From the title you don’t know exactly where the movie is coming from or going to. The initial allure of this movie is the expected setting of a good scenery island as advertised It does deliver on that front but the overall style of the movie was somewhat unexpected and movie explored intertwining friendships quite extensively as well as head on couples issues and the first front on everything was the voice, mirror and feedback from friends. Despite the settings, this movie is very dialogue oriented and the dialogue is somewhat confrontational and snappy. The movie actually does go heavier into relationship issues than it initially presents. It is interesting that the overall tone is that there is fairly serious like dialogue with the humor coming in as a secondary add in and this style seems to work in this movie. The actual movements within scenes were also like this, where there were contradictory elements introduced evidenced on the physical plane. There was an atmospheric shark attack scene that had just a bit of a reminding of the film Open Water where the tour guides were not totally privy as they should have in the moment. Later scenes show that the couples, despite some achieved maturity aren’t all the way past the wild party culture which is more linked with youthful exuberance maybe gone wrong a bit and of course that is a cliché as well to a degree. The film doesn’t offer lasting deep spiritual solutions as the way to go, but there are kernels of wisdom that can also be extracted from some of the situations in terms of dealing with balancing and skewed expectations. This film does work at the level of good scenery, being entertaining, having the body beautiful with some realistic in range sporty adventure challenges, and in showing how people even with some success are still moving and still have to deal with new and varied issues as they go along despite reaching some milestones. Stay for a scene after the credits, a good dig on the financial goings on.
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