In 1996 Alex Garland's novel "The Beach" was released, and four years later, in 2000, director Danny Boyle and actor Leonardo DiCarpio made the film adaptation of that novel. Twelve years later, I would see it, and today, six years after having seen it, I have seen it again to make a review for Steemit. That's why today, we'll talk about The Beach.

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Year: 2000 Category: Drama, Thriller. Director: Danny Boyle
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tilda Swinton, Virginie Ledoyen, Guillaume Canet, Robert Carlyle,

Plot

The desire to find something authentic, to connect with something or someone, is what drives Richard, a young backpacker who goes to Thailand to live an adventure. Richard travels in search of experiences, he looks for something different. Once in the Asian country, Richard is staying at a bad hotel in Bangkok, where he meets a French couple, Étienne and Françoise. In addition, he meets Daffy, a traveler destroyed by years of sun and drugs. Tortuous and paranoid, Daffy tells Richard a fantastic story about a secret island, a paradise on Earth: the perfect beach, never found by tourists.

Opinion

Paradise has existed since time immemorial in the minds of men, like a garden of flowers and delicious fruits, in which happiness and enjoyment are achieved without much effort. In this idyllic place there are no jobs or tensions, everything is within reach, desires are fulfilled without fatigue or anguish. The film shows us a clear message: is there a perfect place? Is there a paradise?

With this film the viewer enters a perfect utopian world and if something has taught us the story is that after the calm comes the storm. After the journey to reach the idyllic island, Richard, François and Étienne, the protagonists, will soon discover that nothing is what it seems. The inhabitants of the island receive them and take them to the leader, Sal. Despite being a society far from civilization, they have established an order that has required leadership, and Sal has been responsible for maintaining this order in a somewhat authoritarian manner.

Richard, François and Étienne are incorporated into the tasks of this autonomous society and in parallel their relationship will evolve dangerously while we get to know the community and its functioning, to later see the beginning of the decline of that ideal society.

So Richard wakes up from the fantasy and decides it's time to leave the paradise that has begun to fall apart. The farmers of the neighboring island no longer trust that the inhabitants of the beach are keeping the secret and test the loyalty towards the cause of Sal in front of the whole community. And then she shows how far she is willing to go, and what she is willing to sacrifice, to maintain order.

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Score

6/10

The film is not outstanding, however, I know a group of people, including myself, who we liked in a very unique way, which is why the film is moderately recommended, but I would not bet anything for it.