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I loved the shit out of Spring Breakers. I went in expecting In Bruges, the SO went in expecting Kids, and it thwarted all of our expectations. We're still talking about it two days later.
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My main problem with Spring Breakers was that it was Harmony Korine being Harmony Korine and since I hated Kids and the little I saw of Gummo, I had low hopes for this one and it even dashed those hopes. Harmony Korine is like Brett Easton Ellis in that he only writes about horrible stupid people being horrible and stupid without any insight or attempts at warmth. And while "Everything sucks! People are stupid!" is a standard trope in most teenage diaries, it gets pretty tedious over the course of an entire movie.
Basically, this movie lost me at the beginning scene where college douchebags were acting like douchebags. It really never got better, except for the scene where the girls are killing the rival drug dealer. That was pretty cool.
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I...don't know what to say to that.
And that's a pretty surface read, I have to say. "Everything sucks! People are stupid!" Really? You missed all the racial subtext, I guess. http://movies.nytimes.com/2013/03/15/movies/spring-breakers-directed-by-harmony-korine.html?pagewanted=all
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