The Beach

This movie is incredible. I highly recommend anyone watch it for a number of reasons. THe main one being that it shows the depths of apathy human beings are willing to commit their selves to if the sanctuary of their society is threatened by the discontent, whimpering, suffering, or pain of another person. That people are quite happy, comparably so, if the evil doers and miserable people who threaten our blessed lives are kept out of sight.

In the movie a member of the secret society gets bit by a shark and is incapable of not bemoaning constantly due to the pain he is in. First there is sympathy for him because he was victimized, but after a while, everyone begins to loathe him for making too much noise and being a killjoy. They decide it would be best if they placed him somewhere in the woods and left him to die out there as opposed to audibly doing the same where the populace are attempting to enjoy their paradise.

This reminds me significantly of how often people are willing to let sufferers be. Not just in the case of people who get rich and don't give a shit about anyone except those that visit or live in their luxurious abodes. But also those that maintain interaction with normal people who don't make them reevaluate their lives. People become rejects because of this. Its the sole purpose any one person is not accepted whether in high school or a corporate job. Hell, what this society considers a weirdo is also less likely to even get a job at all. But those that do are the butt of a plethora of jokes and a few displays of artificial comradery. They don't get the chance to form close bonds with males or females because everyone's afraid of something thats mroe different than usual and people don't want to believe that not everyone has the same likelihood of being the successful normal person who loves life until its over.

"See my neighbor beating his wife....because he hates his life" - Third Eye Blind, "Slow Motion"

So people kill someone else or themselves because they can't have the life they see on TV or they're put in some hospital where they are kept in order to regain/regenerate their sanity, which is truthfully just one's ability to focus on a delusion for a proposition better known as the American Dream.

Its bullshit. And its sad. I wish I could say what to do about it, but there are so many people who will never have many things and I hate the thought more than anything. More than I even hate the idea that I may be one of them. One of the ones that won't get married or settle into some successful job because something beyond my control dictated the outcome of my life.

Anyways, the ending of The Beach really brings this into perspective with what circumstance De'Caprio is put in. Once more, I highly recommend watching the movie. Its a fascinating film. Well written and immensely realistic as well.