‘Spring Breakers,’ Directed By Harmony Korine
If the laughter at occasions catches in your throat, well, that is part of the queasy, transfixing expertise that’s Spring Breakers,” which performs with some of the identical ideas in Mr. Korine’s final function, Trash Humpers” In that movie, shot on VHS tape, four characters in rubber masks run amok, getting down and soiled as they compulsively, even ritualistically grind their pelvises in opposition to something — rubbish, of course, included — in a creepy, joyless but also amusing burlesque. In Spring Breakers” Mr. Korine has traded in his plug-uglies for a far more seductive and commercially viable female quartet that features two former Disney teen queens, Selena Gomez (as Religion) and Vanessa Hudgens (Sweet), together with Ashley Benson (Brit) and his wife, Rachel Korine (Cotty).
Because the movie’s four heroines’ fun and fancy free seaside romp descends right into a black hole of corruption and filth, as skipping down their dorm’s hallway gives technique to drive-by shootings and drunken three-methods, you can’t look away. And as your eyes stay glued to the caustic pictures of coed debauchery (and much, far past), tabloid headlines of Spears’ unraveling float to the forefront of your reminiscence. The parallels between Faith, Sweet, Brit, and Cotty’s (Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Benson, and Rachel Korine, respectively) journey to finish corruption and the doomed paths pop superstars — most notably Spears —travel cannot be missed.
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