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Saturday 30 November 2013

The Blue Lagoon (1980)

I hadn't watched TBL before but was aware of its overinflated reputation.
Stranded on a tropical island from a young age, the two protagonists lack any kind of knowledge about what it means to be an adult. It’s interesting to speculate how their spiritual and emotional growth would develop when removed from society, but unless you approach it from a sociological and anthropological point of view it’s not a very satisfying story. It just kind of drifts along like a dead fish for a long time, shaken up by the occasional eddy. The ending is forgettable.

2½ old B+W photographs out of 5

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