2012 · drama · adventure · romance
Blue Lagoon: The Awakening
Directed by Jake Newsome, Mikael Salomon1h 25m2012
Two high school students become stranded on a tropical island and must rely on each other for survival. They learn more about themselves and each other while falling in love.
Our read: Blue Lagoon: The Awakening (2012) reads as a warm, steady, grounded drama · adventure · romance entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, steady, gentle drama / adventure, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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- gentle
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