They even call their moms and say "we're heading back to school now, we'll be good now" and they're given a chance to explore this world, but without the negative consequences. But they have done something that we know they can get away with.
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(Spoilers) At first I did find the ending problematic with the girls killing off an entire house full of black men, but I think at that point the movie leads us to root for these girls. While yes it does look that way, it uses that visage to allow some very hyper-sexual and hyper-violent scenes take place, scenes which we accept because they are in the movie. A lot of reviews for Spring Breakers seem to immediately be pointing at it being all style and no substance. Behind the film’s vacuous candy-colored outer shell are ambiguous and morally challenging concepts. Now that’s “so gross.”ĭon’t let the sandy beaches and brightly colored bikini suits fool you, Korine’s not in the business of sloppy moviemaking. Then there’s the racial criticism: These girls are able to get away with murder, in a large part because they’re cute and white. In this culture, spring break is a proper rite of passage in the college experience. Remember those catchphrases I mentioned before? A critic noted that memes are a commentary on our current culture: repetitive, glamorized, fetishized, overused, and then forgotten. It’s a part of the disposable culture that values then destroys its pop stars and its child stars (like Vanessa Hudgens and Selena Gomez). While Spring Breakers is superficially amoral, Korine makes sure we know that spring break does not in fact last forever. It’s a creative route also taken by Terrance Malick, Shane Carruth, David Lynch, and Korine himself, of course, in his controversial film Kids, about reckless New York teens. When I asked director Harmony Korine about the various unpleasantries Spring Breakers after the screening, he stood his artistic ground that he wants audiences to decide what it means for themselves. Like much of the film, the scene is hypersexualized, hyperviolent, and hyperconfusing. She tells him to suck the gun, which he does so enthusiastically. There’s also a scene in which one of the girls humiliates the egotistical Alien, putting a gun to his head and making him submit to her. There’s another potentially triggering moment where a woman is surrounded by young jocks who drunkenly dare each other to have sex with her. Is she scared that she’s no longer surrounded by the mostly white college dudes from before? The group of girls are made to look white, with three of the four sporting dyed blond hair. Here, Selena Gomez’ character, Faith, becomes aware that the girls are in over their heads and decides to leave the group. After the group is bailed out of jail by James Franco’s character, Alien, the four are brought to gambling house filled by mostly black extras. The girls start their spring break by robbing a diner, and in a flashback retelling, the two robbers of the group seem proud of the fact that they robbed a black patron. It’s the kind of movie where characters commit murder in bikinis.īut even after setting the explicit stage, the movie was rife with shocking, problematic moments revolving around sexual assault and race. Petersburg, Florida (which for the record, does not have a public nude beach). The first ten minutes of credits is just that: topless keg stands, close-up shots of bouncing boobs in slow motion, and plenty of wasteful pouring of booze onto the beaches of St. Spring Breakers revels in the exploitive and abusive culture that encourages bros to mew dirty cat calls and applaud when chicks strip.
On the flip side, it’s amoral, violent, sexually explicit, and certainly not everyone’s cup of tea. As for my own amusement, the film is set near my hometown, which added a little personal pride and irony-I’m usually the one calling the cops on the spring breakers back home.
The performances were astonishingly good for what otherwise could have been “Beach Blanket Bingo” gone wild and it’s packed with meme-ready catchphrases. Visually, it’s a film nerd’s paradise: creative, innovative, captivating, full of symbolism, and so saturated with neon, half the movie looks as if it took place in a basement club. The film’s infamous spring breakers are a group of four college girls searching for fun in the Florida sun. I wiped the smile off my face and quickly sidled out. “It was so gross,” her equally disgusted friend added. “Urgh, that was such an AWFUL movie,” some girl in an expensive dress and platinum badge said behind me. I liked the film I was beaming when washing my hands in the ladies room. I had this awkward moment at the Paramount Theatre in Austin after the frenzied SXSW premiere of Harmony Korine’s much-hyped Spring Breakers.