Cast Away - ending scene [HD]

[mravalik]

Something so powerful about the near ending, when the cameras perspective shows every stretch of open road leading to whatever destination awaits.
He is home, he is alive and healthy, yet at that point he is at a crossroad of any direction he so pleases.

[MinorMotionPicture]

Alan Silvestri’s score slaps so hard in this film! The best is how it doesn’t come in till after he leaves the island.

[RPSteve]

The way I see the ending here is that when Chuck is smiling at the direction that Bettina went, its his chance to start a new Romance!

[JasonMatthews]

I'm glad they left some ambiguity of what he did next. Of course he went to her. His hint of smile shows relief and gratitude for life finally giving him a soft pitch to hit out of the park

[C.Q_Wilkenson]

Love how despite how gut wrenching the ending is, there is also hope.

[morganjanelle]

2:08 to 2:35 One of the saddest yet most powerful endings of any movie and not one single word was spoken.

[jamesedwards]

23 years later and still takes my breath away 😢

[salvarriale]

I love this movie and this scene says it all about life

[dgschindele]

I've always loved this scene. The only way to decipher what will happen next is to feel it.

[laurentreese]

I've just watched this film, and paid close attention to the last scene, where he's at a crossroads and has to choose a direction.
He's noticed that the pretty young woman he's bumped into is the one he's just delivered to...
Now he's standing in the middle of the crossroads, and by getting his bearings (I replayed the scene several times), we understand that the road he's turning towards and smiling at is actually the road the young woman took to get home.
So for me, he's going back to her, when he could be going in three other directions, practically to the end of the world.
That's my interpretation, but the point is that we sometimes look far for what we have close at hand.

AND THIS FILM IS JUST A GEM.

[falconm]

Sorrow and hope, these are the feelings that the ending music expresses with great success.

[KosmicKaren]

He chooses the angel’s road in the end. Who wouldn’t? A whole lotta “nothing” all the way to Canada X

[bryanrizzo]

Chuck had that look of regret in his eye like "Oh man that girl was beautiful...I should've asked her out" and if you ask me he should've.

[topcalmsteadfast]

Whisper shadow in Belfast .She's gone. my shipwreck on land inside the ocean of life, crossroad in the brain's maze, my real strife.

[Rob-Benny-Hill]

Thank you Rob and Tom, poetry made in heaven and acted out on earth.

[bugwber]

Man, have I been in this exact spot before, figuratively that is. Open skies and empty roads ahead, but not exactly sure if that path is the right one or not. In the end, you gotta make it work out. You make your choice, and do the best that you can in order to live your life as fully and completely as possible.

I think Chuck finishes his deliveries first, THEN returns to her. I mean, he’s got to get Wilson to his real home!

[michaelj.r]

When he saw the angel wings on the truck, he was definitely going back to her. The key was the scene before when he dropped the package at her house (unknowingly) and wrote the message on how the package saved his life. If only so he could thank her in person, he was going back.
P.S Very sad to learn the actress passed away not long ago after a hard battle with cancer.

[bluediver]

Very moving powerful ending scene
Just grips you all over
A masterpiece of an ending
Gets your Attention fast how can it not

[SuperWhofan]

Of course he went back to her house and they lived together forever. Destiny.
Why do people make this ending so complicated

[ProfessorTakatoPalm]

I enjoy this ending not just for the symbolism, but for it being up to the audience to decide what happens next and which way Chuck goes. I also like that we never found out what was inside the box. Again another great thing left to the imagination.