Films that may have influenced Spring Breakers include: Scarface, Drive, Risky Business, or Hanna. He even references Scarface directly in the dialogue, while recreating that film's finale shootout for Spring Breaker's ending climax.
Harmony Korine polished off his edges from Kids and Gummo to make a modern Scarface with teenage girls. Korine's direction is more appealing and accessible than ever before. You will think twice before partying to the limits of decency or messing with girls like these again. Harmony Korine satirizes the millennial generation's nihilism, hedonism, and pleasure seeking with a parable demonstrated through the blistering violent set pieces in Spring Breakers. He certainly lives up to the intense and shocking sequences we've come to expect from Korine, but he goes further. Korine portrays the lust and insanity of teenage girls hellbent on having a good time. It features endless hedonism, partying, debauchery, robbery, gunfights, and nudity so much so that your mind is fried by the end of Spring Breakers. Harmony Korine's Spring Breakers (2012) is a feast for the eyes. But he's also lonely and needy, and in these girls – or at least in a couple of them – he thinks he's found his soul mates.A sultry crime caper with mesmerizing visuals. He talks a lot of trash, jumping up and down on his cash-covered bed with a machine gun in each hand, flashing a devious smile through a glittering grill. When they get busted for narcotics possession – and the flashy Alien shows up to bail them out – their fates are sealed. They just needed a little shove, which the promise of non-stop partying provides. Spring break in Florida beckons, and after a quick-and-dirty, coked-up diner robbery – which three of the girls pull off without the help of Gomez's character, the churchgoing Faith – they're headed South.Ĭlearly these women already were headed for trouble long before they got in the car they're essentially wild animals in hot pink nail polish. The four longtime friends (Gomez, Hudgens, Ashley Benson of "Pretty Little Liars" and Rachel Korine, the director's wife) long to escape the drudgery of their dreary college life. The young women of "Spring Breakers" have their own treacherous road to follow. And in playing a complicated, flawed ringleader, he's much more effective here than he was in "Oz the Great and Powerful." It's a showy, wonderfully weird performance, but Franco also finds the vulnerability beneath the bravado. But James Franco steals the whole movie away when he arrives about halfway through as a cornrowed, wanna-be gangster rapper named Alien (pronounced a-LEEN). The corruption of formerly squeaky-clean Disney Channel superstars Selena Gomez and Vanessa Hudgens may be Korine's cleverest trick of all: They get to show some range, we get to gawk. In super slo-mo, as beer-soaked party girls cavort on the beach to the thump of electronic dance music, is that how it actually feels in the middle of it? Or is that the frightening extreme adults imagine when they dare to ponder what their kids are up to each March?
But "Spring Breakers" is also provocative in various ways –totally unsurprising from the guy who wrote Larry Clark's "Kids" at age 19 – depending on the viewer. There is a great deal of genuine artistry in this film, which is the most polished and mainstream to date from the maker of indies like "Trash Humpers." The exquisite images, which range from intimately gritty to eerily glowing, come from Belgian cinematographer Benoit Debie, and Cliff Martinez ("Drive") complements them with a mesmerizing score.
But it stuck with me, and it made me appreciate the genius of Korine's approach. In the moment, I found it numbingly repetitive, even boring at times: an obvious juxtaposition of sex and violence, of dreamlike aesthetics within a nightmare scenario. This is the rare movie that I actually found myself liking more the longer I spent away from it and the more I thought about it – mainly because I couldn't stop thinking about it. He wants to satirize the debauchery of girls gone wild while simultaneously reveling in it. Harmony Korine seems to want it both ways, all day, with "Spring Breakers," his super-stylized descent into a sunbaked hell where bikini-clad, gun-toting college babes serve as our guides.Īs writer and director, Korine wants us to be appalled and aroused, hypnotized and titillated. "Spring Breakers," from A24 Films, is rated R for strong sexual content, language, nudity, drug use and violence throughout.
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