The Beach

I just feel like everyone tries to do something different, but you always wind up doing the same damn thing.

Saw "The Beach" on Star Movies. Funny how quickly the movie showed up on television. It was released in 2005, and the shooting was affected by the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.

Not a very strong story, but the thing was pulled off really well. The dialogues in the movie were really clever, and the movie had one of the slickest editing I've ever seen. Half-hearted attempt at a review apart, I liked the fil, and woul like to get more from the director (I think Boyle). The video game sequence was really good, as were all the cut scenes with the guy who committed scuicide, giving Richard the map to the beach.

Should probably narrate the story. The story is that this Richard guy stumbles across a map to paradise and then ends up there, an island full of dope and two communities. One a bunch of travellers who hate beach resorts, and have built the most exotic beach resort of their own, and another, a bunch of hostile dope farmers. Richard makes the mistake of copying the map, allowing more tourists to come to the island. The islanders are very posessive about their secret and do not wellcome more guests. The whole cast-away thing happens with a larger community, with Richard battling a shark and things like that. Greed about enjoying themselves grows in the community, and people who fall sick or are injured are just left to die out in the open. The whole society deteriorates, but only Richard's fall is shown, as his is the worst. He ends up killing two people directly, and around four indirectly. There is a face-off between the islanders and the dope farmers, and finally the travellers leave for home, back to a normal life.

The funniest part was richard (DiCaprio) was contemplating the universe with this french girl, and he said something totally stupid like "Somewhere out there, in the eternity of space, someone exactly like you is looking back at you."
To which Françoise replied, "Richard, this is just the kind of pretentious bullshit that Americans always say to French girls so they can sleep with them."



PS, he did end up sleeping with her