"So what? Kiss me!"
Richard
The Blue Lagoon
1980
A tale about growing up and the innocence of youth. The admiration of the first time, the understanding of the changing body and the growing heart. Love found innocence in The Blue Lagoon, and innocence found love on a shipwrecked island.
This film enters a timing event where simple was taken for granted. It appeared that time was just as valuable as the act of love. It appeared as innocence was about understanding change and evoking on hope for rescue.
Learning about ones self is sometimes intimidating. Learning about another through the eyes of ones innocence can often be just as alarming. What I adored about this simple story and stranded storyline was that in all honesty it was complex feelings tackled by the ease of the simplicity.
Can you imagine a youth growing up with only the sand and wind and ocean as a distraction? Hormones rushing. Body changing and evolving. Life mimicking art and art taking a snapshot at reality? I think about how surroundings, environment, circumstances and proximity can change a person. I think about how sometimes we are better yet to stay clear than to actually engage and feel something new.
I was once told that experiencing something new and different has its challenges because of the aftermath. I was once told that experiencing something unknown was about letting go of fear and enabling the experience to happen.
I think that if I grew up on a shipwrecked island with just another person, I am sure that curiosity would take over a lot of difference in opinion. I think experimenting with life's changing anomalies would suffice enough of the day that perhaps the days wouldn't appear as long.
Teen angst, youth adolescence and even the classification of manhood and womanhood have just about enough in common as the reality that experiencing experience is about taking the seriousness out of the reality, and learning to accept the way its just supposed to happen.
The Blue Lagoon was embedded with culture and embedded with situations we've all can easily relate to.
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The most favorable review I could find on Rotten Tomatoes was this one: "Their romance is enhanced by Nestor Almendros' exquisite photography (and Basil Poledouris' score), as is the stunning beauty of the Fiji island where it was filmed." One of the negative ones: "At a little over 100 minutes, the film feels as if huge chunks of it were edited out for pace; however, the wrong chunks have been cut." Those movie critics!!
Now she is a soccer Mum..:)
I had forgotten this movie too.:)
rated with hugs and eyes half open at 6;23 am..:)
designanator... The Rotten Tomatoes review is classic. Fiji is awesome and so peaceful. Brooke Sheilds was gorgeous in this film. She still is.
Linda.. I know!!! You are telling me ;-)