Paradise in nowhere

Golda 2022-04-22 07:01:05

Continue to find the CD2 of "Beach". Little Leo is indeed a witty and humorous young man. A typical American boy, who is persistent and loves adventure, has no principles, is more than brave and is easy to split, and friendship is very different for different people in the face of adversity.
Xiao Li runs away and wanders in search of adventure and excitement. On an island in Thailand, he accidentally fell in love with Franoise, a French girl who has a boyfriend. Met a crazy Duffy that night. Before Duffy cut his wrists to commit suicide the next day, he handed over a map to Richard, the paradise that Duffy mentioned last night to escape the dregs and parasites of society. Richard mustered up his courage and invited the young couple to explore together, and he really agreed. Such is the fearlessness of the Americans and the whims of the Europeans. After some tossing, the trio came to the paradise where marijuana is everywhere. It's the legendary beach. This also proves that the madman Duffy did not lie, of course not, this peaceful paradise was founded by Duffy.
The utopian life here, led by the leader Sal, is isolated from the world except for purchasing the necessities of life. Heaven is a place that looks beautiful, but it is not necessary to endure the hunger of cutting off food sources, and it still cannot fill the gap of desire left between the world. Paradise, people who are just tired of being handcuffed from 9 to 5, have no hope of living on the fringes of society. Rather than exist in the dispensable, it is better to completely hide as a refuge. It was as if he hid in a basket, and then hung a sign outside, "Here is the paradise you can't find", and then enjoyed the sunshine penetrating through the mesh.
After Xiao Li digs to the bottom of the wall, he finally does another big thing. Suspiciously, he takes out a knife from his empty body and kills the shark by himself. This is the pinnacle of his paradise. Later, I went shopping in town with Sal, and brought back not tranquility but the threat of a series of beaches. Before coming, Xiao Li copied a map to a few passers-by. It is estimated that it has spread, and the beach is no longer a secret. When more people go, the beach is a tourist attraction. Xiao Li was therefore isolated. I especially like this part. In order to solve loneliness, people create their own wild survival games. A very bitter loner, of course, developed a second personality. Duffy's death was so sudden that this experience of danger became something in Richard's bones. Richard began to have a grand plan to prevent new members from entering Utopia. At this time, Xiao Li was already possessed by Duffy, or the roles were reversed. Saying the same thing as the night of the first encounter, but the characters are just the opposite, Duffy is right in saying "are you having a problem with your brain?" This reminds me of "Shutter Island" and "Inception", Xiao Li's split does not seem to be a day or two, and the origin is 11 years old. Human nature is selfish. Xiao Li gave the lives of four tourists for Utopia. Before the peasants wanted to escape, they directly suffocated the dying passerby.
SAL's ruthless last shot made the castle-like paradise collapse in an instant. People would never agree to a devil who sacrificed Richard for a moment of peace to rule their paradise. She can sacrifice this one, and naturally she will sacrifice the next. The moment the hemp farmer shot the empty gun and showed that smile, I think it was a mockery of people who believed in the existence of paradise in this world. In fact, he cheated, there were no bullets in the revolver, he just wanted to watch a play, watching the so-called heaven collapse in front of the occupants themselves.
Heaven doesn't really exist somewhere, much less in some nook and cranny that most people can't find. I don't even know where he is. It's just a temporary spiritual resting place, when you don't want to talk to anyone and you don't feel lonely, you're in a paradise. Some people have disputes and entanglements, but individuals cannot escape, so only the mind can be regarded as a pure land.

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Extended Reading
  • Celestine 2022-03-22 09:01:24

    Cannabis paradise, the unsustainable utopia will fall apart. All kinds of familiar faces, no guessing, ice and snow queen, train guessing, Thailand's beauty and fierceness are two sides. Legend has it that Xiao Li's role was supposed to be Ewan McGregor, so Ewan broke up with Danny Boyle? The role of the second otaku was indeed not suitable for Xiao Li, who was young and beautiful at the time. It is estimated that the style of the whole film given to Ivan will be very different.

  • Earl 2022-03-21 09:01:27

    I saw the news on my trip to Chiang Mai last month: "From May 2019, Maya Bay in Thailand will be closed until 2021. This was the filming location for Leonardo's "The Beach". Before Maya Bay was closed, there were up to 5,000 people visited, causing many coral reefs to die." I didn't expect the film to be 19 years ago, and it was only three years after he finished "Titanic". I wanted to see this movie many, many years ago, but because I always felt that the word "Utopia" had a childish fantasy, so I never planned to watch it. This time, because of the closure of Maya Bay, I had the opportunity to read it. An American boy who comes to Thailand on a solo adventure accidentally gets a map of a beach island where he can grow marijuana. It's really a beautiful place, where he found golf mates, got a beautiful French girlfriend, and became a shark-fighting hero. Then, one by one, I lost everything I got. This is not utopia, this is life.

The Beach quotes

  • Daffy: Pay them in dollars and fuck their daughters.

  • Richard: You hope, and you dream. But you never believe that something's gonna happen for you. Not like it does in the movies. And when it actually does, you want it to feel different, more visceral, more real. I was waiting for it to hit me, but it just wouldn't happen. The police were pissed cuz he was traveling under a false passport. But they didn't ask me about the map, so - I didn't tell 'em.