The Blue Lagoon (1980)

How sad is this?

A lot more amusing than I thought it would be.

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

A really sweet and dream-like film with beautiful music. The acting was over-the-top for the first hour, but for the rest of the movie I thought it felt more genuine and considerated for the most part. I think it worked particularly well at the sequence when Emmeline has just had the baby and they have no idea _why_ she has had it and tries to feed it fruit. I'm thinking perhaps their acting was meant to be a bit exaggerated to emphasize how they sort of remain children since all they have is each other with no other contact with other people or impacts, apart from their memories. However, the dialogue came off as clumsy at times though.Further I would've thought it would be interesting to see Emmeline and Richard in "the real world", the civilisation, because surely these crucial years on the island affected them in many ways. How would they differ from other young adults? How would they perceive a world that they were never really part of? Maybe that was what they ending was trying to tell – that Emmeline and Richard would never be able to fully adapt to the society, considering it was so far from what they knew. As viewers we actually don't know know if they do die, if the berries are _that_ poisonous, although that is what we can assume, but still – the last lines are: "are they dead?", "no sir, they are asleep". They remain in the dreamlike state in which they have lived in most of their lives, leaving the outcome a bit open.

not more. only an escape from every day universe far away. beautiful location. seductive scenes of grow up. beautiful young people, tension, reinvent of the history of humanity, romanticism, adventure, flavor of the pages of Jules Verne and dreams with open eyes of the first ages. few drops of controversies. and a decent/predictable script. not more. not new. but useful for special days and evenings and afternoon. first I saw it in 1987. under the Communist regime. on the video player. and I was fascinated. it was more than a movie - it was magic. after few decades, it seems to me be far to be remarkable. or good film. or credible. but, for the emotion of a young man at 11 years who was me in 1987, I admit - The Blue Lagoon is a must see. once in life. at the best age.

It's late 19th century. Young Richard Lestrange, his widowed father and orphaned cousin Emmeline Lestrange are on a clipper to San Francisco. Fire engulfs the ship and the cook Paddy Button (Leo McKern) takes the kids into a lifeboat. They get separated from the other lifeboat by the fog and land on a tropic island in the Pacific. They find skulls, signs of natives, and a cast of rum. Paddy drowns after a drunken binge. Richard (Christopher Atkins) and Emmeline (Brooke Shields) move to an isolated beach building a new home.This is hormone cinema wrapped in a Swiss Family Robinson adventure. The hormone cinema is cringe-worthy. This is not a subtle movie. It is deliberately pushing out the young flesh for public consumption. However as a young boy, this was a guilty pleasure. I can't complain about the sincerity of the young actors. This is generally a bad movie but everybody can like a few of those.

I have to be honest I'm really not someone who enjoys a romantic film in fact I often find them to be too predictable and similar, but I regress, I first watched this film with my Nan, which as many can imagine who have seen this movie was a little awkward.I'm not a great believer in the need for nudity in a movie either because most of us can probably guess what's happening (although don't get me wrong I think it is amazingly brave of the actors/actresses that do partake in nude scenes). But for a change in this movie it became a symbol for the nature and freedom that the two have and after all if they are not within the laws of society why would they think it should be any different.This movie felt so human and shows the naivety of human nature that I have yet to find in any other film. The story of two people growing up without the knowledge that so many of us are entitled to is refreshing. It is also interesting to see some of these elements that are inevitably kept out of Hollywood for fear of being unglamorous.As two young actors I think they were both incredibly brave for taking on such a mammoth task and portrayed every element perfectly. It's is a raw and realistic piece that almost feels like a documentary to a point, as it doesn't exude romance or have cheesy one-liners, it is just very natural.The cinematography is absolutely stunning and the location is beautiful and excellently used. It's funny and relatable on a human level and is beautifully romantic without the need for any over-dramatic soundtracks or people running towards each other in the rain. The simplicity of the plot and of the characters' natures makes the film and I have never gotten bored of watching it.