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* HighConcept: A man fights for survival after his boat is damaged.
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* FightToSurvive: The whole plot is Redford struggling to survive after his yacht is damaged.
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* FightToSurvive: The whole plot is Redford struggling to survive after his yacht is damaged.
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''All Is Lost'' is a 2013 film starring Creator/RobertRedford and directed by J.C. Chandor (Film/MarginCall).(''Film/MarginCall''). Robert Redford plays a sailor at sea on his yacht, who must fight to survive when his boat is struck and badly damaged by a stray cargo container.
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''All Is Lost'' is a 2013 film starring Creator/RobertRedford and directed by [[Film/MarginCall J.C. Chandor]].Chandor (Film/MarginCall). Robert Redford plays a sailor at sea on his yacht, who must fight to survive when his boat is struck and badly damaged by a stray cargo container.
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* MinimalistCast: UpToEleven. Redford is the only actor in the movie.
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* MinimalistCast: UpToEleven. [[LogicalExtreme Taken as far as the trope can go]]: [[UpToEleven Redford is the only actor in the movie.]]
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* ChekovsGun: Subverted. When trying to signal a ship with flares, he's shown to leave exactly one flare for later. Then at the end when he sees a light in the distance, he goes for the flare...then changes his mind and instead sets the entire raft on fire.
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* ChekovsGun: Subverted. When trying to signal a ship with flares, he's shown to leave exactly one flare for later. Then at the end when he sees a light in the distance, he goes for the flare...[[spoiler: then changes his mind and instead sets the entire raft on fire.]]
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* {{Minimalism}}: There's a man on a boat. We don't know who he is, where he's from, why he's on a boat or if he has any friends or family. All we know is that he has to survive.
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* AmbiguousEnding: [[spoiler: Is the boat that saves him at the end while he's drowning real? A dying hallucination? [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane Or is it Divine Intervention?]]]]
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* AmbiguousEnding: AmbiguousEnding / DownerEnding / EarnYourHappyEnding / NoEnding: [[spoiler: Is The film doesn't really have a definite ending. The man is saved by a passing boat and it's unclear whether the boat that saves him at the end while he's drowning real? A dying hallucination? is real, a DyingDream [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane Or is it or Divine Intervention?]]]]Intervention.]] And due to Chandor and Redford's respective ShrugOfGod, many interpretations of the ending exist, each one equally plausible.]]
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: If you take the cynical interpretation.]]
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: If you take the idealistic interpretation.]]
* HeroicBSOD: The last third could be seen as one long BSOD.
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* MessageInABottle: The man sends one when he thinks he's going to die. The message is the monologue that opens the film.
* MinimalistCast: Redford is the only actor in the movie.
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* MessageInABottle: The man sends one when he thinks he's going to die. [[spoiler: The message is the monologue that opens the film.
film.]]
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* ShootTheShaggyDog: [[spoiler: Again, if you take the cynical interpretation.]]
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* ShootTheShaggyDog: [[spoiler: Again, if you take NothingIsScarier: The quiet nature of the cynical interpretation.]]film gives a somewhat unsettling feel to it all.
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* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism: The movie is somewhat in the middle about this, but what happens to the man at the end depends on where the viewers lie on the spectrum.
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* AmbiguousEnding: [[spoiler: Is the boat that saves him at the end while he's drowning real? A dying hallucination? Or is it Divine Intervention?]]
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* AmbiguousEnding: [[spoiler: Is the boat that saves him at the end while he's drowning real? A dying hallucination? [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane Or is it Divine Intervention?]]Intervention?]]]]
* AtomicFBomb: One of the times Redford talks is to let one of these out, [[spoiler:when he discovers his drinking water is contaminated by salt water.]]
* AtomicFBomb: One of the times Redford talks is to let one of these out, [[spoiler:when he discovers his drinking water is contaminated by salt water.]]
* {{Determinator}}: The man just does not give up. [[spoiler: At least until the end.]]
* ExcusePlot: The script was 31 pages long, and [[WordOfGod the director]] stated it's more about the adventure than anything else.
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* SilenceIsGolden / SilentMovie: There is virtually no dialogue in the film, except for the opening monologue that provides the page quote, a few abortive attempts at calling for help, and a PrecisionFStrike (see above).
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* SilenceIsGolden / SilentMovie: There is virtually no dialogue in the film, except for the opening monologue that provides part of the page quote, a few abortive attempts at calling for help, and a PrecisionFStrike an AtomicFBomb (see above).
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* ChekovsGun: Subverted. When trying to signal a ship with flares, he's shown to leave exactly one flare for later. Then at the end when he sees a light in the distance, he goes for the flare...then changes his mind and instead sets the entire raft on fire.
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* ShrugOfGod: Redford and Chandor have stated that [[spoiler: whether the man lives or not is unimportant to the adventure.]]
