Spring Breakers

[blake 3:17]

I saw it the other night and found it very ---moving??? --- creepy haunting???

I think it captured a part of the American psyche which hasn't been done in major feature film before.

Anyone else seen it?

[Bostana]

I want too. I've heard about it, but I never really knew what it was about. So what's it about?

[TheGodlessUtopian]

I've seen a couple of commercials for it. From what I can gather it seems like a different kind of "spring break" movie. When it comes out I'll probably download it but before than would like to know a bit more about the plot.

[Raúl Duke]

No, but I'm curious to watching it...
I mean they go to Florida and it's Korine so I kinda wanna see where the movie goes with that.
Maybe I'll hate it, whatever.

[blake 3:17]

It's a fucking art house horror film. I've been talking to folks & putting it on the same level as Vertigo, Chinatown, and Marriage of Maria Braun.

I was expecting an arty sleazy comedy and got my brains blown out. It puts The Master to terrible terrible shame.

It is amongst the most realistic(?) of films depicting drug use and drugged states of mind(s). It hardly mentions drugs by name, but it is clearly depicting a very weirded amphetamine induced weirdedness. That might sound circular, but anyone who's been there knows.

I've been looking at criticism on it, and most has been so mediocre -- middle aged middle class film reviewers are generally not going to recognize crunk when they hear it -- and there's a lot of formal stuff going on that I wasn't expecting.

Probably going to see it again in the theatre tomorrow or next day. But yeah I think it's at the Hitchcock or Fassbinder level of film making.

[Crixus]

I was expecting an arty sleazy comedy and got my brains blown out. It puts The Master to terrible terrible shame.



The Master was basically about Scientology, thought it was great. The best acting I've seen out of Joaqin Phoenix. The charterer freaked me out a bit. Unless Spring Breakers is a blatant attack on the type of people that take part in that nonsensical MTV generic hedonism then I won't even watch it but it has to be (knowing Korine), somewhat how Bret Easton Ellis was fucking with Wall St/Yuppies when he wrote American Psycho.

[blake 3:17]

It makes those Spring Break things into a form of Hell, but there's also something very deeply compassionate about it. There's no time wasted on meatheads except as props.

And the way both vision and sound are edited is very much like a contemporary hip hop record -- weird friggin bits & pieces that keep coming back. I can't remember the last movie that actually made me pay attention to the diegetic and non-diegetic sound.

Anyways... I'd take it seriously & try to see it in a theatre. Like Fassbinder, Korine plays with genre conventions in seriously odd ways, and the sense of time and pacing is really askew in the film.

I saw it in a major box office place, and maybe 10% of the audience was totally into it and clapping (or heckling) at parts, and the rest I think were probably kind of lost by the whole thing.

[Pirate Utopian]

I definitely want to see it. James Franco playing Riff Raff and Gucci Mane as the main villain? Hell yeah!

[blake 3:17]

@PU -- noticed your organizational affiliation. You will freakin love it.

Edited to add: For my fellow lefty nerds, early in the film there is a reference to the Double V campaign waged by African Americans during the Second World War. I think it was the sanest & most genuinely radical position that one could adopt at that period, in many ways superior to the SWP at the same period.

[Pirate Utopian]

I expect it to atleast be better than fucking Trash Humpers

[Os Cangaceiros]

I think that Korine is somewhat of a hack, but Spring Breakers looks like it could possibly be somewhat interesting & subversive. I'll check it out at some point.

[bcbm]

i was going to go see it and it wasnt in any theaters here anymore:(