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Western Carolinian Volume 64 (65) Number 21

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  • 12 WESTERN CAROLINIAN GET A LIFE February 16, 2000 Movie Review Paradise Lost on DiCaprio's 'Beach' by Jenni Bartels Staff Writer "My name is Richard. What else do you need to know?" So begins our disapnointing journey to "The Beach" with our guide, Leonardo DiCaprio. Richard (DiCaprio) sets out on a journey to Thailand, escaping whatever bourgeois American lifestyle he had, wandering the streets of Bangkok and drinking snake's blood. He ends up staying in a shabby hotel where he battles roaches for breathing room. Here he meets a beautiful French girl (fully equipped with a boyfriend) and the appropriately named Daffy (Robert Carlyle of "Trainspotting" and "The Full Monty"), a neurotic weed-smoking bum who incessantly rambles on about a beach of untouched perfection. The plot thickens ... After a night of restless sleep, Richard awakens to find a hand- drawn map, with the location of the mythic beach marked in red, tacked to his door. Daffy, the original proprietor of the map, has Leonard DiCaprio slashed his wrists in a stoned fit of mania, and blood coats the walls of his dumpy sleeping quarters. Determined to avoid the average American tourist adventures, Richard decides to find this forbidden paradise. What follows is a sort of bizarre "Swiss Family Robinson" meets "Fantasy Island" motif; Richard, accompanied by the French couple, Francoise and Etienne, follow the map's trail, part of which is a two kilometer Video Review swim. When they arrive, they find a pothead's field of dreams—protected by some disgruntled pirate types. They finally get to the community of vagabond travelers, all of whom are somewhat bland and faceless, with the exception of Sal, the quasi-leader of this quirky cohabitation. Sal is an enigmatic and powerful woman, dead set on maintaining paradise at all costs, as she later proves. The three newcomers settle in nicely, acquire beautiful tans, smoke a lot of pot and everything is peachy keen. Richard and Francoise develop a romance after a steamy session surrounded by glowing plankton, which comes to an abrupt halt after Richard sleeps with Sal. But paradise can't last long, and after a "Jaws"-esque shark attack and some unwanted visitors (this is to be blamed on Richard: in an error of judgment he left a copy of the map in Bangkok) Richard is cast out of the group and goes a little schizo in his solitude, part of this being the result of watching too many Vietnam flicks. What makes "The Beach" so disappointing is that it COULD have been really great. The book's concept of Richard's gradual loss of a sense of reality in this micro- cosmic paradise is lost on the movie. While Danny Boyle's vision seems to be going in the direction of a "Heart Of Darkness" © The Beach © Directed by Danny Boyle Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio Robert Carlyle • Rated R for Violence, Language & Sex atmosphere, DiCaprio's attempt at intensity comes off as corny, especially as the script drifts into an "Apocalypse Now" tribute. I do have to admit, however, that Leonardo DiCaprio actually does a marginal amount of decent acting in this flick, portraying the difficult-to-like protagonist who sets out on a quest for heaven on earth and ultimately destroys it. His is the only character that is truly revealed at any length; everyone else blends in with the scenery, along with Francoise, the alleged leading lady. The lost-paradise theme is trite, and DiCaprio's relentless narration, while effective in the foreshadowing of impending doom, becomes overbearing and intrusive. If you can distract yourself from the haphazard plot and loose character delineations with the beautiful scenery of Thailand, you'll be fine. While Leo's teenybop- per cultists may be able to S keep "The Beach" afloat at the box office, what with all the shirtless romping and frolicking he does, my advice to the rest of the free world is to wait for the video. A David Lynch Classic? by Annie Sechcrist Staff Writer There are moments in our lives that are of great worth. They are minutes and seconds that define who we are and where it is - that destination we are trying so hard to reach. And while I watched "Blue Velvet," I not only felt these moments slip by, but also the brain cells that recognize them as such die. The film starts out in a picturesque little town. Shots of red flowers, white picket fences, even a little spotted dog give one a false sense of com- "it's a strange world." I can understand this without David Lynch (the director) having shown a grotesque rape scene between Dennis Hopper and Isabella Rossellini. Maybe that was his point, to show something so horrific that one can't help but shudder, to make a movie that people can reflect upon and see the errors in their ways and in society. It is quite obvious that he failed, and that the portrayal was more of a glorification than a degradation. My fellow viewers and I did not come from the movie better people or more informed in the ways of the world, but rather angry and insulted as to why fort in the opening scene. Two minutes into the movie there is a guy walking through a field and the camera zooms to a severed ear on the ground, moldy and infested with bugs. This should have been a huge flashing warning sign. The basic plot is: Jeffery (Kyle MacLachlan) finds the previously discussed ear, and thus sets off a chain of events that carries him into a world of perversion and violence of such magnitude that he is almost swallowed whole. I grasped the point of the movie, that (® Blue Velvet ©^ Directed by David Lynch Starring: Kyle MacLachlan Isabella Rosellini Dennis Hopper Rated R for Violence, Language & Sex this film is being considered art. I turned off the movie three times before I forced myself to sit down and finish it. Not only was the story line slash-your- wrist-with-a-pink- plastic-bic-razor depressing, but it had more holes in it than a golf course. It skips from one scene to another, and leaves the audience behind on the journey. As far as the acting goes, I was very disappointed in the performances, especially with that of one of my favorite actresses, Rossellini, whose character was even harder to believe than the plot itself, if one could imagine that. The only good thing about the whole movie was Dennis Hopper, whose character I ended up hating so much that I will probably never be able to watch him in anything else. For any person who might have the inclination to watch "Blue Velvet," don't. It would be so much easier to save the brain cells and watch something else. Especially when moments of worth are so far and few between. COMING SOON Friday, February 18, through Friday, February 25 / Glory / Runaway Bride / Mystery Men / Purple Rain / Inspector Gadget WCU CAMPUS MOVIES CHANNEL 75
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