Korine's creation benefits from him collaborating with skilled technical artists, who provide Spring Breakers with a subtext about such problems as contemporary self-indulgent behavior and gender inequalities. While it's neither a flawless approach nor easily-accessible, it's engaging - assuming that you can get past the (admittedly) off-putting surface appearance, anyway. Similarly, the film's shallow approach to characterization - in combination with what often feel like play-by-ear conversations and improvised scenarios that make up the film - either intentionally or accidentally provide a biting commentary about the true nature of the world (and its inhabitants) that Korine has envisioned. Other editing choices made throughout support that claim, revealing a technique which, by and large, succeeds at giving the onscreen action greater significance. Indeed, the very first sequence in the film comes off as garish and abrasive, but the way in which Korine continually revisits the (practically comical) sexually-charged footage over the course of Spring Breaker's running time suggests there is a method to his apparent madness (and it does not include titillating the viewers, so don't head in expecting something which amounts to quasi-pornography or a flesh-show).
Instead, we have a film that could better be described as an earnest and compassionate work - one which is constructed with a critical eye, but not so focused on creating satire as you might expect (for better or for worse). The fever dream structure helps to transform Spring Breakers from what could have been an obnoxious celebration of unbridled hedonism, with Korine serving as the ringmaster who parades his sociopathic characters around like freaks (so that audiences can hurl insults at them). By the end, you may either feel as energized as though you've stepped off a roller coaster, or unpleasantly confused about what on Earth you just sat through. Its bare-bones narrative elements and emotional beats progress in a straightforward fashion, but are then elevated through poetic visual and aural devices – producing an exhilarating and hypnotic sensory experience, which transitions from moment to moment with dream-like logic and organization. Spring Breakers is the cinematic equivalent of a hyperactive pop song, blasting its way across the screen. Alien, played by James Franco), a grown white man living a "black gangsta" lifestyle in every sense of the term. When a lack of proper funds threatens to derail their spring break plans, Faith and her companions decide that breaking the law to finance their quest is acceptable (even necessary). Their subsequent pursuit of booze, drugs and general mayhem lands them in hot water - which includes Al (a.k.a.
The story revolves around Faith (Gomez) and her best friends since grade school: Brit (Benson), Candy (Hudgens) and Cotty (Mrs. He returns with Spring Breakers, casting Selena Gomez ( Wizards of Wizardly Place), Vanessa Hudgens ( High School Musical), Ashley Benson ( Pretty Little Liars) and his wife Rachel Korine as a pack of gallivanting bikini-clad college gals. As a whole, this makes for an audacious, yet enthralling and even transcendent, portrait of maturity sprouting from a place of corruption and avarice.įor those not familiar, Harmony Korine is a writer-director and provocateur whose transgressive films like Gummo, Mister Lonely and Trash Humpers have earned him a reputation as the sort of counter-cultural artist you either admire or despise.
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