I don't like Paradise (dvd)

Rating: 7/10 (10 July 2011)

This movie illustrates brilliantly the idea that i came with my spiritual reading: while revealed books speak about paradise as ultimate reward, with gold, women, my concern was about the one I love down there and who could be sentenced to hell! How could i be happy to be in Paradise if they weren't?
Here the dilemma may be different but the anguish is the same: Heaven can turn into Hell, and as the movie intelligently points out, where do you go then if you want to leave Paradise?
Another good testimony here is the numbness and delusion of modern life: actually, we experience a lot of virtual pleasure (as reading this web screen now) and we have lost touch with what is real! Thus, we have all inside us this yearning for a simpler life, communicating with people that we can actually touch! The global village is just a mirage because our body is attached to one location at one time.
At last, the movie offers another great truth about ultimate freedom and doing whatever we want. This isn't paradise because it's indeed the pathway to hell, the right journey to madness!
With all those subversive ideas, Boyle delivers a great movie, a modern parable that he explains with his commentary. The Leo we see here is the Leo i don't like: conquering, arrogant, liar, cheater and worse. But it's a intelligent trick to pose him as the hero, all the more he is not more the "King of the world". At last, being french, it's funny to see my fellows (Ledoyen, Canet, De Fougerolles) in a international movie!