Review of The Beach (2000) by Forgedsledge — 25 Feb 2023

You're born, you go-to school, you get job, a wife (or husband) and a house with a white picket fence, have a couple of kids, get old and die. Boring.

That's the mentality of my generation. The generation so desperate for something real and tangible that we could experience instead of something commercialized or prescribed. The ideals of the free love hippie parents who raised us, died. This is the basic philosophy of The Beach, one of young DiCaprio's many attempts at an Oscar. The beach, while a real place in the movie, is a metaphor for those moments in all our lives in which we try to find out who we are. But as in this movie, is the grass isn't greener on the other side. As the first work written by Alex Garland and directed by the then underappreciated Danny Boyle this movie is another one of those gems that went under the radar. I highly recommend it if you haven't seen it.