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...island, the trio discovers a community of travelers who coexist peacefully with a number of gun-toting drug farmers; paradise bordered by the leafy green of illegal substances. The pristine, natural setting of the beach is a direct contrast to the evil culture of intolerance that develops within the commune of travelers, a community on the fringes of society that enforces their own set of laws...

Author: By Jennifer Liao, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Thai-tanic: Leo Hits The Beach | 2/11/2000 | See Source »

...commune life degenerates into a nightmare reminiscent of William Golding's Lord of the Flies, Richard himself loses his tenuous grip on reality, plunging into a surreal world that embodies what he so desperately sought to escape in the first place. While the cinematic details of the film are breathtaking,and the scenery positively beautiful, serious discontinuities and leaps of logic in the script leave the audience with more questions than answers by the time the final credits roll. Richard's eroding grip on reality is questionable; it is unclear what exactly causes him to go over the edge...

Author: By Jennifer Liao, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Thai-tanic: Leo Hits The Beach | 2/11/2000 | See Source »

...lived in a commune back in western Massachusetts in the 1970s," says Susan Scott, 52, one of the community's founders. "I thought it was a great way to raise children." But in the 1980s, Scott, like so many other flower children, took a right-hand turn. She became a lawyer for the state of California, got married, bought a house, had a child, got divorced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle-Class Communes | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

...publishing an apology to maintain his position at the university. Aimless after his resignation, he decides to visit his daughter Lucy. She lives by herself on an isolated smallholding in the Eastern Cape that she shares with a black farmer, Petrus, in a farmhouse that previously housed a hippie commune to which she belonged. David and Lucys relationship is cordial but distant, and her choice to live off the land seems to be a calculated rejection of his intellectual, urban life. Her decision is informed by a refusal to live her life according to abstract ideas...

Author: By Cerdiwen Dovey, | Title: Booker Winner Visits the Smallholdings | 12/10/1999 | See Source »

...some flower-children synonym. Willis is quite a character, but the audience has no idea why his role exists. Maybe he is supposed to represent the government, which is arbitrary and cruel under the guise of kind Uncle Sam. If we felt that the characters in the commune had any relation to the outside world the explanation might hold, but as it is the short appearance of the landlord makes as much sense as any of the characters' actions...

Author: By Sarah E. Kramer, | Title: Common Problems for an 'Uncommon' Production | 12/10/1999 | See Source »

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