The road to heaven is far away

Jayme 2022-04-21 09:01:31

Ricard's classmate may be just a typical one among countless Western teenagers, pursuing the free and exciting life of their dreams. Like the western tourists who arrived at the beach before him and the people who followed him after him. The existence of the beach perfectly suits their needs - the process is thrilling and unknown, and the goal is perfect.

He is a mixed sensible and neurotic classmate. He knows some rules of the world. He is smart and knows how to advance and retreat. So we saw his seemingly calm and sensible speech and expressions at first, and saw how he quickly gained the love of the beach community. To how he avoided danger again and again, and saw that he would use his body or lies to try to cover up the exposure of unfavorable things. But on the other hand, he can't stand the stimulation and temptation at all, as if he was stimulated to drink snake blood at the beginning, like a strange neighbor who died strangely and his mysterious map, like a farmer with a gun in a marijuana field, he can instantly stimulate Show his neurotic wild side.

He took this kind of himself and came to the paradise beach in his dream. Perhaps, without the existing beach community, this beach trip with his 2 partners would have been a short-lived memory of paradise.

Unfortunately, where there are people, there is desire and there is politics, and utopia is still unrealized here. Residents of the beach try to live a natural life of complete hedonicity, while unable to erase the habits brought to them by modern civilized cities, that series of close-up shots of people reporting shopping lists... From toothbrushes and toothpastes, to soaps, Sanitary napkins, really ironic. All these hidden inconsistencies, until they touch on the issue of survival, can no longer be covered up. The sick and injured can barely be seen. The leaders tried to use guns to kill people to maintain the existing situation, but finally collapsed everything. People who came here to pursue freedom and enjoyment They finally fled.

Perhaps as implied in Richard's several hallucinations, selfish people's endless greed for pleasure ultimately imprisoned their freedom.

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Extended Reading
  • Geovanni 2022-03-21 09:01:27

    The escapist of modern life, through the construction and collapse of utopia, seems to herald the nowhere for modern people to escape. (The clichéd utopian story)

  • Daron 2022-03-19 09:01:03

    Although the protagonist himself is not popular, Leon also interprets this role as useless, false ideals, false philosophies, contrived and ignorant, and he doesn't know it in the end, and it can be seen that the director does not know, or the director wants to say that this is American. The male French were the only ones who didn't become a rabble. In addition, compared with Total Eclipse of Heart and Titanic, Leon is ugly.

The Beach quotes

  • Richard: [voiceover] Our resident chef was known as Unhygienix.

    Unhygienix: Let's cook!

    Richard: [voiceover] On account of his obsession with soap.

    Unhygienix: Fish, fish, fish!

    [Scrubs hands and sniffs them]

    Unhygienix: Still I smell of fish!

  • Françoise: What are you talking about?

    Richard: Just making conversation.

    Françoise: Do you have a girlfriend?

    Richard: Here?

    Françoise: Anywhere.

    Richard: No, why?

    Françoise: Just making conversation.