The Beach is a film about a group of people who live in a remote and beautiful beach far from the busy world to show the real human love and selfishness. The film was released in the United States in February 2000.
The film was originally written by Alec Grant’s novel “The Beach”, which was published in 1996 to critical acclaim, but the good reviews did not attract the attention of director Danny Boyle, who rose to prominence with “Guess the Train”, and his friends strongly recommended the book’s striking imagery: “An isolated island with a secret organization”. that only piqued his curiosity. Danny Boyle said that the topic of the book “The Beach” resonates with modern people because it speaks to a key point: nature cannot be transformed just because man wants to.
Richard, an American journalist, goes to Thailand for a vacation and gets a mysterious map from a hotel by chance, so he and a French couple met on the way to find the legendary paradise together. It turns out that there is already a community of pioneers living there, and they have made an agreement with the local farmers who grow marijuana on the island in order to enjoy the primitive and free life, not to reveal their traces to the public. However, the lost map lured four men and women to venture out, and the farmers violently disbanded their community.
The film is philosophical, far-reaching and evocative. The film’s cinematographer uses impeccable technique to create a world of phantasmagoric beauty from sky to water, from city to shipwreck, from stillness to movement, from rapidity to calmness.
The Beach” borrows the genre of wilderness adventure films to express the theme of returning to nature, but unfortunately lacks the development of the peak and the heart-tugging plot. The film is a superficial exploration of human nature and environmental issues, the original writing is very CULT, but the effect of the film is pseudo-CULT, was originally expected to work after the release but suffered a small blow, not only failed to make Leonardo DiCaprio complete the transition from iconoclasm to strength, even Danny Boyle is seen as a weak follow-up, and even because the crew in the field of littering The film’s theme of environmental issues is ironic, as it was accused by the Thai government of littering.
The film Leonardo began to try to get rid of the image of a young teenager, but this literary film does not suit the aesthetic appetite of the public, the effect after the public release was a failure, it brought a series of trouble, but also dragged Leonardo into a dilemma.