Sadly Over-hyped

Really Surprised!

Awesome Movie

This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

The movie is really sweet. Bad reviews are from small minded conservatives because of the nudity, incest, and underage brooke shields.The movie is about 2 young children grow up on an island they were stranded on. They have no one to teach them. So they end up ignorant and immature. They do not understand their feelings or whats happening to their bodies.

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.

I use IMDb almost daily, and slowly I have learned not to discount a movie based on others' ratings solely. This movie is a gem - I missed out on seeing it in the theater as I didn't start high school until 1983.It is a skillfully woven tale of survival, friendship, love and the human condition. For my tastes there are a few scenes that are over the top goody-goody, but given the nature of the film I just let them slide.In typical US moronic fashion, the film was panned by critics and considered to risqué for teens to watch given partial nudity in scenes throughout the movie. I guess its better to read National Geographic in the school library. Sure, I'm male, and Brooke Shields is easy on the eyes, but any mainstream internet selfie is more likely to be considered more perverse than anything in this film.

This film had a pure feel to it with actors that wonderfully played anti social teens; not by choice might I add. The constant struggle to maintain their human selves were slowly destroyed by the crippling instincts of biology. The film makes aware the role that society has on our lives. The separation from society and lack of influence of society is why this film has created purity because without expectations and rules what is left to guide us and control us. The purity is further shown in the characters through the child like behaviour they have which made me think innocence of a child perhaps. Lastly Randal Kleiser has created what I can only call a pure love story.