It is a beach resort for people who don't like beach resorts. But that beach in Danny Boyle's 'The Beach', based on the classic novel by Alex Garland, is also a secret dwelling. The foreign inhabitants of that island beach religiously guard this exclusive paradise on earth for them from attracting other similar travelers as themselves to the beach. The fact that it is some sort of an urban legend amongst travelers to South-East Asia that such a beach exists somewhere does not help. The migrant community on the island beach has steadily increased with a traveler or a group of travelers, every now and then, stumbling upon the secretive abode. This steady increase in the migrant population has soured relations between the migrant group and the local community on the island, who are not happy with the ever increasing migrant population and have warned them with deportation of the whole group if the arrival of newcomers did not cease.
The concerns of the already existing migrant community on the beach towards any more newcomers is on two counts. First, because of the objections raised by the local community and the threat of deportation. And second, because for the beach to remain that 'paradise on earth' for them, it has to be small, it has to be secret, it has to have a limit on the number of people coming in; otherwise this beach will lose all meaning for them; it will become like other beach resorts, the very same beach resorts these people had run away from in the first place to find this 'paradise on earth'.
But, and this is the most important point, imagine that the first concern of the existing migrant community didn't exist, that the local community had no objection to newcomers coming on to the island beach. Suppose, even, that the local community in fact encouraged newcomers onto their island beach. The second concern, though, would still remain. Oh yes it would still remain.
