Second, Alien tells the young women his revealing life story of growing up in St. Petersburg as the only white kid in his school, and he brings them to a pool hall where almost all the players are black. The very mainspring of the movie is his stereotypical and reductive view of black life as one of drug dealing and gang violence.
The ostensible truth of things—the drive for pleasure, the craving for money, the allure of violence—remains as hidden from relatives and professors as it does from respectable culture at large, whereas the entire throng of revellers—particularly the quartet of young woman and, especially, the two who join Alien in crime—are, for Korine, dans le vrai.
Or, at least, they are so for the span of their spring break before heading back to their lives relatively unscathed. Those they leave behind, those who have no other life to get back to, have a heavier price to pay. Guns are fellated. In Gomez World, it is very much off-message.
Cover your eyes, littles. Every March, for a week, US college kids descend on a beach resort of their choice and proceed to wreck the place, and themselves. Spring Breakers uses this annual ritual as a springboard into darker territory, filtering the neon debauchery through a fantastical looking-glass, infusing it with dread.
Korine — writer of Larry Clark's Kids , director of Gummo and Trash Humpers — began amassing research to make paintings, attracted to the contrast between the violent, sexual content and childlike, poppy colours and images. Korine's "beach noir", as he calls it, involves four girls fleeing to Florida for a spring break blowout, before meeting Alien, a white, cornrowed, teeth-grilled gangsta rapper who takes them under his unscrupulous wing.
Korine gifted Alien to James Franco , who immediately agreed to do it, and the director drove to Panama City to write a draft in the midst of authentic spring-break pandemonium. Kids just destroying shit, fucking in the hallways, setting golf carts on fire, blasting Taylor Swift 24 hours a day. It was cool, but it was really hard to write in that environment. The hotel would just be shaking the whole time, and I couldn't deal with it, so I drove 20 minutes away and checked into a Marriott on a golf course.
It was filled with dwarfs. I asked the receptionist and she said Hulk Hogan was filming a reality show. At night I'd go swimming and there would be all these dwarfs sitting at the edge of the pool smoking cigars.
It was calm, so I finished writing it there. Spring Breakers is not a condemnation of a culture, he says. But the film does hold its characters' pop-culture values up for ridicule. These are people who have learned everything they know about the world from MTV. Other than Gomez's questioning Bible student, the girls are spiritually vacant.
Throughout the film, they behave without fear of consequence. Korine says he's interested in the idea that the jump from watching something to doing something can be negligible. But Spring Breakers merely flirts with its themes.
There's no moralising, and Korine doesn't care to analyse it too much. He enjoys confusion, he says, and is tired of people expecting there to be a point to everything. Despite all that, however, Korine is making a clear cultural statement with his casting. There's obviously something very exciting about working with these girls who are, in some ways, in real life, representative of that culture and that pop mythology; and also people who the public can identify as personalities that are complete contrasts to what they're portraying in the film.
I love that that part is a conceptual shock on top of the actual film. Heidi Bivens Costume Designer. Johnson Maclean's Magazine. View All Critic Reviews Apr 07, Strange and hypnotic but ultimately too slow, unrealistic and just not enough good content. Very similar to the concept and style of "Natural Born Killers" but falls way short.
Ed K Super Reviewer. Jul 10, At a loss to figure out the point of this, is it supposed to be a spring break satire? Or were they really trying for drama in showing the corruption of innocence? And what the hell is with James Franco's performance all over the map like a U2 tour schedule? In the end it doesn't matter what they were trying because nothing works, at all. Messier than an Exxon oil spill. Doctor S Super Reviewer. Feb 02, This film can't figure out if it's a morality tale or a female empowerment indulge in excess.
Selena Gomez's character is the only character with any character sympathy and she is gone half way through, so your left with characters you don't care about heading to a predictable if unbelievable ending. Also a study in how not sexy gratuitous nudity can be. Of interest only to pervs looking to see Hudgens naked. Anthony V Super Reviewer.
Apr 03, Four college students resort to robbery to fund a spring break trip to Florida. Lacking almost all restraint, director Harmony Korine fashions a didactic drama about hedonism and materialism while including enough skin to make Hugh Hefner blush.
Though the film is clearly "artistic" as opposed to pornographic with its slow motion shots, fractured narrative, and repeated "poetic" voice-overs, it can't escape the fact that it quickly becomes a parody of itself. Take for example a scene in which Alien shows off his "pad.
They found a lot of guns and an oddly shaped bed. Overall, Harmony Korine may be a fine writer, as evidenced by Kids, but as a director he has much to learn. Jim H Super Reviewer. See all Audience reviews. There are no approved quotes yet for this movie. Best Horror Movies. Worst Superhero Movies. Best Netflix Series and Shows. Go back. More trailers. Dexter: New Blood: Season 1.
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