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Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tilda Swinton, Robert Carlyle
Directed By: Danny Boyle
Synopsis: The desire to find something real -- to connect with something or someone -- is what drives Richard (Leonardo DiCaprio), a young American backpacker who arrives in Thailand with adventure on his mind. Etienne (Guillaume Canet) and Francoise (Virginie Ledoyen) join him on an adventure to "The Beach," a mystical paradise. However, this paradise is less than perfect.

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[pozzarefds]

I remember arriving in Thailand as a 20 year old in 1995 who had never even set foot outside of the UK before. It was a wild experience, not from the girl bars / drinking etc, but just the whole experience of a new world to me. I remember leaving Heathrow in the middle of a cold winter and being stuck on plane for 12 hours, to then step outside Don Mueang International Airport and experience the heat and smells of Bangkok hit me right in the face. I was absolutely captivated, the strange writing on the signs and buildings, monks going about their business and stray dogs everywhere, often in gangs. I boarded a train to head to Khaosan road, but from being a cheap traveler I went for standard class and stood the whole way. A big pale, sweaty ginger kid from the UK, made me someone to stare at and receive many smiles, as I stood and listened to the chilli peppers on my Sony Walkman cassette player.

I remember the Khaosan road so well. Back then a luxury benefit of a guest house was being able to watch a 'VDO' in the half lobby / half cafe, while you munched on a banana pancake and shyly watched all these beautiful tanned girls in hippie clothes from countries like Denmark or Israel float past. There were no smartphones, ipads etc and internet was as slow as anything (a web page would take about 10 seconds to load), so you never posted your life to instagram or stared at the world through a small black box, instead you soaked it all in through your own eyes, etched forever into your own memory for only you to see.

I headed south to Krabi (very undeveloped then) and over time my white skin tanned and I dropped a bit of baby fat from eating less from the heat. I looked like a more seasoned traveller hippy type. I was gutted when I came back to the UK. I remember walking around in flip flops, smoking my last packet of krong thip cigarettes and wanting to smile at everyone, but I was again in a different land and had to slowly adjust back, but part of my heart stayed in Thailand. Now I sit as a 50 year old bloke in my own house with a family and career, but I would so love to go back in time and experience that part of my life again.

[sbonfye]

Just watched this movie and man it was refreshing to see a film that’s just that ..a film …not a blockbuster, or comic book characters ..a great story/acting and man the 2000’s feel of the movie was delightful, im 30 and it just felt amazing !

[orsolyabalogh]

I’ve been to Thailand 5 times already. I spent 5 days in Phi phi island this January, and on the final day of my trip I went to the balcony of my bungalow
to listen some music with a glass of Chang beer while my boyfriend was packing. Moby - Porcelain was on my playlist and it came up with no reason... I was just sitting and watching the sea and the trees, feeling the breeze of piece and happiness... eventually I felt myself as one with the nature and the universe, no words could describe that moment. Im 35 now, I was young when the movie ran, but in that moment I realized what was the message of The Beach movie. Wish I was in Thailand 20 years ago, when no iphone, no social media was existed... when people lived the moment, instead if recording it.

[eb]

"I still believe in paradise. But now at least I know it's not some place you can look for. Because it's not where you go. It's how you feel for a moment in your life when you're a part of something. And if you find that moment... It lasts forever" great movie and soundtrack

[bravium]

Early 90's and 2000s were the best

[larrywilliams]

I feel you Mike. I did that '6 months backpacking in Asia' in 2000 and had a blast! It was the happiest time of my life! Not knowing where my love and I would be tomorrow was the sweetest way to live. We really lived for the moment. My love died a few tears back and I am broken. Those times linger and I occasionally go back there to feel the magic.

[Heyya]

cult classic of our generation. This always brings a tear to me. When life was simple back then. In a parallel universe.

[eefz]

This movie is really interesting because it basically represents the idea that we all have of how a perfect picture of paradise should look like, yet it never turns out to be exactly that way. Turns out there’s always a reality check along the way. But reflecting on life and having done some backpacking myself, I still look back with much gratitude and happiness to my travels. It may never be the picture you painted in your head, but that’s actually the fun about it, you never know how it will go !

[alex-internetlubber]

Does anybody else feel there was something ephemerally different and special about the late 1990s? The coming millenium, movies like The Beach, the first season of Survivor, the internet and what it was back then, and just the general atmosphere and culture, it's hard to put a finger on it but those years were special, in many ways

[mikeuptegrove]

The film epitomized what would come to represent a large part of the lives so many of us from that time would go on to live. We all fell in love with the idea of meeting a beautiful French girl, backpacking indefinitely, on a shoestring budget, in some tropical paradise with little rules and lots of tropical parties. Regretfully, the lesson that was lost upon us all probably has become all too real for many. That is, that paradise is a state of mind, not a destination frozen in time. I wonder if any of us will ever be whole again, endlessly longing to relive those carefree, formative, adventures of those youthful years. It's been 20 years now, and I actually did move to a tropical island to do my life like The Beach, and yet I still yearn for some other beach, something that probably doesn't exist. I know it doesn't. For one brief moment though, like Richard, I had it all, the beach and the dark haired French girl of my parallel universe.

[bayrain]

Just watched this movie randomly, never heard of it before and I have to admit that it was the first time in months… maybe in years that I felt genuine happiness. The scene when they get to the beach and the Moby song is playing. Pure full body ecstasy and euphoria. I needed this.

[jjh]

I did my first backpacking trip when was 19. I'm 29 now and it changed my life forever. I knew from that point on I wanted to see the world and explore it as much as I could. This film reminded me so much of that feeling I had during my early years on the road, and my desire to always be living life to the full, seeing new things, dating beautiful foreign women, partying and such. It really captures that sense of excitement and fun that all young people feel when they pack up their bags and head abroad.


I guess reality hits you eventually and you start to realise you can't do it forever. This film reminded me so much of that coming-of-age moment I had where I realised it is those around you that make you truly happy, but goddamn were those good times. Nothing but fun, drinking, women and a sense that the world can't tie you down.

I'll never let it go, and am even settling in Asia in the next year or two, but I'm doing it with my beautiful long term girlfriend and a stable career. I'll never let that feeling of wonder truly go.

[bellaggio]

The beach was sooo secret that it was 1 mile away, and visible from the main beach.

[lucignolo]

I’m 25, I remember seeing this movies as a child and seeing it now makes me feel so nostalgic about the 2000’s.
Time really flies by

[Lamonte]

This movie transfers for me the feeling of longing for paradise on earth. It brings me to tears.

[HeartCoils]

There is a very specific feeling generated by watching this movie that no other movie out there can reproduce.

[weareone]

Best line of the movie, desire is desire after all, it does not matter where you are. You can not control it.

[ComptonCool]

"Desire is Desire. Wherever you go. The sun will not bleach it nor the tide wash it away."- Richard

[YeezusMinem]

I saw this movie without watching the trailer and I’m so glad that I did, the trailer pretty much gave the whole story away. If they had just sold it as a getaway paradise movie trust me people would’ve been more mind blown, I was caught off guard by it.

[mRcordwilK]

i never wanted this movie to get old as it was a classic for its day and still is