An Outstanding Film With No Dialogues

“All Is Lost”

I ask myself this, what’s the point of this movie? We’re seeing an old man, who’s on a solo voyage; his ship is damaged; he is fighting to survive alone in the middle of the ocean, with a limited amount of supplies left.

Directed by J. C. Chandor, and starring Robert Redford, this film, shot in a single location with the brilliant music score. Won many awards along with an Oscar for best sound editing.

Months ago, I had this love for water movies, ocean movies. I started to watch some. I watched 47 meters down, Deep Blue Sea, The Meg etc. This one was on my list too, but this was different; there is no danger of what’s in the water, but the danger is the water, and the climatic conditions here.

It might sound boring, but it’s great, the movie. Robert Redford gave us a great performance. There are some dialogs in the movie, like only 51 words spoken, words like, Fuck! Oh God etc.

The point of the whole film is basically to never lose hope, even if All Is Lost, in simple words!

Our old man is stuck, no where to go. I had these questions that what the hell is he even doing there? Where’s his family? And what’s his name? I was thinking of a basic-normal ending, like in the end he will go back home, will meet his family, kids etc. But the ending is the real deal here.

The ending was so, so great, that every flaw in the movie vanishes when you watch the ending. Of course not gonna spoil anything here, but I suggest you watch this one. This was the first movie I watched where there is no dialog with only one character.

The cinematography is great…

Redford was nominated for his own Golden Globe and won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor.

Now here comes the negative part…

Although I think the overall point of this movie is on hope, hope to survive, but this question comes into my mind about the character, the old man. He is a fool. He is wishing for death. If you’ll notice this, he himself is doing things to his ship, leaving hatches open in the middle of the storm? Yeah, that’s way more than foolish considering if you want to survive, but again, this is so confusing overall.

But other than this, it’s all okay. I enjoyed the visuals. I love the water, the storm and the rain. It feels like a therapy, of course for me but not for the character.

I think it just leaves the audience to think of the motive of this film, of the character; it’s on you to think that why is he even here? Where is he going? And every question arising.

In the end, I’ll say this, the movie is outstanding. Especially the ending, I mean in the end I was holding my seat, so you can guess how intense it was, the adventure of our old man coming to a great end…

I guess that’s all.

“All Is Lost.

No, It Isn’t”