By Robert Scucci
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Finding a goal in life is not always easy, and sometimes you need a reminder to live your life as much as possible as in Joe against the volcano. Do the fluorescents of the workplace aspire you a quarter of a quarter of an eight hour to the point where you try to invent diseases so that you can get a day off? Did an increasing feeling of professional fear led you to abandon your dreams and succumb to the daily chore of the rats race?
Well, the same thing happens to Joe Banks of Tom Hanks In Joe against the volcanoAnd he learns one thing or two about the concentration of what matters, even if his approach may seem a little unconventional.
Never trust a doctor
Joe against the volcano Double immediately a dark image of the men and women of the company who rush into the workplace under a pale sky, but only before entering an illuminated installation with various shades of gray and green thanks to the fluorescent lights and permanently dirty. Working in the advertising department for American Panascope, a company that made a fortune by selling rectal probes and oil jelly, Joe simply goes through movements because he is a hypochondriac terrified by his boss, Frank Waturi (Dan Hedaya).
Joe has had a number of imaginary health problems, which are the result of the trauma he experienced while working as a firefighter before starting his job at American Panascope, and as a result did not feel like him for years. So much, in fact, he never fully reveals his feelings to his colleague, dede (Meg Ryan).
Fear that always becomes an unknown terminal phase disease, Joe visits Dr. Ellison (Robert Stack), who suggests that he suffers from a “brain cloud”, leaving him only six months to live.
Joe finds himself in a unique situation when Dr. Ellison violates his oath as Hippocrates Joe against the volcano Based the extremely rich superconductor magnate, Samuel Granamore (Lloyd Bridges), which can have use for him, taking into account his supposed declining health.
Live your last days in style
Joe is made an offer that he cannot refuse in the form of a trip all the costs paid on the island of Waponi Woo. Waponi living on the island have the access that Samuel needs to continue his manufacturing process, but they need a human sacrifice to jump into their volcano so that they can appease their god from angry fire and continue to drink orange soda.
Knowing that he has nothing to lose Joe against the volcano, Our hero begins to shop for a lifetime, throws Samuel’s credit cards, takes a flight to Las Angeles to meet the industry girl, Angelica (also Meg Ryan), who then leads him to his half-sister, Patricia (Meg Ryan, once again), to get on his yacht, the tweedledee.
Knowing that he will not survive his dive in the volcano, Joe tries to keep the intention behind his secret adventure, even if he starts slowly but surely to bind with Patricia, and begins to have a second thought on the follow -up of Samuel’s instructions. Realizing that being on the verge of death is the first time that he feels really alive, Joe perseveres against the elements to do what he has decided to do, which forces him to make the most difficult decision of his life when he finally approaches his destination.
Equal surreal and sentimental parts
Joe against the volcano Proposes to show his viewers that there is more to live than simply survive, and how sometimes you can only discover the clarity you are looking for once you have reached Rock Bottom. He is also soft to be in the sense that once you reach the level of clarity you are looking for, it can be too late to live your life with intention because you have already agreed to embark on a one-way trip all inclusive to your inevitable death, and that you must see all this or undergo the consequences (also death, but more slowly and more dying).
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