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Satya Prakash's POV

 
   Life is like rowing boat in trouble water.

Films  "CASTAWAY"&  " HELL IN THE PACIFIC" teach us.

One person is dashed off on unknown, strange, complete depopulated island when a young enthusiast officer's plans was crashed down. This very person stayed with secluded portion of a seas shore, murmuring with a carved human face on a football that has cast away to the seashore. He does not find alone now. History repeats itself when he knows how to lit fire. He is here from a modern human civilization where food is cooked on fire. However, on this solitary seashore, he eats fish and other things without fire. One day ,discovers and  shouts in happiness as if it is a discovery of fire. Yes, for this guy Chuk Noland,  fire is discovery on this unknown shore of pacific  ocean. He stays into caves while raining.  He fishes out and lives on and builds a bamboo boat  and rows against ferocious tides of sea water to touch a human shore for survival. Tides snatch his human friend carves on coconut. He jumps into sea and swims rapidly to catch his flowing friend away but alas ! he does not .He feels sorry for Wilsom( name of carves human head on white ball) who casts away into stream of sea. He loses his energy. He gets pounded by loneliness. His ruptured bamboo raft is flowing away .He sees a grand ship passing on through sea water and he screams out, giving hand's gesture.

Chuk Noland ( Tom Hank) is in amidst of human civilization now.

The man reaches his town in America but his world gets changed. His wife gets married to someone. They are having baby. He fulfills incomplete work of courier and he rockets out a way from crossroad for survival, chasing a young girl who states a young beautiful girl few minutes before on the cross road..

This is a awesome movie" CAST AWAY"  lessons us  to be positive and humane even in horrendous moment because life paves the way for ahead.

Another film British Film " HELL IN THE PACIFIC WAR"  is another cast away on the pacific land but there are two enemies of world war second. One is Japanese soldier and another is American pilot. They do not understand their languages. Initially, they hate to each other. Japan Army was fighting with Adolf Hitler and American Army was fighting with Unified army against Adolf Hitler. They did not have anything for livelihood. They tie each other in hatred but unconducive and death-like situation on depopulated shore of pacific ocean come closer to each other for survival. They help each other. They live with time. They make a raft of bamboo and they row it against horrifying tides. In midst of troubles in sea, raft reaches island . In their eyes , hopes of life twinkle and they are on the island, seeing, searching food, clothes , , wine, books, photos and shaving  box. American reads English but Japanese does not. One picture makes  Japanese so patriotic and inimical  to American pilot. American wants to say something and Japanese becomes so furious.   Their screams and counter screams are raising their hands against each other . Film fades out with explosion of  bomb.    This is abrupt end of film. Director John Boorman can  conclude it very well. 

However, both the films say a lot about human adventure, philosophy of life , secluded platitude and rejuvenated life emerging out from sea world. In crude and cruel opposite life situation, the leading character of film" CASTAWAY" and " HELL IN THE PACIFIC "   fight against all odds in depopulated pacific  sea. 

American Film " Hell in the Pacific" released in 1968 goes beyond the conflict of world war second and establishes a human bond between two American pilot and Japanese soldier.                                                                

Such a film inspires all of us to be positive for rowing the boat in trouble water.