifty-fifty created a noose at ane signal off-screen. The parcel, locket, and volleyball also serve every bit symbols for Chuck belongings onto control and his life prior to the crash. But soon after contemplating suicide, Chuck accepted his fate and continued surviving despite all the odds. That is when the tide brought in a ripped piece of door from a porta-potty and gave Chuck the thought of using it every bit a sail.

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When Chuck loses Wilson at sea, it is similar he has lost his last remaining zipper to his old life. Merely when all hope seems to be lost, a container ship floats past past Chuck. He badly reaches out his hand, and so suddenly, he is back home with all the conveniences of modernity. Kelly had thought she lost Chuck, and she moved on, got married, and had a child. This devastates Chuck, who feels he has lost her all over over again. Chuck admits to how sad he is about losing Kelly, but he is grateful she was not on the isle with him. The last shots of the picture reveal that Chuck still has the unopened bundle, which he returns to the sender with a note that says "this packaged saved my life, thank you."

This is the main story, or storyline A. But at that place is a B story going on that really starts and ends the motion picture. The B story is carried throughout the motion-picture show (literally) by the unopened package, which serves as a Cerise Herring to the real meaning of the film. The package by the end of the picture show connects story A to story B. The side story follows a adult female named Bettina and her cheating husband in Russia. Bettina is sending a parcel to her married man in Russia, but this package makes its way back onto the FedEx aeroplane Chuck was on, possibly because the husband issued a return-to-sender. This is the unopened package that Chuck finally returns at the end of the moving picture.

The opening shot of Cast Away is of a literal crossroads—with a road that points in four possible directions (interpreted as iv possible futures). The title sequence is very specific, carefully showing how Bandage Away is two, carve up words and not one. Each word appears slowly, and with definitive purpose. The atypical discussion "castaway" is defined every bit a person who has been shipwrecked and stranded in an isolated place. Just the title of the picture show, Bandage Away, is two words, suggesting that not merely is this a story virtually a castaway, but this is a story about literally casting away something. For Bettina, she is conspicuously casting away her married man, as her farm'south gate now reads "Bettina" rather than what it used to say: "Dick & Bettina."

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For Chuck, he is casting away his need for control over his life, and he has to learn to accept life as information technology comes instead of fighting against the tide. He learns to "become with the menses." What is in the bundle is irrelevant to what its purpose is. The unopened packet serves as a device to bring Chuck and Bettina together, as she was mayhap his soulmate after all. Information technology is simply a shame it took a disaster to bring them together. Chuck's time on the island was not wasted, as he now learns the importance of time, merely understands the demand to be flexible. The final shot mirrors the opening shot as Chuck stands at the crossroad, signifying his freedom of beingness able to choose his side by side move. Chuck looks downward the route in the direction of Bettina'south farm, and the screen fades to blackness suggesting Chuck volition now go with what the tide has brought him instead of trying to agree onto his by.

For fans who insist on knowing what is really in the parcel, many have theorized that information technology was a satellite phone—which could have been used to get Chuck off the island quicker. But that isn't the point and Chuck wouldn't accept learned a lesson. Though Chuck does not end up opening the package in the moving picture, in the script he did. In the script, the Angel Wing Bundle defenseless Chuck's centre. Instead of fierce it open up recklessly similar the others, he pauses a moment—studying the art on the bundle. He imitates the design past trying to unsuccessfully draw it in the dirt with a stick. So, he carefully cuts the bundle open with a stone knife.

Within the box is no satellite phone, no seeds, no GPS, or water purifying arrangement. Instead, the box contains 2 jars of homemade light-green salsa and a letter of the alphabet. Chuck studies the letter, which reads, "Y'all said our life was a prison. Wearisome. Ho-hum. Empty. I can't brainstorm to tell you how much that hurt. I don't want to lose you. I'm enclosing some salsa, the verde yous like. Use it on your sticky rice and recall of domicile. And so come home—to me. Nosotros'll observe the spice in our lives once again. Together. I beloved y'all. Always. Bettina." And with that, fans finally have an answer to the question of what was in the bundle in Cast Away.

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