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I do not think this book is intended to make you think. It is intended to excite and scare you. At best it could be said to be noisy and colorful. Hernández, Norma (December 2, 2020). "Apple TV+ will shoot its new series "The Mosquito Coast" in the Riviera Nayarit". Riviera Nayarit Blog. Archived from the original on December 2, 2020 . Retrieved February 18, 2021. a b D'Alessandro, Anthony (June 2, 2021). " 'The Mosquito Coast' Lands Second Season On Apple TV+". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on June 2, 2021 . Retrieved June 2, 2021.

The Mosquito Coast” comes together as the product of several puzzling choices, beginning with the decision to again adapt Paul Theroux’s 1981 book, and then to situate it in a contemporary setting. The result is a creepier-than-perhaps-even-intended series, which most charitably plays a poor man’s “Breaking Bad: Family Edition.” Allie and family are taken to an estate run by a man named Enrique. Allie introduces himself as David Richardson and has false identities for all his family members. They settle down and rest for the night. Dina persists in pressing Allie to reveal the truth behind why the family is constantly on the run. Enrique visits the recovering Chuy and the pair dialogue about what to do with the Fox family. It emerges the family are being used for an agenda, and Margot suspects this, prompting Allie to decide they need to leave the estate at the earliest opportunity. He asks Dina to pen a letter to Chuy for help, knowing she has a connection with him. Charlie goes out target hunting with Hugo, a boy from the estate. Aunt Lucrecia arrives at the estate and reveals she wants to trade Allie and the family to free someone of importance to her who is imprisoned in America. As the family is taken captive, Chuy videocalls Lucrecia and holds Hugo at gunpoint, asking for the family to be released. The guards stand off and the family walk out of the estate with Margot deflating the tires of all their vehicles before they leave in a car. They meet Charlie and Chuy in the desert and they drive away to a bus stop where Chuy confronts Allie about his plans for the family before driving away in the car and leaving the Foxes at a bus stop. The primary connection of note here is the involvement of actor-producer Justin Theroux (“The Leftovers”), who is Paul Theroux’s nephew, and assumes the central role of Allie Fox, the “radical idealist” who chooses to live off the grid with his wife and kids. Yet writer-producer Neil Cross ( “Luther”) has embellished that with even more troubling traits, as the family winds up fleeing to Mexico, engaging in a series of dangerous encounters and questionable choices that periodically make them look like stupid Americans as well as ugly ones. Theroux, Louis (February 1, 2021). "Grounded with Louis Theroux - 20. Justin Theroux". BBC Sounds. Archived from the original on February 16, 2021 . Retrieved February 18, 2021. Yes and no. During the Trump years, people were talking about wanting to move to Canada, to New Zealand. Rightwing nativism has long been part of the American scene, and still is, fueled by the depiction of immigrant groups as subversive, or disloyal, or just strange. Japanese exports and buy-outs have been replaced by Chinese ones. There are people now questioning the grand American experiment. People who are anti-government. And in the end, it's a simple and accessible tale. A man decides to leave, takes his family, they set up, and then it goes wrong. It's a story about failure and about survival. Allie is obnoxious, yet weirdly likable. A maddening fantasist, yet never a liar. A character that keeps you on your toes.Justin Theroux as Allie Fox, an idealistic family man and inventor growing increasingly disillusioned with commercialization in the United States. Fat fools will be fighting skinny criminals," he said. "You'll hate one and be scared of the other. It'll be national brain damage. Who's left to trust?" Margot, Dina, and Charlie believe what Allie tells them in large part because Allie has constructed a world in which the most urgently necessary information comes from Allie. He’s the father, God, the church, and the media rolled into one, demanding (and receiving) trust and adoration even as he rails against the decadence and corruption of post-industrial American serfdom and impulsively quits his job at a GMO-like corporate farm because his manager won’t spend a lot of money licensing the ice-manufacturing machine that he’s created. (How unintentionally weird it is to watch this rabidly anti-capitalist show on a streaming platform owned by Apple, which has repeatedly been accused of exploitative labor practices in its factories.) Ebert, Roger (December 19, 1986). " The Mosquito Coast review". Chicago Sun-Times. Archived from the original on July 8, 2010 . Retrieved August 31, 2020. Finished last night in the midst of trauma and survival, as most readers probably assumed it would. No spoilers from me! So ... what's this book about? Is it all a political allegory? Could be ... One thing it's about for sure is Paul Theroux's ongoing excellence at taking us to the Honduran bush. Beautiful and threatening at the same time. How "believable" is the story? Well ... maybe not that much, but it was a tense and worthwhile ride regardless. My own reaction at the end was curious. Even though my own father story was pretty dreadful, and even though I was SO angry and fed up with Allie a number of times and wanted him to STFU!, I felt some sympathy for him at the end - a tortured soul. Other reviewers noted the humor in the book, but for me the awfulness of Allie over-rode any lightness the author put in. Too close to home for me I guess. More notes ...

