Tom Hanks Ocean Index
By Jimmy Chen
Sleepless in Seattle (1993)
Ocean sequence: While not playing an immediate role, the Seattle bay acted as a textural component for the film, residing in the topographic background of numerous scenes, which conveyed a sort of “kind loneliness” of which the film’s rhetoric was mainly comprised. To further water’s conceit, recently widowed Tom Hanks lives on a “houseboat” with his son, as if subconsciously waiting for imminent transplant to occur.
Relationship with ocean: Hopeful
Estimated time: ~1.5 years
Metaphor(s): Port city as estuary of love.
Overall, good times or bad?: Okay