The movie begins with a sweeping shot of the expansive Indian ocean. Here we find a dark red
shipping container bobbing up and down. a male voice tells us “all is lost". What has happened
to the man? This is Movie Shortens. Follow us today to the survival drama film called:
All is lost 2013. Be aware: there are spoilers! Jumping back 8 days, an aging sailor comes to
bed in the hull of his yacht. He is woken by the sounds of splintering wood and water washing in.
He gets up to investigate and we find his boat has collided with the abandoned shipping container.
It is now stuck and the collision has left a gaping hole in the side of his boat.
The man attempts to free his yacht using a pole, but it is wedged on too tightly.
Next he collects a sea anchor from inside his boat and this proves more fruitful,
freeing his vessel. As he begins to head off, however, he realizes he has left it behind, so
turns back to collect it. He then sets a course, and heads cautiously away from the container.
Down in his hold, with the water now nearly waist deep, he checks the boat's electrics. They have
failed due to the intruding water, so he no longer has automated assistance to help clear the water.
He then inspects the damage to the boat, pulls out a wooden box containing a repair
kit and drains the flood water from this. Next he fashions a wooden pole into a handle,
in order to help him manually pump the water from the inside of his boat. Later he pauses
to eat a tin of cold food, before sleeping above the remaining water in a hammock.
The next day he gets to work fixing the hole in the side of the boat, from a harness which
allows him to do so from the outside, hoisted above the ocean. Following this, he continues
the laborious process of attempting to clear his hull of water using the hand pump in the stern.
Later, we find him mopping the wooden floors of his interior and inspecting his handiwork,
having sealed the hole. Fortunately, his running repairs appear to be holding
when he puts them to the test. As a next step, the man collects a battery from
below the floor of the yacht. He takes this up to the deck and attempts to connect it to his radio.
He also consults his maps, before abandoning them and turning to a book,
presumably for support in how to use them. This he quickly casts aside and returns to the deck. His
radio briefly flickers into life and he attempts to deliver an SOS call from his boat which we
learn is named the Virginia Jean. His transistor then appears to die once more. We imagine his
distress signals to have gone unheard. Later that night, our forlorn main character
begins to sip on whisky, before pouring himself a bigger measure. He is busy cooking dinner on his
gas stove when it begins to rain. Seemingly drawn to the freshwater, he clambers up to the deck,
rolls up his sleeves and takes pleasure in feeling the sensation of the raindrops
falling onto his skin. He then finishes off his home-cooked meal, before turning back to his book,
which he reads in the dark using a headlamp. He soon puts this aside to drift off, however.
The next day, we find him in a harness once again. This time he ascends to the top of his
mast in an attempt to reconnect an antenna lead which has become loose. From his vantage point,
high above the ocean, he is able to see a storm is approaching and quickly makes his way back down
to baton down the hatches. He quickly puts away all of his glassware and fills a jerry can with
water from his hand pumped tap. He then takes an opportunity to shave, in order - we imagine - to
confront the storm looking his best. With the winds and waves becoming increasingly
aggressive, the man dons his bright orange waterproofs and returns to the deck.
Here he harnesses himself to his yacht and attempts to crawl to the front of the boat
to reduce the size of its sail. As he does so, however, he is thrown overboard. He then uses the
harness to pull himself back to the vessel and clamber aboard. Once back on deck, he continues
his work on the sail, before returning to the hold in the hull, stripping off his
overalls and collapsing exhausted in a heap. The intensity of the storm continues to increase
though. Soon, from inside the cabin we see the boat is capsized as our hero takes a perch on the
ceiling. It then rights itself fairly quickly and he is able to take a proper seat once again.
Next he returns to the deck once more, but his boat is hit from the side by a massive wave,
rolling it over and casting him into the ocean for a second time,
this time without a harness. However, as it rolls and from below the surface, he is able to grab a
hold of a handrail and return to the deck as the yacht rights itself. The roll, however,
has brought the mast down with it, rendering the boat something of a wreck. With the mast dragging
in the water and throwing the boat off balance, he cuts it free before returning to the hold.
