This story is about an island that people believe to be no less than a real paradise.
But what does a paradise cost. Is it more than valuable than your entire life or can
it be more valuable than someone else's life. The movie we're going to talk about asks these
same questions.
In the start of the movie, we see a man named Richard who has come to Thailand to spend
his holidays.
Richard believes that at holidays, people do the same things that they do while at their
homes. They watch TV, play games and talk to each other.
So, he wants to make this trip more adventurous. He wants to spend his time as a local, and
not as a tourist.
At his hotel, Richard takes shower and when he goes to open the door to his hotel room,
the door doesn't open. Then, we see a french lady named Nancy. She helps Richard unlock
his door. Richard seems to have been attracted by the looks of Nancy. But then, we along
with Richard see that Nancy has a boyfriend. Her boyfriend's name is Etienne.
At night, Richard is lying on his bed. Then the man next door to his room tears the window
cloth and asks Richard for a cigarette. Richard angrily answers that he has nothing to smoke.
Them that man tells him that he happens to have something that Richard might like.
He hands him a cigarette and tells him about a beach. He tells Richard that there is a
beach in a secret island, that is so perfect, and is a paradise that no one knows about.
He tells Richard that no one could ever go there. But, a few years back, some people
went there and he was one of those people, who went to that secret island. He was the
only one who returned but the others didn't leave and are still on that island. Richard
doesn't believe him at all. He thinks the guy is a mad man. And with how the guy looked
and talked, no one would take him seriously to be honest.
Next day, Richard comes back to his room and finds a letter. And when he opens that letter,
he finds a map to an island in Thailand. Richard quickly understand that this was left by the
same guy who told him about the island last night. The map in that letter lead to the
secret island.
Richard goes to that man's room but finds his dead body instead. Richard is taken to
the police station for questioning. but, the police let him go after he signs a paper which
was written in Thai. Richard doesn't understand what's written in that paper, but he signs
it anyway to get out of there.
Going back to the hotel, Richard takes the map to the french couple next door. He tells
them about the secret island and wants them to join him in this adventure. Nancy and Etienne
both agree to join Richard.
They make all the arrangement for the trip. And after travelling for more than 24 hours,
they reach a beach. From this beach, they have to take a boat in order to reach the
island on the map.
Richard goes to his room but he has lost the keys to it. Richard is angry at himself and
the rain is also pouring hard.
Richard finds two men who are living across of Richard's room. They invite Richard to
drink with them and they start talking to each other. One of those men tell Richard
about a secret island in Thailand. He tells Richard that the island is so beautiful that
if he had a map to that place, he wouldn't tell anyone about it, to keep the place hidden
from everyone.
Richard understands that it is the same island where he is going to.
Next morning, Richard draws a copy of that map. And before leaving that place, Richard
leaves the copy of that map under the door of the two men he met last night.
After taking the boat, Richard and his friends reach an island, but its not the island which
has the secret beach. They spend the night on that island. And next day, they decide
that they'll swim to that island which is around a half a mile away.
The three of them start swimming towards the island and after a while, they finally reach
the island with the secret beach.
Upon reaching that island, they find that there is a huge field of weed. They all start
smiling after finding that huge supply of weed which would be expensive to buy. After
wandering for a while, Richard finds a monkey and when he looks down, he finds a man who
is sleeping with a gun in his hands.
The monkey alerts the man about Richard. And the man quickly gets up. Richard and his friends
hide in the weed field. More and more armed men come out. They are the ones who have been
cultivating weed in that place. They all start searching for Richard and his friends.
They start crawling their way out of there and soon they reach a dead end. They reach
a huge waterfall and if they jump from it, they might end up killing themselves. They
don't know what to do. Etienne starts blaming Richard and they both get into an argument.
But Nancy out of nowhere jumps from the waterfall. After seeing Nancy survive the jump, Richard
and Etienne soon follow Nancy, and jump. They're all happy that they didn't die. Just then,
a man starts clapping and tells them that it took him a long time before he made that
jump himself.
