G3750 wrote:MurphOnMillerAve wrote:G3750 wrote:
I don't find it too farfetched that someone alone would start talking to himself or to inanimate objects.
George
Talking is one thing, but endangering ones life to save a ball is too nuts. For a story/movie to be good, to me, it has to have some believability , and that one strains credulity too much. I just stopped caring about him, as a result. I'm not sure what its goal was. What do you say it was, George? Did it succeed?
i think the goal of the soccer ball (no pun intended) was to demonstrate just how stir crazy the character had gone. It also served as a theatrical device to help Hanks convey the hero's emotions, reactions and state of mind. ..That's a long time for an actor, even somebody as good as Hanks, to carry a scene unaided without dialogue.
And yes I think it worked, at least for me.
You're right. I think you made a really good case there. You make sense and have explained plenty. Nice. Real nice. You broadened my viewpoint, so I consider myself edified. Thanks for the meaningful conversation.
Furthermore, I'm connecting what you said to having learned quite some time ago that the human mind is kept healthier the more it interacts with others. The more a person is isolated from others, the more they deteriorate mentally. Murph.
Clever tomcat. I like that. That laugh was worth the price of admission. 
