The Beach - Moby - Porcelain

Beach discovery scene from the Beach

[laurenadance]

This film is 20 years old and still one of my favourites. Gives me nostalgic chills

[ruruloffelmacher]

Man this scene gets me every time!
After I sold everything, quit my job, went to travel, and had the best time of my life, the day to come back to normality arrived. Then one day I watched this movie.
Especially this beach scene expresses exactly what I experienced while traveling. And the music fits perfectly too.
I really, really miss those great times and hope to experience something like it again.
This scene takes me back to a very good time in my life!

[falconoxii]

might just be me but my top favorite scene ever

[jdghgh]

The emotions that this film causes: the feeling of being part of something special, with only a few other special people. That there is a place in this rapidly advancing world that is still hidden and inviolate. To be able to share in the sacred duty of protecting that secret would, for me, be the greatest spiritual or religious experience imaginable.

[johnnacalverase]

This is what the early 2000's feel like.

[keyboarddancers]

This film came out towards the last few years of the ecstasy era hence the style of music. I know countless people who traveled to Thailand solely because of this film.
Because of this film, this beach became popular across the world and within a few years the beach and its ecosystem was totally and utterly destroyed by tourism and it is now closed to visitors.

[amirmatrix]

The reason of why we loved this
Is just about how we feel its old and new in the same time and how things where back in a day
Specially the music
Man its makes the earth spin around u

[Segasedge]

I first watched this movie when I was 17...at a strange time for me in my life. I was living in Philly, and found out I was moving away, but I didn't know where yet. I later found out it would be a beach town on the East coast. This movie stuck with me once I moved, I kept watching it every couple of months, it was always on cable in the 2000s. The concept of living at the beach was glamorized by this movie. I began living like everyone else there in the summer did, I was a tourist essentially, having been there for such a small amount of time. And was almost eager to move away from the beach as soon as the summer season ended, but I didn't. My parents ended up moving away as did the rest of my family. But I stayed. I liked it. Something felt right.

After getting into my groove, or as Richard puts it in the film "I found my location" I became one of the locals. Learned all the secret roads, secret spots, best times to go to the beach, etc. Although it's no secret island lagoon, its as close as Ive found to paradise. I go to the beach every morning in the summer, right before all the tourists show up. As soon as you see people show up with beach chairs and umbrellas you know it's time to leave. And I get to enjoy it all for myself once they leave at the end of the season. I guess what I'm trying to say is that seeing this movie so many times has changed me, has changed what I want out of life, I never want to live away from the beach for as long as I live.

[henkdevries]

This movie Made me want to backpack through south east asia. Been there in 2017 its really amazing

[jlbrache]

I travel to Thailand because of this film, it took me 15 years but I did

[raysdk]

I get chills to this day and had to visit Thailand after this.

[lucianf]

When I was ten years old, this specific scene made me want to visit Thailand- I did and it was amazing except for the hundreds of other tourists who did the same

[BrianMcAleer]

went to this beach in 2002. all I could think of was that song as I lay on the sand and swam in the water.

[deadpaul]

Leo is just the greatest actor of all time imo

[motchycot]

This image will last a lifetime in my memory.
Most amazing place ive ever been to.

Phi phi island is pure heaven.
If you ever get the chance come here, it will blow you away.
🙏

[brandonmiller]

The emptiness when only memories are left...

[brgimscht]

i remember watching this the first time with my brother. easy times back then

[JhonatanNeneh]

I have a memory of this movie: it was around 2003, I was 9 years old, on a Saturday night, November. I was in the south of "Minas de Gerais", in Brazil, with my father and my brother in a restaurant at the entrance to the city of Campestre, close to Poços de Caldas.
I remember that in this place there was a machine where you took teddy bears, watches... with a claw.
My father and brother were trying, and I was watching a TV. There was a movie on Globo. And it was this movie, and right in the scene this song played, it stuck in my mind. And far away on the highway I saw a motorcycle, I heard the noise of it moving away... I remember my father and my brother with a watch, claiming that it was impossible to catch, in a single happiness. Good times, and these days my father isn't even with us anymore.

I've always dreamed of one day living in the vibe of this film: a heavenly place with an open mind, always the Sun, Blue Sky, Waters... who knows, maybe one day I'll realize this dream, and then with someone I love. Until then we will live.

Eu tenho uma memória deste filme: era por volta de 2003, eu tinha 9 anos, num Sábado à noite, Novembro. Eu estava no Sul de Minas com pai e meu irmão em um restaurante na entrada da cidade de Campestre, próxima à Poços de Caldas.
Lembro que neste lugar tinha uma máquina onde você pegava ursinhos, relógios... com uma garra.
Meu pai e meu irmão ficaram tentando pegar, e eu fiquei olhando a TV. Estava passando um filme na Globo. E era este filme, e justo na cena onde tocou essa música, ficou gravada em minha mente. E distante na rodovia eu vi uma moto, ouvi o barulho dela se distanciando... lembro que meu pai e meu irmão voltaram com um relógio que pegaram alegando que era impossível terem conseguido aquilo, numa felicidade só. Bons tempos, e atualmente meu pai nem está mais entre nós.

Desde então eu sempre sonhei um dia viver na vibe deste filme: um lugar paradisíaco com pessoal mente aberta, sempre o Sol, céu Azul, Águas... quem sabe um dia não realizo este sonho, e ainda com alguém que eu amo. Até lá vamos vivendo.

[flyingscot]

Whag what a time it was to be young! Remember the scene at the end when it takes 30 seconds to load the photo?
Such a nostalgic snapshot of that/our/my youth x

[zanjchat]

My mom heard this song play in a perfume ad a while back and told me she loved the song because it played in this scene of this movie :)