As a professional film critic, I’m often asked what the best movie of all time is. My standard answer: “I hope I haven’t seen it yet because that would make my job depressing”. The film I’ve chosen to show is The Blue Lagoon, Randal Kleiser’s follow-up to his smash hit, Grease. I have seen this more times than I can count (though most of those times I was still in high school). It is not the most sophisticated, intellectually challenging or breathtakingly made film, though the music and cinematography are certainly swoon-worthy. What makes me come back to it isn’t only its romantic vision of an earthly paradise — with its sandy beaches and palm-tree silhouettes against the sunset — but how it is also a metaphorical paradise, where young people learn about and experience love without any rules or restrictions from any larger society. It is naïve and pure by design — a rarity in cinema.