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''All Is Lost'' is a 2013 film starring Creator/RobertRedford and directed by [[Film/MarginCall J.C. Chandor]] Chandor]]. Robert Redford plays a sailor at sea on his yacht, who must fight to survive when his boat is struck and badly damaged by a stray cargo container.
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* AmbiguousEnding: [[spoiler: Is the boat that saves him at the end while he's drowning real? Or is it a dying hallucination?]]
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* AmbiguousEnding: [[spoiler: Is the boat that saves him at the end while he's drowning real? A dying hallucination? Or is it a dying hallucination?]]Divine Intervention?]]
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''All Is Lost'' is a 2013 film starring Creator/RobertRedford and directed by [[Film/MarginCall J.C. Chandor. Chandor]] Robert Redford plays a sailor at sea on his yacht, who must fight to survive when his boat is struck and badly damaged by a stray cargo container.
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* DeusExMachina: [[spoiler: The second cargo ship saving him.]]
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* HopeSpot: Several, including the radio and [[spoiler: The first cargo ship.]]
* InMediaRes: The opening monologue and ending take place eight days after the movie begins.
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* ShootTheShaggyDog: [[spoiler: Again, if you take the cynical interpretation.]]
* ShrugOfGod: Redford and Chandor have stated that [[spoiler: whether the man lives or not is unimportant to the adventure.]]
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* SilenceIsGolden / SilentMovie: There is virtually no dialogue in the film, except for the opening monologue that provides the page quote, and a PrecisionFStrike (see above).
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* SilenceIsGolden / SilentMovie: There is virtually no dialogue in the film, except for the opening monologue that provides the page quote, a few abortive attempts at calling for help, and a PrecisionFStrike (see above).
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* [[spoiler:AmbiguousEnding]]: [[spoiler: Is the boat that saves him at the end while he's drowning real? or is it a dying hallucination?]]
* [[spoiler:DownerEnding]]: [[spoiler: If you take the cynical interpretation.]]
* [[spoiler:EarnYourHappyEnding]]: [[spoiler: If you take the idealistic interpretation.]]
* [[spoiler:DownerEnding]]: [[spoiler: If you take the cynical interpretation.]]
* [[spoiler:EarnYourHappyEnding]]: [[spoiler: If you take the idealistic interpretation.]]
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*[[spoiler:DownerEnding]]: DownerEnding: [[spoiler: If you take the cynical interpretation.]]
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* MessageInABottle: The man sends one when he thinks he's going to die. [[spoiler:The message is the monologue that opens the film.]]
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* [[spoiler:AmbiguousEnding]]: [[spoiler: Is the boat that saves him at the end while he's drowning real? or is it a dying hallucination?]]
* [[spoiler:DownerEnding]]: [[spoiler: If you take the cynical interpretation.]]
* [[spoiler:EarnYourHappyEnding]]: [[spoiler: If you take the idealistic interpretation.]]
* [[spoiler:DownerEnding]]: [[spoiler: If you take the cynical interpretation.]]
* [[spoiler:EarnYourHappyEnding]]: [[spoiler: If you take the idealistic interpretation.]]
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->''"I'm sorry. I know that means little at this point, but I am. I tried. I think you would all agree that I tried. To be true, to be strong, to be kind, to love, to be right. But I wasn't. [[TitleDrop All is Lost]]"''
-->--[[NoNameGiven Our Man]] (Robert Redford)
-->--[[NoNameGiven Our Man]] (Robert Redford)
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* NearVillainVictory: The man finally loses his raft and very nearly drowns, but at the last minute he is rescued by a small boat.
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* PrecisionFStrike: One of the times Redford talks is to let one of these out,[[spoiler: when he discovers his drinking water is contaminated by salt water.]]
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* PrecisionFStrike: One of the times Redford talks is to let one of these out,[[spoiler: when out, [[spoiler:when he discovers his drinking water is contaminated by salt water.]]
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* TheVoiceless: See SilenceIsGolden above. After all, there's no one else for Redford to talk to.
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''All Is Lost'' is a 2013 film starring Creator/RobertRedford and directed by J.C. Chandor. Robert Redford plays a sailor at sea on his yacht, who must fight to survive when his boat is struck and badly damaged by a stray cargo container.
And that's pretty much the whole plot.
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* NoNameGiven: Redford's character is listed in the credits as "Our Man".
* MinimalistCast: Redford is the only actor in the movie.
* SilenceIsGolden / SilentMovie: There is virtually no dialogue in the film.
And that's pretty much the whole plot.
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* NoNameGiven: Redford's character is listed in the credits as "Our Man".
* MinimalistCast: Redford is the only actor in the movie.
* SilenceIsGolden / SilentMovie: There is virtually no dialogue in the film.
