There is so much beauty in this supposedly naive and simple story that is beyond description. Or you can see it as another version of the Garden of Eden from the Bible. I think this is the simplest way to talk about our world: two children living outside it. This is the second time I have seen human courtship documented so beautifully - or as an old saying says: authorities and powers of this world that never let us live and love in life as we should have...

It may be old, but due to its nature it hasn't aged, The Blue Lagoon is set in the Victorian era, but you wouldn't know it for most of the film's duration.A boy and a girl get stranded on a tropical island where they spend many years, from childhood, through their teenage years and into young adulthood, eventually producing a child that neither knew they were going to have until it popped out. The Blue Lagoon is one of those very rare films that you could easily describe as being practically perfect, the way it handled the couples development as they both grew up was brilliant..., naturally Richard and Emmeline, played by a very young Brooke Shields and Christopher Atkins, begin to experience natural urges, only they don't know what they are and don't understand what's happening to them, they begin experimenting with sexual activity, and as I mentioned earlier, they eventually have a child together.The way The Blue Lagoon handles the sexual nature of the film is subtle and isn't overly exploited like a modern film would, it's raw and it's realistic. I like how the film isn't turned into a fight for survival, there are plenty of provisions and natural resources to keep the couple going indefinitely, therefore instead of being about survival, it's about development and growing up, showing how two youngsters would realistically live in this situation. For his brief stint in the film at the beginning, the ships chef Paddy, who also gets stranded provides some comic relief and the character is superbly acted by the late Leo McKern, but the film isn't about Paddy and he is swiftly killed off before the film truly gets going. For it's day (1980), the beautiful scenery and vivid bright pictures and framing are excellent, I was really impressed how production and filming took place on location in Fiji, rather than an artificial set like most of the films of the era were, this made the whole feel of the film so much better and added something special to the overall finished product.The Blue Lagoon was special then, and even more special now, a lovely picture that deserves to be watched and enjoyed, it may indeed contain its fair share of faults, but the film is so good these faults can easily be overlooked and ignored.

It's late 19th century. Young Richard Lestrange, his widowed father and orphaned cousin Emmeline Lestrange are on a clipper to San Francisco. Fire engulfs the ship and the cook Paddy Button (Leo McKern) takes the kids into a lifeboat. They get separated from the other lifeboat by the fog and land on a tropic island in the Pacific. They find skulls, signs of natives, and a cast of rum. Paddy drowns after a drunken binge. Richard (Christopher Atkins) and Emmeline (Brooke Shields) move to an isolated beach building a new home.This is hormone cinema wrapped in a Swiss Family Robinson adventure. The hormone cinema is cringe-worthy. This is not a subtle movie. It is deliberately pushing out the young flesh for public consumption. However as a young boy, this was a guilty pleasure. I can't complain about the sincerity of the young actors. This is generally a bad movie but everybody can like a few of those.

I have been exploring 90s/80s movies these past weeks and I gotta admit this one is one of the best films I have seen. It was a bit corny yes and weird yes but it seems so believable you know like you will wonder what if this actually happened? I love Brooke Shields I haven't even hit the play button yet but the video's thumbnail made me fall in love with her already. She's so beautiful that I'm not gonna ask myself if she was the dream girl back to her days because the answer is right before my eyes. I've seen some articles saying Christoper Atkins was the teen heartthrob and I don't doubt it, he looks so good in this film alongside with Brooke Shields that's the reason why this film is perfect. Their role suits them I don't even know they just look cute together. I've seen the remakes and I didn't bother finishing the whole film especially the one that was released in 2012 that film is absolutely cliché and I just could predict what will happen without seeing the ending. I recommend this film, it's so good and worth watching.