He takes them to a place, which they had built themselves to live forever. They were once
tourists, but they had decided to spend the rest of their lives on that island. It's a
very beautiful place, despite of the lack of technology and outside world connection.
They don't have mobile phones, or TV. They don't go to work to earn money. They were
just simply living there like a group of tribe people.
Richard and his friends are taken to the leader of the community. Her name is Sal, and she
asks them how they got the map to that island. Richard tells her about the mad guy who had
left him the map.
Sal then reveals that the name of that mad man was Daffy. He was the one who discovered
this island but later got depressed and left it.
She asks them if they have told anyone else about this island. They all answer that they
have told no one about this island. But Richard is clearly lying as he had left a copy of
that map to the other two guys. Sal, however, is satisfied with their answer and then destroys
the map as they don't want anyone else from the outside world coming into the island.
Next day, they go to the beach. The beach is surrounded by huge rocks. It has crystal
clear water. Richard is in awe of this beach and cannot believe such a beautiful place
exists in the world.
Now, they have to learn to live the old way. They learn fishing with a spear, and play
different games to pass the time. They have all kind of freedom here. Whenever, they need
something, they take the weed that they have cultivated themselves, take it to the city,
sell them and buy whatever they need.
Sal also tells them that the locals around that island had come to them. But they let
them live here in exchange that they wouldn't bring any more people. The locals didn't come
to their place, and they weren't allowed to go to where the locals were.
After spending few days at the island, Richard starts liking Nancy. And one night, Nancy
and Richard are taking a walk. Nancy tells Richard that she too has started liking him.
Nancy and Richard kiss each other.
Next Day, Etienne confronts Richard and tells him that everyone knows what's going between
him and Nancy. Etienne gets in an argument with Richard and he breaks up with Nancy.
After the breakup with Etienne, Nancy gets together with Richard. That day, it is raining
hard and catching a fish on a rainy day is hard. No one wants to go in the water to catch
fish, but Richard goes in alone. After a while, Richard comes out of the water, and sees that
everyone is waving at him. He doesn't understand the reason behind this. But soon, he finds
out that a shark is coming towards him.
Richard believes that this is the end for his life. But he quickly comes to his senses,
and tells himself that he cannot die here. He kills the shark with the knife that he
had in his hands.
Richard barely manages to save his life. That night, everyone starts complimenting Richard
for his bravery. Richard has grown to be a popular figure in the island and he is very
happy with the attention he was getting.
Few days later, the group leader informs everyone that the rice they had was contaminated by
fungus. So, they have to make a trip to the city to bring in the necessary items for their
survival in the island.
Sal wants Richard to come with her. Now, everyone start handing out the list of necessary items
they want Richard to bring back from the city.
After reaching the city, Richard realizes that the island was a pure paradise compared
to the life in city. The city was filled with loud noises, people fighting, just chaos everywhere.
Richard wants to leave as soon as possible. It is also then that Richard realizes that
no matter what the island should be saved from the outside world. If everyone finds
out about the island, it will also turn out like the chaotic city.
At night, Richard and Sal are at a bar.
Richard finds the two men to whom he had left a copy of the map to the island. The two men
also have few other friends with them. They thank Richard for giving out the map to that
place and tell him that they too will come to the island very soon.
Richard tells them that he was joking with him and the map was fake. But they don't believe
Richard at all. Sal finds out that Richard had told other people about the island. Sal
then tells Richard that she will not tell anyone on the island about this secret. But
Richard has to do one thing. He has to sleep with Sal. That night, Richard sleeps with
Sal to keep his secret.
And next day, they go back to the island, and everything is back to normal again.
One day, while fishing, two of their men are bitten by a shark. One of them is seriously
injured and the other one even loses his life. The condition of the injured man is so bad
that he cannot travel to the city to get treatment. And Sal doesn't allow to bring doctor into
the island, as she wants to keep this island a secret from everyone. She fears bringing
a doctor will result in more people finding out about the place.
