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Review of "Castaway on the Moon"
Sarahí Campos Huízar Jimena Murillo Arellano
This movie it´s about two people who live in difficult situations; the boy had many debts and the girl with very low self-esteem and isolated from society, locked in her room of her own free will. Later the boy wanted to commit suicide due to his debts, but he didn´t go as expected because he didn’t die and only got trapped on an island under a bridge without being able to get out, he tried to ask for help, but they did not believe him that he was lock up on an island, and his cell phone ran out of battery. A ship passed near the island, but it wasn´t rescue, so he decided to write "help" in the sand in case anyone saw it. The girl who was in the building facing the island began to observe him for a long time through her camera and to photograph him. The boy tried to hang himself from a tree on the island to end his life at once, but at that moment something happened that made him change his mind and he decided to continue with his life a little longer, it was a symbol of hope. The boy faces many challenges of daily life, but he finally adjusts to living on the island, he learns to cook, to take refuge and to sow. The girl is intrigued because she believes that he is an alien and then the message from "help" changes to "hello" and that's when she decides to leave her house and answer him by means of a message inside a bottle, but when He throws this one, it gets trapped in the trees and days go by until he realizes the bottle and at first he can't believe it, but he decides to change the message in the sand and receives an answer again, they have a conversation until he asks "who are you?" and this question confronts her because she had been hiding in a false identity for so long and she stops answering him. Days go by and he doesn´t understand why he doesn´t get an answer, then they went to clean the island and try to find to the boy and have to get him out of there, he gets very sad and decides that he is going to commit suicide in a building. The part that I liked least is that I never knew the past of the characters and I was intrigue throughout the movie, he kept wait for that moment, I think it's a story that describes an unlikely but real situation.
The boy is my favorite character because he acts in a simple and funny way and later, he was taking the importance of the little things in life and he also realized that he could achieve many things with his hands and thanks to his attitude he also helped someone that she was like living dead. I felt empathy for the character because during the quarantine I was able to realize that the details and what we have is important and it is good to thank for everything. I liked this movie because it teaches us that the small, simple and essential things are what matter in our life and also that we can always help someone else and we can have hope and give hope to others with our attitude and definitely it would recommend.