The Beach

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Anyone else watching it on Bbc 2?

Bringing up memories of being around 21 and how very young I really was.
Film seems so basic, watching it now

I ache to go back to those days

Oh I absolutely loved the soundtrack. Reminds me of DH and I when we were very young and on our holidays. The Moby track was on a chilled Ibiza album I had, and I can vividly recall walking along the beach front in Mallorca going for dinner in my navy blue one shoulder dress and golden tan. Wonderful times. I have such nostalgia hearing that music.
I haven't seen the film for a while now, but I also remember thinking Leo was miscast. Loved the book.

Yes, we snorkelled in the bay there before heading around the corner and mooring for a short trip on land to visit the beach itself.
Totally agree with the no swim policy, and actually think they should go further and limit numbers landing to visit.
Actually, the number if boats in the bay was excessive too!

At the time, I didn’t go to Thailand, but was in India, Greece, Portugal, Spain, Morroco

Went to that beach at around 38, just before habing my Dd, went back to Ibiza too, but in the North, last bit of recapturing my youth maybe 😆
The beach (is it Maya bay? Will have to look it up) was stunning on approach, but far too touristy

Thailand is starting to take massive steps in trying to preserve the coral. Just this month they have banned all novice divers from taking underwater pictures as too many were banging into the coral when doing so.

Also no swimming or snorkelling if the sea level isn’t at least 2m above the coral. When snorkelling in coral areas you must also now wear a lifejacket at all times and be taught how to use fins before they can snorkel.

Let’s hope people listen to and enforce these rules and allow the coral to replenish.

I've never seen the film, but when I was in my very early 20s my colleague/friend and I used to have a competition to see who could spot the most copies of the book being read on our Tube journeys home each day. We played the same game with Captain Corelli's Mandolin and Memoirs Of A Geisha.

We had this conversation yesterday with much older friends. Life in Britain feels grim and bleak now compared to the nineties when Blair was just in and there was just huge optimism, plenty of jobs and affordable rent. We were just talking about no wonder young people feel depressed now 😕 They can look forward to baked in inflation, climate change, AI stealing jobs and completely unaffordable housing. Our teen was saying how their teacher is always telling them they're all doomed because of climate change.

The nineties everyone was still happy the ozone layer was repairing!

gosh it was such a long time ago, I feel so old!
I remember loving the book, then being disappointed with the film. The people and locations were gorgeous but that was it, really.

Watching this now.

I was a teenager when I first saw it, with no idea I'd be backpacking in Thailand 3 years later (life plan went off piste after A Levels).

I can't believe how ridiculous it is! I liked the Thailand nostalgia, but the people being attacked by sharks is ridiculous. Also all the backpackers seem unpleasant, shallow, and really reactive. Nothing like the lovely, kind, thoughtful people I met travelling! It's like a dark hellish version of my time there. (I'm talking about the stuff before being in the community, the "normal" backpacker stuff.)

Haven't read the book, so I don't know how that compares.

I love the film but love thr book more. I still have a copy and read it every so often for nostalgia. I visited Thailand in the late 1990s and 2000s, it just takes me back. I bet Khao San Road is completely different now!

I also loved those 2 books. 😍

I've never read Memoirs Of A Geisha but Captain Corelli's Mandolin is one of my all-time faves!