Great Film overall

Absolutely Fantastic

It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

Despite all the complaints, this movie stills gets a 10 from me. But that's not surprising. I saw this movie when I was 13. Brook Shields was my first crush and the movie started my fascination with tropical islands. (Yeah, I know. Me and about a billion other guys.) I'm on the south side of my 40's and this movie is a nice reminder of younger days.

It may be old, but due to its nature it hasn't aged, The Blue Lagoon is set in the Victorian era, but you wouldn't know it for most of the film's duration.A boy and a girl get stranded on a tropical island where they spend many years, from childhood, through their teenage years and into young adulthood, eventually producing a child that neither knew they were going to have until it popped out. The Blue Lagoon is one of those very rare films that you could easily describe as being practically perfect, the way it handled the couples development as they both grew up was brilliant..., naturally Richard and Emmeline, played by a very young Brooke Shields and Christopher Atkins, begin to experience natural urges, only they don't know what they are and don't understand what's happening to them, they begin experimenting with sexual activity, and as I mentioned earlier, they eventually have a child together.The way The Blue Lagoon handles the sexual nature of the film is subtle and isn't overly exploited like a modern film would, it's raw and it's realistic. I like how the film isn't turned into a fight for survival, there are plenty of provisions and natural resources to keep the couple going indefinitely, therefore instead of being about survival, it's about development and growing up, showing how two youngsters would realistically live in this situation. For his brief stint in the film at the beginning, the ships chef Paddy, who also gets stranded provides some comic relief and the character is superbly acted by the late Leo McKern, but the film isn't about Paddy and he is swiftly killed off before the film truly gets going. For it's day (1980), the beautiful scenery and vivid bright pictures and framing are excellent, I was really impressed how production and filming took place on location in Fiji, rather than an artificial set like most of the films of the era were, this made the whole feel of the film so much better and added something special to the overall finished product.The Blue Lagoon was special then, and even more special now, a lovely picture that deserves to be watched and enjoyed, it may indeed contain its fair share of faults, but the film is so good these faults can easily be overlooked and ignored.

A really sweet and dream-like film with beautiful music. The acting was over-the-top for the first hour, but for the rest of the movie I thought it felt more genuine and considerated for the most part. I think it worked particularly well at the sequence when Emmeline has just had the baby and they have no idea _why_ she has had it and tries to feed it fruit. I'm thinking perhaps their acting was meant to be a bit exaggerated to emphasize how they sort of remain children since all they have is each other with no other contact with other people or impacts, apart from their memories. However, the dialogue came off as clumsy at times though.Further I would've thought it would be interesting to see Emmeline and Richard in "the real world", the civilisation, because surely these crucial years on the island affected them in many ways. How would they differ from other young adults? How would they perceive a world that they were never really part of? Maybe that was what they ending was trying to tell – that Emmeline and Richard would never be able to fully adapt to the society, considering it was so far from what they knew. As viewers we actually don't know know if they do die, if the berries are _that_ poisonous, although that is what we can assume, but still – the last lines are: "are they dead?", "no sir, they are asleep". They remain in the dreamlike state in which they have lived in most of their lives, leaving the outcome a bit open.

A modern day Adam and Eve are stranded on a deserted island and must learn to coop with the challenges it presents.The location shots set the scenes and are some of the most beautiful decorations to grace the screen.Richard and Em are almost a candidate for a documentary on how well mankind could make it without the comforts or technology we take for granted everyday. They revert back to their instincts of making shelter, learning how to make weapons, hunt, gather good and create fire all the skills you need to survive.They tried to hold onto the past they once knew, discover love sex that's hard for them to put into words and yet retain a child like innocence.The casting was interesting, if you had told me this was Brooke Sheilds Brian's first roles I would've called you a liar, are how I imagined them from the book.Yet it only adds to the tragic end as the small family try a last minute effort to sail off into the sea to save their only child who fell sick. Will they or won't they make it?The only film I can say that ever reached the brilliance and majesty of the lagoon was caste away.10/10