Spring Breakers
Director: Harmony Korine
Year Released: 2012
Rating: 1.0
Bored college girls (are there any other kind?) commit robbery to fund their Spring Break Adventure, get arrested, get bailed out by a dealer named Alien (James Franco) and then help him in a street war with another dealer (Gucci Mane, enjoying lemonade in the shade with his feet up). Lame as social satire (having money being a dealer is "the dream"), some sort of commentary on race relations (Franco 'acts' black, actual African Americans 'eye' the teenage girls) or even female empowerment (the ladies force Franco to fellate their pistols which reminds me of a marginally better movie called Baise-Moi), this loses considerable energy after its Aphex Twin/"Windowlicker" inspired opening sequence of Kids Living It Up and Enjoying Their Youth While It Lasts (cocaine! beer!). Anyone that doesn't detect Korine's loathing and sarcasm by the twenty minute mark simply isn't thinking hard enough; the cinematography by Benoît Debie is the lone bright spot.
