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All movies seen on 03/30/2013

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Spring Breakers (2013)

Directed by Harmony Korine

Drama

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Overview

After four college girls rob a restaurant to fund their spring break in Florida, they get entangled with a weird dude with his own criminal agenda.

Rated R | Length 94 minutes

Actors

Ashley Benson | Vanessa Hudgens | James Franco | Rachel Korine | Selena Gomez | Gucci Mane | Heather Morris | Ash Lendzion | Sidney Sewell | Thurman Sewell | Emma Holzer | Lee Irby | Jeff Jarrett | Russell Stuart | Josh Randall | Travis Duncan | John McClain | Paige Anderson | Rebecca Kauffman | Tony Robinette | Megan Russell | Kathryn Trail | Ken Anthony II | Karleigh Chase | Vivian Fleming-Alvarez | Tom Franco | Mattox Gardner | Rod Grant | Anthony J. James | Dave Kramer | Erik Anthony Russo | Dayton Sinkia | Lauren Vera | Benjamin Weaver | Nicole Paris Williams

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Viewing Notes

I never walk into a Harmony Korine movie even pretending to know what it’s going to be about, and generally I treat them as works of art to be thought about and contemplated, whether or not I ever fully understand them.

While Spring Breakers is easily Korine’s most accessible film since, perhaps, Kids (which he didn’t direct), I’m not sure I’ll ever understand the intent, or that it even matters. I can say that I loved every damn minute of this movie and I’d be surprised if it doesn’t make my top ten list at year’s end.

Despite the fact that the film is steeped in nudity and excessive behavior of almost every sort (well, every sort you might expect to see in Florida during spring break), it’s Franco who steals the film with his great performance as a white rapper/gangster.

Everything else is a swirl of color and excess, to the point where it really just becomes scenery, a human landscape of bad behavior, questionable intentions and crude sexuality.

The music and sound design are excellent as well; I especially liked the repetition of dialogue in ways that placed it in different contexts to what was happening on screen at that moment.

I really want to see this again in the theater. I’m still amazed it got a wide release, or really, even made for that matter.

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