Sofia’s review published on Letterboxd:
Insanity, delirium, fleeting flights of ecstasy that dissolve into madness, desires that divide and ostracise. The Beach is the tale of those wishing to flee civilisation, to rebuild their own, to live solely for pleasure. But these ideals of hedonism and utility have only created a world in which suffering is promptly kept under the shadows— for to be in pain is to be a threat, to ‘spoil the atmosphere.’ Their world is, after all, delusory, utopian, a naïve fantasy of one indifferent to suffering. But to suffer is intrinsic to existence, and attempting to stifle and suffocate any sign of it only unravels the tragic distortion of civilisation these travellers have helped create. And when one speaks out, he, too, is ostracised, banished. And to live on the peripheries of this pleasure-pursuing, hedonistic utopia, to acknowledge that he was once a part of it, insanity, it would seem, becomes the natural way out.