That man screams in pain for two days. Everyone can hear his scream and they all are disheartened
by the situation. They all decide that they will take the man in the jungle and leave
him there.
Etienne doesn't agree with this but no one listens to him. Etienne decides to stay back
with the injured man.
After that, life is back to normal in the island as if nothing had happened. They all
start to enjoy life once again.
Then one day, Richard is woken up by Sal. She takes him somewhere and shows him that
the people he had given the map to, had reached the other island. They even have the map that
Richard had drawn. Sal knew that Richard had told them about the island, but Richard hadn't
told her anything about the map.
Sal gets angry at him and tells him to stay there. Sal wants Richard to stay there until
his friends get to the island and after that, Richard will have to take the map from them
and tell them to return back.
Richard stays there that night. And Nancy comes to him and slaps him. Sal had told everyone
about the map. Sal had also told everyone that she and Richard had slept together while
they were in the city.
Nancy is mad at Richard and she breaks up with him. Richard is now stuck there. He cannot
go back to his people and he has to stay there waiting for the people to come from the other
island. So that he can take the map from them and tell them to return back.
Richard has nothing to eat. He sees that the people are still in that island and aren't
coming towards him. He starts eating bugs to satisfy his hunger. Slowly, Richard starts
hallucinating. He starts seeing things that are out of his reality. He is slowly getting
mad.
One day, Richard sees that his friends are planning to move to this island. They reach
the secret island and find the weeds. They are all happy just like how Richard, Nancy
and Etienne were when they first arrived here. But, the guards soon find them and they are
all killed by the guards.
Richard sees all of this and before he could leave, one of the guards sees Richard and
starts running towards him. But Richard gets lucky as the guard's leg is caught in a trap.
Richard jumps from the waterfall and goes back to his people. He sees that everyone
is dancing and having a fun night. He doesn't go back to them. But instead, he goes to where
Etienne and Nancy are.
Etienne is still taking care of that injured man, who is pretty soon going to die. Richard
tells them that they have to leave this place as soon as possible. He tells him about the
people who were killed by the guards.
Nancy and Etienne leave from there. Richard sees that the injured man isn't going to live
for more. So, he closes his mouth to kill him. Richard doesn't want to do it but he
still does it because he knows that he isn't going to live for long with his injury.
Before Richard could leave, he gets attacked from the behind. When he wakes up, he finds
out that the leader of the guards had taken everyone under his control. He tells Sal that
he had warned them to not bring anyone from the outside world. He also shows her the map
that Richard had drawn.
The guard leader now wants everyone to leave that place. But Sal refuses to leave the island
and tells him that the island belongs to them as well.
Richard tries to tell everyone that they should leave the island But Sal blames Richard for
making the copy of the map and giving it to his friends.
After finding out that Richard had drawn the map, the guard leader hands Sal a gun which
has only one bullet inside.
He tells Sal that if she kills Richard, he will let them live on the island. Richard
tells Sal not to kill him But Sal is adamant on staying on the island. So, she pulls the
trigger but fortunately, it is an empty chamber with no bullet and Richard gets to live.
Now everyone starts to distrust Sal. They believe that she will do anything to stay
on that island. So, everyone leaves the island return back to their normal life.
It has been one year since then, Richard is back to his normal dull life. But the freedom
he felt on that island has still not left him. He still remembers the life he had on
that island. It was where he truly was living his best life.
Then, Richard gets a mail from Nancy. Richard opens it and finds that Nancy had sent him
a picture of when they were on the island. Looking at the picture, Richard cant help
but smile, and with him smiling at the picture, the movie ends.
So, would you guys stay on that island and leave everything in your life behind. I, personally
wouldn't. Internet totally controls me. So, I wouldn't go to that island unless it has
internet and no guards with guns.
But please tell me if you would risk your life to live on that island.
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