Year:
2000
Studio:
20th Century Fox
Movie:
3/5
DVD:
3/5
Teaser
Richard (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a traveller. Not a tourist for tourists
merely visit a country and expect all the comforts and blandness of
home. Richard wants to experience the real world and he finds himself
in Thailand amid beauty and ugliness.
There he meets the borderline insane Daffy (Robert Carlyle), who tells
Richard about this paradisical beach on a remote island off the coast.
Richard is skeptical, until he finds a handdrawn map left on his door
and Daffy dead in his room — suicide.
Now Richard is intrigued and resolves to visit this beach. But he
doesn't want to go it alone so he enlists a young French couple —
Etienne (Guillaume Canet) and Françoise (Virginie Ledoven) — to
accompany him. Little do they know that Paradise requires sacrifices.
Movie
The Beach is a drama about human nature. Just going to the beach and
frolicking around would have made a rather dull movie — or a good porn
movie. The movie focuses on Richard and explores some fundamental
questions: what are people willing to do to maintain paradise and what
happens when the contradictions catch up to you?
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Actors
I may not think much of DiCaprio but he does a good job playing
Richard. He's a convincing liar and a charming American and his faults
ultimately doom Paradise.
DVD
Cast and Crew biographies for a lot of people. Nine deleted scenes,
including Director's commentary. Storyboards for the opening scenes and
arrival at The Beach plus at least three other scenes. Music video: All
Saints' "Pure Shore". 5-minute promo featurette. Commercials and
trailers. Director Danny Boyle's audio commentary.
Recommendations
The Beach is an average movie, reminiscent of Survivor gone wrong. It
does have a plot and storyline and explores some interesting areas. But
it didn't really draw me into the movie. It's at least a watchable
movie.
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