This movie makes you think on several levels. First of all, regardless of your stance on drugs, do you have the right to ingest it where they disallow it? It's fine if you are at home in your country, but when you are in a different country with different laws, then shouldn't you comply with those laws, just as you'd expect a guest in your home to respect your house rules? On a different vein, it also makes you wonder how strong your bonds of friendship with your mates are? Are they strong enough to weather 3 years in prison (and Malaysian prisons are not like what you'd find in an American prison)? Are you willing to waste 3 years of a so far successful life so that a friend does not hang? Another point of concern was the sensitivity of people. Even when told of what her actions might imply to the Malaysian judge and what this means for the prisoner, the reporter refuses and goes on to file a scathing report on the Malaysian justice system, and while she gets the credits, the prisoner gets the punishment. If the death penalty is legal in America where the story's from, then why should the use of capital punishment by another country for crimes it hold responsible for social decay and anarchy be objectionable?
Review of Return to Paradise
