Robert Zemeckis directs #TomHanks in the story Cast Away, written by William Broyles Jr.. He received a Golden Globe award for his poignant performance.
As he reaches for Wilson, his imaginary friend, born in the isolation of his tragedy, his face made from the blood of Chuck Noland’s struggling hands trying to make fire … he fails to “save” him! Wilson swiftly fades into the distance on the ocean current and Tom brings the world with him to experience the depths of a particular sorrow. I imagine the audience…. utterly still, a pool of listening minds, hearts slowly breaking.
After viewing this scene, you may hear the whispers of Craig Wright’s play, The Pavilion:
“This is the way the universe begins. A raindrop (that isn’t really a raindrop) drops, like a word, “rain” drops, into a pool (that isn’t really a pool, more like a pool of listening minds), and tiny waves circle out in an elegant decelerating procession, -cession, -cession. Then, after a time, the pool of listening minds grows still.”
What is this particular sorrow that we are traveling on, remembering still? Still. Listening?
