Review of All Is Lost (2013) by Jon W — 10 Feb 2014

Chandor has given us some real meat here and a view into our future. One can best appreciate this film if it is seen as a metaphor. No doubt, Redford gave and excellent performance and the haunting sound track was imaginative and appropriate.

But to fully comprehend what the director is trying to say you must go beyond the obvious story line. Redfor (Our Man) reprisents all of humanity, and at the same time, each one of us as an individual, struggling in our daily lives against the forces we confront.

His boat(our home) is the earth we live on, cast our on the seas of uncertainty. The container, which smashes against his boat, is the unrelenting materialism we find confronting us everyday, created by man.

Our Man cannot get away from it and it ultimately sinks his boat. As the giant container ship sails by oblivious to Our Man and his dire plight, and to the plight of the world, we see ourselves, victum to the rampant consumerism and blatant digregard for environment we, and corporations have bestowed upon ourselves, and out ultimate demise.

Any Man gives up all hope of rescue, But in the end, Chandor gives us hope withe hand of any man or a deux ex machina. And that is something to think about. Is all Lost?