Return To The Blue Lagoon

As young Lilli and Richard are stranded on an untamed island, they get the chance to grow up in a society-free bubble allowing them to love and marry each other until the fantasy is broken by the temptation of adultery and the reverse haul to civilization.’ Set in the late 19th Century, Sarah Hargrave was on a trip to the fated location with her child Lilli who was the daughter of a deceased evangelist. While trying to locate a ship that was reported to be lost, they came across a small boat on the stem of the ship which had a couple along with their 2-year-old child on it. Young Richard was found alive and was rescued.

While trying to nurse the child back to health Sarah noticed the break out of Cholera on the vessel. Unfortunately along with many other people, Richard was a victim too but the young woman took him into a rowboat and set out to evade the disease. After countless days at sea, they landed on a lone fertile island.

For the following eight years, Sarah educated Lilli and Richard on survival, Christianity, sexuality, and faith. Living off saltwater fish raw island fruits coconuts, papayas, and mangoes.

Sharing the Victorian pride of Sarah, Sarah answers Lilli and Richard’s questions concerning genitals, female menstruation, and childbirth with the utmost devotion and care. She has nurtured their spiritual growth, aids the children in Bible literacy, and teaches them hymns.

However, the children have to fend for themselves after the death of their caring mother due to severe pneumonia. Post her demise, Sarah composed a prayer and a heartwarming eulogy and asked the children to respect the faith and the lessons from the school and believe that one day they would be saved and return to the spiritual sanctity of San Francisco.

But Lilli and Richard do start their early adolescence alone, Richard gets startled and ashamed when he starts experiencing wet dreams and Lilli starts menstruating and having to shift her cot in the hut. Although rather understated their bodily explorations might irk followers of such views as the cut-off point, in film such facets tend to overdo them.

As events unfold Lili and Richard get into a fight, appearing uninhibited this time with Lili and her wanderers, Richard decides to leave and makes his way to the off-limit zones of the island where he stumbles onto a tribal area of islands where he can escape by concealing his body with mud.

On their way back to the hut, Lilli and Richard affirm to each other that they will rage at one another one last time and for the first time, engage in a heated kiss, ” I think we should be husband and wife,” Richard admits, “I feel like I should cry.”

When they reach Sarah’s tomb, they let out promises of love to one another while slipping on each other’s wedding rings made out of bamboo. Their happiness was quite short-lived as they were confronted with the heartless aspects of civilization after a ship came to their island.

Onboard was a fully spoiled, blue-dressed, blonde woman named Silvia, who set her sights on Richard hoping for him to betray Lilli and a professor, Richard’s friend. Richard wants to be naked when he gets shown around and when Lilli questions him, he replies Seeking devotion means ignoring my desires. Richard instinctively tackles Silvia away making it clear to her that following one’s heart doesn’t mean cheating on his wife. Unbeknownst to him, Lilli was also captivated by him as she sat outside and got shown in the rain by one of Richards’s friends. After rejecting the crew’s offer of sailing to San Francisco together, Lilli set the record straight stating, “There is no truth,” and people “don’t use guns,” in the place she wanted to be in.

DISNEY’S RETURN TO THE BLUE LAGOON suggests that Lilli and Richard are no different than normal teenagers who happen to live on an island free from any form of societal vice. Then looking at it from the Christian perspective, it becomes problematic as much as Christianity does emphasize the fact that we are made in the image of God, it entirely dismisses the fact that man is flawed and requires Christ to redeem them from their wrongdoings thoughts.

From a scriptural standpoint, once the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil was consumed by Adam and Eve, God’s initial paradise and Created perfection was also gone. Therefore, living on a distant island will not help Lilli and Richard stay on target. We will be in God’s presence in heaven if we do not sin in this world.

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