The Beach

This week I watched a film Danny Boyle directed called The Beach...
Here's the link to the IMDB synopsis because it's pretty hard to explain...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0163978/synopsis

but I'll try anyway.

So there's this twenty-something year old guy called Richard (Leonardo DiCaprio) who goes on vacation to Thailand. He's looking for more than just the typical tourist experience, and checks into a scummy hotel where he meets Daffy. He tells Richard about an island paradise that was thought to be only a legend, and gives him a map to it. Shortly after Richard finds Daffy dead after commiting suicide.
Richard and the young french couple from the room next to him mission it to the island and after experiencing a few difficulties along the way they make it there eventually.
At first the island seems like a total paradise, everything that they expected and more. It's not long before everything starts to go down hill though. Two of the Swedish men on the island are attacked by a large shark. One of them dies and the other one is severely injured, but the leader of the island, Sal, won't allow a doctor to come see him because the island must be kept a secret. As he gets worse the community become annoyed with his cries of agony and take him out to the jungle to die.
Richard retreats to the forest by himself where he goes temporarily insane, sometimes believing that he is in a video game.
Some surfers that Richard gave a copy of the map to arrive at the island and are killed by marijuana farmers that also live there. The place is definately no longer a paradise so Richard, the french couple and the rest of the community leave the island leaving only Sal behind.

Definately a movie you have to watch if you haven't. It was slightly disturbing in some parts and I'm not gonna lie, had a few nightmares about it, but it's still a fantastic film.