The thriller of director Ron Howard has a tragic fate on a Galápagos Island.
What the dream of your own garden of Eden seems like in Ron Howard's (71) new film bit by bit as hell on earth. The Survival thriller “Eden” tells the true story of a group of dropouts who strives for their personal happiness on a remote Pacific island away from civilization – and finds the exact opposite.
Three are at least one too much – that's what it's about
In the early 1930s, between the two world wars, dropouts on the remote Galápagos Island of Floreana go to lead a life away from civilization. The group is led by Dr. Friedrich Ritter (Jew Law), a doctor and philosopher, and his partner Dore Strauch (Vanessa Kirby) affected to MS. However, the self -chosen loneliness does not last for a long time: soon they will have other roommates in the form of the war veteran Heinz Wittmer (Daniel Brühl) and his wife (Sydney Sweeney).
However, the situation on the island only becomes tongue when the extravagant baronin Eloise Wehrborn de Wagner-Bosquet (Ana de Armas) arrives with her lovers. Their arrival and, above all, their high -aligned goals disturb the already fragile balance of the small community. The dropouts who originally searched for a simple, natural life will soon be found in a network of conflicts, jealousy and intrigue.
“The Beach” meets “Lord of the Flies”
With his manageable, but extremely well -known cast around Law, Brühl, Sweeney and De Armas, Ron Howard delivers an interesting character study. The figures are in a constant interaction between the extreme situation and the dream set of civilization and (unwanted) with each other. A little as if the two fictional works “The Beach” and “Lord of the Flies” had an illegitimate film baby.
“Eden” is based on true events and created a mystery that could not be fully informed almost 100 years later and consequently invites Google research. Interested parties should take their time until after the go to the cinema so as not to spoil themselves. Therefore, only as much at this point: The template for the film, which became known as the “Galápagos affair”, was prepared to prove that Darwin's principle “Survival of the Fittest” must also be applied to humanity.