Swept Away

"Swept Away" is a film which is filmed in a deserted island in Malta.The movie is a very close remake of a better version of the  1974 movie with the sweet title, "Swept Away by an Unusual Destiny in the Blue Sea of August."  The new 2002  "Swept Away" movie has got an amazing script but got a very bad quality of soundtrack and music. It leaves two unattractive characters, one with a diva attitude and another one moronic, on a desert island where neighter they, nor we, have anyone else to look at or listen to. It's even more harder for them than it's for us, as they seem to have to  go through the motions of a sexual attraction that it looks like to have become an impossibility the moment the roles were casted.

This new "Swept Away" is more of an emotional movie, I'm afraid, and these two castaways fall into a more straight forward form of love. I didn't believe what was going on not even for a moment. They have nothing in common, but the worse thing is that, none of them had any conversation. They don't say one single interesting thing. That they have sex because they are standing alone on a desert island, I cant believe.
Madonna character is that she starts out so with the diva attitude that she can never really be changed. We didn't like her intensely and and trough out the whole movie, and when she gets to the deserted island we wouldn't ever believe she will ever learn her lesson, or turn nice, we believed she is behaving with this man as she does with all men, to flirt to get what she wants. As for the so called sailor, does he really wants her and love her, as he says in that powerful and pitiful speech toward the end of the film? What kind of love is there between each other? They shared some nice and good times together, but their minds or their heart never met.

The ending is really what i was expecting, depending as it does on the sarcastic irony that avoids all of the emotional issues. If I had to go this far with these two different character, and sailed with them, and been with them on a deserted island, and listened to their awkward and boring conversations, I would suggest that they arrive at some kind of conclusion more rewarding than a misunderstanding based upon a miss delivered letter.

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