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We might just make it. Did that thought ever cross your brain? Well, regardless, I would rather take my chance out there on the ocean, that to stay here and die on this shithole island spending the rest of my life talking to a god damn volleyball.
— Cast Away · 2000
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
Chuck prefers risking an ocean escape to remaining on the island and dying there. His comparison makes even uncertain survival seem preferable to prolonged isolation; it does not establish that the escape succeeds.
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