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Foreword:
First - M. Night, the director of this movie, is himself part of the villainy in this movie as a very scientific and objective observer on the hill hired by the Research group of a pharmaceutical!!
Second - the aging effect that happens in this movie is assumed to occur in outer space in the context of worm holes (INTERSTELLAR). A returning traveler will find that earth population has aged by years while he has been gone for a few days!
Third - the author of this review has himself experienced this aging effect since his involuntary 'retirement' several years ago as he sees the world changing around him quite rapidly - kids becoming youth and relatives and popular actors of yesteryear aging and dying!!
That should give you enough hints about the story behind this movie .....one has to listen to almost every word uttered by the actors to understand 'OLD". This is not a typical horror movie...but rather a conspiracy by nature and opportunistic Research Scientists!!
Synopsis:
A group of jolly tourists land on a pretty beach resort and are politely offered an alternate private beach by a 'gentleman' at the resort which they accept without reservation. Two kids of the group, a boy and girl, become friends with a sad looking young boy named Idlib! Idlib gives them a puzzle on a piece of paper in an envelope.
I am skipping over the personal stories of the tourists that the director gradually introduces us to! The following will expose most of the suspense that builds up as the movie progresses!!
At this beach weird things seem to happen. A young lady dies while swimming, cuts and wounds begin to heal in a second, kids begin to grow up at an accelerated pace so their own parents can't recognize them, a tumor inside a lady increases to the size of a human head, the dead woman's body withers away within couple of hours leaving behind just the skeleton! One member of the group calculates that for every half hour they spend on the beach they seem to age by a year! And there is no easy way to escape from the beach!
The two kids are now grown adults, within matter of hours on the beach!! They find a diary and by going thru it they discover that there is a special magnetic effect caused by minerals at the beach location which is why humans age rapidly there. The diary was left by tourists, possibly dead, who were on the beach before the current bunch!! After deciphering the puzzle that Idlib gave them, the two conclude that swimming thru the corals might be their only escape to the normal world. The two survivors therefore decide to take the risk and swim thru the corals.
The observer (M Night) at the top of the hill concludes that the two also have drowned and so packs his equipment and declares the trial complete. You see they do not want any tourist to escape from the beach. At the research lab, the project lead who is the same gentleman who had earlier guided the now dead tourists to the private beach, declares the project successful because they have found a cure for epilepsy - you see, one of the dead is a black lady with epileptic seizures. She did not suffer an epileptic seizure for 8.5 hours on the beach after consuming their new medication served via a drink at the resort; 8.5 hours is 17 years in the normal world! The lab gets the results about the effect of their new epilepsy drug within a day instead of waiting for 17 years.
The beach is the laboratory where the pharmaceutical company tests the lifetime effect of their new drugs on humans within matter of a day!! The dead tourists, following protocol, are declared missing until the two survivors manage to escape thru the corals. They hand the diary they discovered on the beach to a cop. The diary includes a list of 'missing' tourists from an earlier group who are all dead. [We can assume that they also share the horror stories of the recent deaths on the beach with the authorities] . Just as an old couple is being very politely guided to that same private beach for the next trial, the two survivors abort the sinister plan of the research lab thus saving the lives of those two and any future guinea pig tourists!
To establish context, the director shows the two middle aged survivors meet the sad young boy Idlib again; the two were that boy's age just a day earlier!! According to a brochure, the resort discouraged young children's access to the private beach and now we know the reason why! They might not age enough to die and might escape from there!!
The research lab of the corporation has no compunction with the fact that their test subjects -the tourists- will die like mice in a test lab!! This is one of the more intelligent movies from M. Night!
The tourists were lured to the resort by a free nights coupon given to them at the pharmacy. The resort is owned by the company that makes drugs !
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