Therein, he holds his head in his hands, clearly coming to terms
with the gravity of the situation. He quickly notices the hull has been
breached once again, but before he can do anything to address this he is knocked out
as a sudden rocking of the boat sends him violently, head first, into a pillar.
He awakens, clearly now groggy, with a lengthy, deep cut across his forehead.
With the wash from the waves continuing to pour in through the hole in the side of the boat,
the water in his cabin is now waist height. This considered, he takes his life raft from the hold,
ties it to the yacht, throws it into the sea and opens it. He then hops into it and closes
it up to prevent any further flooding. The next day, the man awakens to find the
worst of the storm has passed. With the remains of his yacht still bobbing around on the surface,
he hauls himself back to it by hand to salvage what he can. This,
of course, includes his food supplies and water, a sextant and his maps and a series of flares.
His last action aboard the Virginia Jean is to tend to his wound. He washes it down in
antiseptic, before taping it up to aid in the healing process. As he does so,
a burst of bubbles from below suggests the boat is about to go down. He climbs out once more and
back onto his raft, to take in a final glimpse of the yacht before it slips below the surface.
Now drifting freely and at the mercy of the ocean currents, the man returns to his book and attempts
to learn how to use the sextant to determine his location. This he does and begins to plot
it on a map. We can see that he is in reasonably close proximity to a major shipping channel.
In the next significant occurrence, we can see that the life raft has begun to take on water.
Concerned, the man attempts to bail it out using an empty tin can that had contained his last meal.
He then uses a rag to mop up the remaining water, before inspecting his wound.
That night, the winds begin to pick up. Clearly worried by this turn of events, the man clings to
the sides of his raft. Suddenly, however, it too is capsized and he finds himself underneath it,
up to his neck in the water with his small collection of possessions floating around
with him. He unzips one of its entry and exit points, swims out and attempts to re-right it.
Exhausted once more, he collapses on top of the raft, exposed to the elements, covers his
ears and attempts to rock himself to sleep. The next day, we find him atop of his somewhat
wrecked raft, attempting to re-inflate its side with an integrated pump, which quickly becomes
detached. He turns back to his sextant and we see he is now significantly closer to the shipping
lane. It is not all good news though as he soon discovers his water has become contaminated and
is undrinkable. Later though, looking up at the sun he has a brainwave and cuts open his jerrycan.
He then uses its cavity, a plastic covering and a cup to create a solar still.
With food his next priority, after that he casts a fishing line found in his survival kit.
Now within the shipping lane, the man spots an enormous container ship.
He lights a flare to attempt to wave it down, but the ship slips by, its crew apparently
oblivious to his presence. Returning to his fishing line, he finds something has bitten.
This he attempts to reel in. However, before he can bring it aboard, it is snatched by a shark.
We then gaze up at the raft from the depths, as it is circled by scores of these predators.
Later that night, another container ship approaches. Once again, the man turns
to his flares. He lights one up which is sent spiraling up into the sky but is, again, unseen.
He wakes the next day to discover at least his solar still is working though and takes
a small sip of water. Turning to his sextant once again, he now notes that he has drifted beyond the
shipping lane without being picked up. The next day, with his hopes seemingly
extinguished, he turns to his notebook to write a message to his loved ones. He folds this up
and places it within a glass jar. He then seals this and tosses it overboard, with what little
remaining energy he has. This is, presumably, the message uttered at the beginning of the film.
That night, under the light of the moon, in the distance he spots what he believes to be a boat.
With his flares now exhausted, the man builds a fire within the confines of the adapted jerrycan,
using paper from his notebook. The fire catches, but as he attempts to maintain it, spreads.
Soon the raft itself catches alight and goes up in flames. The man, as a result,
has no option but to jump into the water. In the final sequences of the film,
having given up hope, the old chap allows himself to sink down into the depths.
From well below the surface, however, he suddenly spots a small boat circling his burning raft. With
his hopes renewed, he swims upwards towards it. As he reaches out a hand, it is grabbed by one of the
occupants of this craft. Finally, after 8 days struggling for his life, he has been saved!!
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