Heaven, when I first saw you, I refused.

Jess 2022-01-26 08:08:37

When the three of Richard came to the beach, facing this paradise, you asked yourself from the bottom of your heart, "If there is such a paradise, would you be willing to go? Would you like to live here?" My answer is, absolutely not! If you yearn for such a paradise, then you are saying no to all the efforts of mankind for thousands of years! You can gather three or five friends to live in a place where there is no human beings in the deep mountains and old forests. You can find like-minded fellow Taoists on the Internet. In modern society, not many people are willing to pay attention to those who live in the deep mountains and old forests. Everyone is very busy, and you can totally enjoy yourself in it. Then wait for the desire to ferment in it. It won't take decades, three or five years, and you may go home in just a few months.

You can believe in such a good life - someone returning to the mountains and forests to wash away the lead. In such news, have you delved into it? When a person who has experienced the convenience, entertainment, consumption, emotion, and desire of modern society, are you willing to believe that people will give up these and return to the mountains and forests to live a primitive life? Do you believe it when people type their own life experiences in the mountains and forests while typing on the keyboard and then post them on the Internet to watch your likes and comments? I do not believe! Do you believe it when he takes the words of the sunrise and sunset and rests on the beautiful nature, and then grabs huge profits?

In the film, the nature of all desires is predictable, dark side, depravity, hypocrisy, concealment, secret, jealousy, jealousy, and sexual desire has nothing to hide. It doesn't even look like a sugar-coated cannonball, it just doesn't look that good. The film doesn't paint us a beautiful trap, it's far from the utopian paradise life depicted in Brave New World, the buoyant looking so alluring that lures you like a deal with the devil. ster. It looks like a trap on this small island of idle youth groups. There's nothing convincing about their infatuation. And it doesn't take long for the dark side to be exposed. When the founder of Kojima left and even went crazy, maybe he was deeply impressed by the absurdity of utopia and cursed people as parasites. Maybe he gave Richard the map just to make him realize that, otherwise why would he leave? I can't think of another explanation for why I committed suicide. It is difficult for his departure to lie about the authenticity of the utopian image of the island, so how can the people of the island enjoy it so simply. In short, what I want to say is that the problem of this small island is too obvious, it can't be used as a sweet cage to trap people in it.

If it is a dystopia, then the utopia created by the film is completely different from that. The authenticity of this utopia lacks full temptation, the foreshadowing in the early stage satiated the appetite, the depiction of Thailand (modern society) degenerate, chaotic, and intoxicated, and the longing for Xanadu, when finally found Xanadu, like an adult taking Looking at the rainbow he just painted, he said to another person, "Look, how does this rainbow compare to the one in the sky?"

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  • Eldora 2022-04-24 07:01:03

    Tears are streaming down my face! ! ! Another movie I saw when I was a kid! ! Impressive! ! !

  • 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

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.