Even if there hadn't been this constant over description of small scenes, it was just not the story for me. It didn't work at all. I could never figure out the father character - if he was a jokester or was I supposed to think he was a villain? Maybe I just didn't like the premise. I've always disliked that whole America's-a-capitalist-shithole-place-to-live story line for a book or movie. The whole thing was very masculine, as well. Tinkering, inventing, engines, weird father-son conversations that, as a woman, I couldn't relate to at all. The wife character was useless - at least up to this halfway point that I read. The film contains the last feature film role of Butterfly McQueen, who had a prominent role in Gone with the Wind. She plays a lapsed churchgoer, and in real life was a vocal atheist. [5] Reception [ edit ]

The family begins traveling downriver again, with Allie drifting in and out of consciousness. Allie asks his wife if they are going upstream. She lies to him for the first time. Charlie's narration reports the death of Allie, but gives hope that the rest of the family can live their lives freely from now on. I was wholly taken with this book. Theroux weaves a gripping and harrowing tale that is at once a coming of age story, an adventure piece, and a possibly unmatched character study in the brilliant and paranoid Allie Fox. Told through the maturing eyes of his teenage son, the reader is made to feel like a dependent, ever anxious to anticipate shame or endorsement. The author's writing style brings to life both a unique literary figure and the perfect environment for his tale to thrive. Theroux has criticized celebrity activists like Bono, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie as "mythomaniacs, people who wish to convince the world of their worth." [28] He has said that "the impression that Africa is fatally troubled and can be saved only by outside help—not to mention celebrities and charity concerts—is a destructive and misleading conceit". [28]

The novel was adapted into a seventeen-episode television series for Apple TV+ with Justin Theroux, Paul Theroux's nephew, playing the lead role. The series was developed by Neil Cross and the premiere episode was directed by Rupert Wyatt. If Harrison Ford slowly revealed the depths of Allie’s mania in the film, Justin Theroux gives him a shorter fuse and plays him with his ego closer to the surface; that’s good for ratcheting up the intensity of these episodes, but perhaps doesn’t leave much room for unravelling in a second season. It also positions George to deliver the more intriguing and enigmatic performance. There are moments in which the actress wordlessly gives us glimpses of what Margot finds enticing and scary about her husband. In this take on the character, Margot has real agency in navigating the nomad life the Foxes are living — and Mosquito Coast is nothing if not Nomadland with lots and lots of artificial complications — and the always-interesting George avoids letting us come to easy conclusions as to whether that’s a good or bad thing. There’s a comparably challenging dynamic that Polish and Bateman have to play, as their characters both admire and doubt — frequently at once — a man who may only admire himself. The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia by Paul Theroux". Powell’s Books. Archived from the original on 2007-09-29.In truth, the first section of the book – pre the moonlight flit – was high octane stuff. Allie, despite his downsides, did actually demonstrate that he was quite a clever bloke and he did seem to have some good ideas and decent engineering skills. His encounters with just about everyone he came across, though, ended with him ranting about just how rubbish everything he’d not himself invented was. It was, at times, hilarious. a b Interview with Eleanor Wachtel, CBC Radio, 30th International Festival of Authors, Toronto, October 25, 2009.

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