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A few thoughts after watching "The Blue Lagoon: The Awakening" (2011) (IMDb)

Emmaline 'Emma' Robinson and Dean McMullen were stranded on the desert island for over three months.

  • where is Emma's armpit and leg hair?

I'm guessing she might have had a manicure set in her bag, which the teens would have used to cut their nails. But what about:

  • shampoo & hair washing?
  • Emma's period? Surely she wouldn't have had 3 months worth of sanitary towels in her bag.
  • we never see their toilet corner
  • living on a diet of fruit and perhaps some fish (I don't recall seeing any being roasted over the fire) only, wouldn't they have dramatically lost weight?
  • Dean's hair doesn't get any longer over the three months on the island
  • Emma magically doesn't get pregnant despite them having had sex multiple times, without protection or pulling out (excuse the explicit term)!

What kind of message does that send? Unless either partner is infertile, or she's never had her period yet, in all logic after three months she would have fallen pregnant.

I get it that the storytellers went for a more fictional approach over a realistic portrayal of life on a desert island. But still... I think the romance would have been that much stronger, and believable, had we seen how difficult their experience was and how much they had to rely on each other to truly survive it all.

"Castaway" (1986) (IMDb), and "Cast Away" (2000) (IMDb) minus the romance, are some better examples of what survival when stranded on a tropical island might look like.

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