Sacrificial
Ham.
©
Jon Dunmore, 23 Nov 2005.
During
this movie, Tom Hanks' head took out a restraining order on
his hairstyle. His head won the case, which is why halfway
through the film, Hanks sports a halfway decent 'do - the
old hairstyle finding a home on Whitney Houston's head, of
which Houston is still unaware.
 Meg
Ryan has three different hairstyles, playing three separate
characters; though it alludes to her talent, each character
is only a variation on the ingratiating coquette persona
we have all grown to grimace over.
Diagnosed
with a "brain cloud" which leaves him only months
to live, Hanks is conned into leaping into a volcano to
appease an island god. Under this surface premise, there
is political intrigue and other such overwhelmingly inane
minutiae - purely McGuffin, as the film stabs at philosophizing
over Life itself. I'm afraid I might have fallen asleep,
but I'm more afraid that I might have been awake and only
thought I was asleep. Philosophy, I can appreciate;
quirky, I can appreciate - add "romance" to the
mix and skew everything with irrationality over repressing
bodily fluids.
Long
before Cast Away, Hanks here finds himself adrift
on an endless ocean with nothing but a mindless entity for
companionship - Meg Ryan.
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