![]() Being 18 and over privileged as he is (how does he afford this whole thing?) he makes plans to maroon himself and said girlfriend on a island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean so he can "do his thing." Shockingly, the girl backs out at the last minute. A naive 18yr old English boy fantasizes about losing his virginity on a deserted island to his then girlfriend. Allow me to summarize this awful film so that you don't waste an hour of your life. This was by far one of the most depressing documentaries I've watched in recent history. He made a 45 minute film about his experience. He was 18 and wanted to live on a remote desert island and he did. They didn't "have a horrid time." They actually had conflicted feelings about returning to civilization when their time there was coming to a close. ![]() They didn't all of a sudden decide it wasn't going well so they should "get the hell out of there." It sounded like they had set a time to leave before this had all started, perhaps with the government, and that time had come. Yes, he does say how long they stayed on that island and it wasn't days or weeks. Yes, it was hard work keep enough food and water. ![]() Yes, she got sick and they should have called it. The second island went considerably better. They didn't like each other, gotten eaten by mosquitoes, overrun by rats, and she left. I too am wondering if some of you even watched the whole thing before commenting like you did. In short, as the film shows with a surprisingly bittersweet reverence, they experienced the totality of an existence on the fringes, and never felt more alive in doing so. But they also grew weary from the isolation of their surroundings, suffered from malnourishment, and occasionally felt themselves teetering on the edge of insanity. They tested the limits of their endurance, built their own home from the humble resources of their environment, and developed an unwavering bond with the Earth and each other. Intercut with this wealth of survival footage is a touching homecoming of sorts, as Popplewell and Rachel return to the island 12 years later to reflect on their adventure through the benefit of hindsight. The Real Castaway places the viewer in the thick of these struggles, courtesy of the daily video diary they maintained during their time on the island. The couple were met with harsh tropical storms, exposure to dangerous sea life, precarious food shortages, and severe bouts of life-threatening illness. ![]() The reality of their experiences were far removed from the fantasy of Hollywood creation. With starry-eyed enthusiasm, an unbreakable can-do spirit, and the woman of his dreams in tow, Popplewell was about to embark on an adventure he had only witnessed on the silver screen. The setting would be a picturesque patch of lush foliage and piercing blue waters off the coastline of the Federated States of Micronesia. His companion on this adventure would be the long-time object of his affections, Rachel. ![]() "The scenes in this film inspired me to find my own desert island and live there with my own Brooke Shields."Īt the age of 18, after nearly three years of preparation, Popplewell was ready to live his dream. "I was spellbound by the vision of two teenagers growing up and falling in love in a tropical paradise," Popplewell recalls in the documentary. Popplewell was just 15 years of age when he first viewed the film, and it burned in him an obsession. The romanticism of life on a deserted island quickly gives way to a perilous fight for survival in The Real Castaway, a searing account of one couple's battle against the elements on one of the most remote regions on the planet.įor Martin Popplewell, it all started with The Blue Lagoon, the sun-drenched teenage fantasy film from 1980 starring Christopher Atkins and Brooke Shields. ![]()
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