chiramku: The Blue Lagoon (1980)

The Blue Lagoon (1980) - Randal Kleiser

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In the Victorian period, two young children, Richard and Emmeline Lestrange, and a galley cook are the survivors of a shipwreck in the South Pacific. In the turmoil of the burning ship from which they escaped, they become separated from another lifeboat that the boy's father is in and drift out to sea. After days afloat, they arrive and are stranded on a lush tropical island. The cook, Paddy Button, assumes the responsibility for caring for the small children, teaching them how to behave, how to forage for food, etc. He cautions them about the other side of the island, where he has seen evidence of bloody human sacrifices. He doesn't go into detail but tells them the bogeyman is there, and makes them agree to a "law" that they will never venture in that direction. Another "law" is that they must never eat a certain scarlet berry that Emmeline finds -- they are "never-wake-up" berries. The memory of having had these things in her mouth haunts Emmeline in nightmares for the rest of the film, and because Paddy talks about being "dead'n'buried," she associates the words with the berries and calls them the "dead'n'berries."

An unspecified amount of time passes and Paddy eventually dies in a drunken binge. Richard and Emmeline, now alone and very frightened, cross in the lifeboat to another island and rebuild their home. Together, they have to survive solely on their resourcefulness, and the bounty of their remote paradise. Years pass and they both grow into tall, strong and beautiful teenagers. They live in a self-constructed hut and spend their days together fishing, swimming, and diving for pearls. Eventually, strange emotions start influencing their relationship.

Richard and Emmeline begin to fall in love, although this is emotionally stressful for them because of their general ignorance of human sexuality. Both teens' bodies mature and develop, and they are physically attracted to each other, but do not know how to express it. Emmeline is shown beginning her first menstrual period when she was swimming naked and being very frightened at first. Richard has many questions about what is happening to them, but has no answers; he wants to hold and kiss Emmeline, but when she rejects him, he goes off alone and masturbates. Meanwhile, ever-curious Emmeline has wandered to the forbidden side of the island and discovered an impressive, Kon-Tiki-like idol there. Its shrine is covered with blood. Instinctively recognizing that this is a holy place, she kneels and prays, later telling Richard that she thinks Paddy was mistaken; that the "bogeyman", who bleeds like Jesus, is actually God. Ultimately, they make up after a fight when Emmeline accidentally steps on "a fish that looks like a rock" and barely survives as Richard sets her down at the shrine.

Richard and Emmeline are then seen swimming naked in the coral reef until they swim to shore. Still naked near the shrine and eating some fruit, Richard and Emmeline then discover passionate love and then sexual intercourse. From then on, they make love quite often for several months, hang out naked, and eventually Emmeline gets pregnant. Although the audience is fully aware of Emmeline's condition, Richard and Emmeline themselves have no knowledge of childbirth and don't understand the physical changes to Emmeline's body. One night, Richard discovers Emmeline is missing. Looking for her in the forest, he discovers the origins of the drums they have been hearing from time to time on the forbidden side of the island. They come from a group of natives from another island, who use the shrine to sacrifice conquered enemies. Richard flees as the sacrificee is killed. Richard hears Emmeline cry out, and follows the sound just in time to help her give birth to a baby boy whom they named Paddy.

The young couple spend all their time together with Paddy, teaching him how to swim, throw a spear, and play in the mud. It is during this mud play that we see a ship in the distance, heading for the island. Although Richard was formerly keen to leave and remonstrated with Emmeline for not lighting signal fires when they saw ships, he is now committed to the island as their home and does nothing. Meanwhile, the crew, led by Richard's father Arthur, see the family playing on the shore but as they're completely covered in mud, assume that these are Tahitian natives, not the young couple they've been searching for all these years.

One day, the two young parents and Paddy cross in the lifeboat to the place they lived just after arriving. While Richard looks through their old things and cuts bananas, absent-minded Emmeline doesn't realize her son has not only brought a branch of some berries into the boat, he has tossed one of the oars out. When the tide sweeps the boat out into the lagoon, Richard swims to her, followed closely by a shark. Emmeline throws the other oar at the shark, striking it and giving Richard just enough time to get in the boat. Though not far from shore, they are unable to return -- they cannot jump in the water to retrieve the oars without risking a shark attack. They try to paddle with their hands, but to no avail; the boat is caught in the current and drifts out to sea.

After days of being adrift, Richard and Emmeline wake in the boat to find Paddy eating the berries he picked, a poisonous berry they called the "never wake up berries" as told to them by deceased Paddy. Emmeline tries to get him to spit them out, but he has swallowed them. Hopelessly lost, Richard and Emmeline decide to eat the berries as well, lying down embracing to await death. Only a few hours later, Arthur's ship finds them floating in the boat. Arthur asks, "Are they dead?" and the ship's captain answers, "No, sir. They are asleep." The ending, true to the book, differs considerably from the one in the 1949 film version.

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