This is a movie of disquietude on a soundless and seemingly infinite ocean.
A story of a man who survives turbulence after collision with the help of a survival kit and a map plied with ingenuity.
We are only told that the man is about 7000 miles off the coast of Sumatra and it is a story of eight days. We do not know his name nor do we know why he is on high seas. There is no other cast except the sailor, Robert Redford and thus no dialogue. That intensified the effect.
The hull of the boat is ruptured after a collision with floating debris of storage container. While he repairs the damage and bails out the water from sinking boat a storm hits.
The rest, one has to see the film to appreciate the ferocity of the ocean and the courage of a lone man to fight it. I have seen few adventure and endurance movies. But I found this to be survival story in its purest form.
If nothing else one can at least appreciate the ordeal the earlier voyagers like, Marco Polo and Vasco Da Gama may have suffered on high seas. And in those days they did not possess survival kits either.
My hats off to their courage to circumnavigate the globe .......
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