entertain in part and but a a whole it pure manure . this movie be generally about the sociopath richard ( dicaprio ) and in his elitist pursuit of pleasure and sex and holiday paradise . he go to great length in pursue this and use lie and deceit and violence to get what he want . he get to know about a secluded thai beach and and make friend with a french guy and his girlfriend in order to steal the girlfriend from the guy . the trio find their paradise on an island that part occupy by some arm and crazy thai marijuana farmer and and the other part while a crazy hippie collective . the hippy be drive by a collective fear of get their tropical paradise discover and so they use fascistic method when silence member of the society to not reveal the secret of the whereabouts of their beautiful beach or self make tropical paradise community . the hippie commune and be still a slave to consumerism society and and not the alternative society that it be set out to be . just like richard and the member of the community go to great length in defend their right to fun and pleasure and take a blind fold to the one that get hurt and kill in their pursuit . the goal of the commune be elitist and fascist and the mean of use violence be motivate by keep out other tourist and people the commune doesn not want out of this beach resort . richard make everything he can to do the same thing . he be everything that go bad with the commune inpersonated . he not able to feel any empathy or understand for anyone and the only time he openly question the fascism of the commune be when his own life be on the line in order to save it . in other case he walk away and and still feel good be in paradise . well the movie mean wasn not suppose to be about this . the director somehow think that we should see any kind of sympathy and actually care about what happen to richard and and forgive him for his action and instead he be the only guy in this movie that be actually disgustingly inhumane . maybe he think we should have be blaze by the star quality of di caprio . but truthfully and he be nothing more than a stupid parody of idiotic traveller who think they can behave anyhow they like in any foreign exotic location . the unintentional satire be exaggerate this and make him a total psychopath . he be not just a someone who quietly take order and the nazi like leader of the commune while sal be his peer . the same person and but with power . dicaprios character be somebody you would want the director to have shoot off early in the movie . even if it be the meaning of the director to show dicaprio a a total a hole and this a hole definitely isn not good company for the two hour . this be not the only bad thing about the movie . it slow scene and extremely bad computer animation and the horribly outdated brit pop soundtrack make it an equally painful experience to watch . the movie end be nothing but richard be nostalgic about his beach adventure in his normal life set and not have learn any lesson or gain any emotional strength . the viewer be also encourage to join his nostalgia for his blood stain paradise . why go to such great length anyway to get away from the mass tourist . go to the philipines or any place that isn not as crowd a thailand . stupid movie .