About the theme of "Beach"

Ashleigh 2022-03-22 09:01:24

The beach and the life on the beach are always just beautiful bubbles. Everyone who yearns for the beach has more or less their own reasons, but one thing is common - stay away from the "cancer" on the mainland, but they don't know this. The "cancer" has nothing to do with the region. As long as there are groups, the "cancer" cannot get rid of it. When they dumped the man bitten by the shark, the "cancer" was there just not enough to attract attention; the four newly landed tourists were killed by the locals, who then held the migrants on the beach accountable, These are all necessary processes for the "cancer" to mature. In the end, when the leader of the immigrants chose to pull the trigger, the "cancer" was already ripe and there was no chance to save it, and the rest of the immigrants were all accomplices. Everyone realized this. At that time, the so-called beach was no different from the mainland.

Xiao Lizi was asked by the leader to settle the four new tourists and destroy the map. What was the role of that long scene where he "goes crazy" alone, which is relatively broken and flying? I think it's his personal awakening process, there's a scene where he's in a dark room ignoring anyone in a "psychopathic" state, at that point he's already "awakened", he's the first to realize that in the beach group People with "cancerous tumors" are like the crazy Duffy I met in the hotel before. He is one of the four pioneers of the beach and the first person to leave the beach on his own initiative. So when the leader was about to pull the trigger at Xiao Lizi, what Xiao Lizi showed was neither resistance nor begging for mercy, but a reminder.

What's interesting is that the source of the fatal blow to the "calm and beautiful" paradise life on the beach is also Xiao Lizi. At the beginning, because of his fear of the unknown, he left clues to attract others to the beach for peace of mind.

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Extended Reading

The Beach quotes

  • Richard: I told myself spreading news was part of a traveller's nature, but if I was being completely honest, I was just like everybody else: shit-scared of the great unknown. Desperate to take a little piece of home with me.

  • Richard: When you develop an infatuation for someone you always find a reason to believe that this is exactly the person for you. It doesn't need to be a good reason. Taking photographs of the night sky, for example. Now, in the long run, that's just the kind of dumb, irritating habit that would cause you to split up. But in the haze of infatuation, it's just what you've been searching for all these years.