Exploring Below

Rating: 6/10 (17 January 2008)

Often movies are about one character among a problem, and resolving it. Often they make a travel to solve the problem, story develops all surrounding the problem or obstacle.
"The Beach" has the quality of not being of a story, but more like a quest. It is about a group of youngsters fleeing from a frenzy society to form one of their own, and is good material leading to a profound narration, and Boyle uses his knowledge over the sublimation of messages and subtleties to accomplish it's goal: Society at it's most crude form develops, over a study of spatial behavior and human mentality, leadership and a poignant portrait of the Society's hierarchy and it's components.
This film is not conventional. It's about a form of discovery, when in the beach, a calm beach; we stay in contact with Nature and rediscover our most basic needs and desires. Boyle straps every character into the magnifying glass and delivers an unorthodox masterpiece.