Humanity is the natural enemy of utopia

Malvina 2022-03-15 09:01:03

"Scott suffers because everyone wants to have fun. On the perfect beach, nothing is allowed to interfere with happiness, even death." This is a film that can make idealism enter a short-lived climax and bring it back to reality. Plum has become a tourist, a stowaways, a farmer, a monkey, a Duffy, and finally himself. Without the existence of human nature, utopia cannot exist, and there is a price to be paid to reach heaven, sometimes even a dirty price. Pleasure and pain are caused by thoughts, and sometimes heaven can become hell with just a slight push or external interference, or in other words, heaven and hell coexist. There are imperfections in the way the film is shot, but it does not prevent people from seeing the ideas the director wants to express.

View more about The Beach reviews

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

    Blu-ray reset. The island of Thailand in the movie is well chosen, and some of the filming methods are close to landscape documentaries. After re-watching, it still feels beautiful, and the original sound is also good. The translation name of "Psychedelic Beach" may be more suitable. Thailand here is not only a utopian secret, but also a degenerate place where tourists pour their desires (unfortunately, there is no more rehearsal), Boyle asked Xiao Li to perform a tribute to "Apocalypse Now" in the middle (the original film appeared directly in the front). ), but this section has no obvious connection with the previous and previous plots. The utopia here is in a tangle, often caught in the contradiction between modern productivity and supporting moral norms VS primitive lifestyle, and the companion who died after being bitten by a shark caused a moral controversy (unable to get modern medical treatment), sexual morality is still valid on the island (the four-corner relationship between Xiao Li and the heroine and others), they have to go to Thailand, which they despise to buy daily necessities, and the island where they desperately keep the coordinates is actually in the local area Under the control of drug dealers, people who rely on modern society have created an embarrassing third-world utopian corner. This irony is quite obvious, and it is also a good horror element. Either bright or confusing tones are quite in line with the plot

  • Janie 2022-03-23 09:01:28

    Heaven is a moment in your life that you can feel when you are part of it. You go through that moment, and heaven is there forever.

The Beach quotes

  • Richard: [suffocates Christo, then kisses him on the forehead]

  • Richard: Alright alright alright alright. Now before I start there's-there's just a couple things you have to remember... Number one: you have to remain calm, right? And number two: you have to show no fear, because the sharks, you see, the sharks they can sense that fear, just as easily as they can sense blood. And so it went for me. Just as I knew it would. Just as nature had ordained, its jaw wide open. Row upon row of these razor sharp teeth glinting underwater like jagged diamonds. Its tail fin sweeping back and forth as it surged in for the kill. I swear to God, my whole life flashed before my eyes. Really, I had nothing left to offer except for pure reflex. Pure relfex, and mankind's basic drive for survival that somehow shouts NO! I WILL NOT! DIE! TODAY! And at that instant man I knew it was either the shark or me. The shark knew it. I knew it. But jeez God, i-it's nothing p-personal, ya know, it's just the way the world works, right? It's nature. But, if I remember correctly, in that last glimmer of its eyes... there was a moment between us... where it said hey Richard man... enjoy your dinner.