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Four college girls who land in jail after robbing a restaurant in order to fund their spring break vacation find themselves bailed out by a drug and arms dealer who wants them to do some dirty work.Written and Directed by Harmony Korine
Release Date: March 15, 2013 (limited) , March 22, 2013 (wide)
This movie is going to make a trillion dollars.
Quote from: polkablues on January 09, 2013, 05:48:45 PM
This movie is going make a trillion dollars boners.
fixd
It deserves it all. Tied with the master as my favourite of the year.
It's gonna be hard for any trailer in 2013 to top this trailer. Sorry, Pain & Gain.
GO SEE THIS MOVIE!
I'm fucking shameless...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSeNSzJ2-Jw
Interesting that in the French-subtitled trailer Drenka posted, when James Franco says "big booties," the subtitles changed it to "petits culs" (SMALL booties). Whassup with that, France?
I don't know. "Petits culs" is more frequent, I guess. And "sweeter" (aha) than "Gros culs." But in french, "petit culs" is used for "Nice booties". It's universal. :yabbse-grin:
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Gotdamn. :oops:
Quote from: Pubrick on January 09, 2013, 06:07:25 PM
Quote from: polkablues on January 09, 2013, 05:48:45 PM
This movie is going make a trillion dollars boners.
fixd
haha, yes.......more like Fall Breakers.
My (eventual) review...
Really sick French Trailer
Moved up one week - Opens in NY and LA on March 15, wide on March 22
There was a premiere at Paris yesterday with Korine and the girls. It was expensive and full of crazy fan girls, so I didn't go. But I read that little girls (13, younger maybe) were there and left the theater because it was "shocking." :yabbse-grin:
New trailer (http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/watch-new-wild-red-band-trailer-for-harmony-korines-spring-breakers-20130221?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed)
And another (http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/lets-cause-some-trouble-new-red-band-trailer-for-spring-breakers-20130226?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed)
It was insane. Mostly great (the second act is weak, sometimes, but I don't really mind.) The editing was...liquid? Something like that. It took me completely.
SPOILERs
Sad that Faith leave the movie halfway through, she was the only one with a soul...It drags a little bit from there, but the melancholy of these devil girls (they're the devil, really) is really sad...
And that Britney Spears scene ! THAT SCENE. :shock:
http://pitchfork.com/advance/43-spring-breakers-original-motion-picture-soundtrack/
britney not on soundtrack, like madonna wasn't on gummo soundtrack
listening -- lol i can't wait for this fucker
this movie has way too much promotional material.
looks like harmony k is going all out, maybe he and his woman-child wife are planning to have a kid or something.
or he's getting back into hard drugs. either way, the money is definitely going to be rolling in.
I can't really legitimize or figure out why, but I just don't give a shit about this movie, or HK. I guess i'm glad he gets to be so "non contemporary" yet still have an audience.
any compelling reasons why I should, because i find that I align with most of you tasteful individuals?
http://htmlgiant.com/film/spring-breakers/
If I read that, is it gonna spoil the fuck out of the movie by breaking down its plot and shit? Looks good, but I can't let that happen...
that writer has not yet seen the movie, but discusses certain qualities of the premise and hk's pov
Yeah, I'mma pass
Man, this movie is the holy grail for Reelist.
I just hope this movie teaches me how to be a rapper
Quote from: Neil on March 12, 2013, 04:50:56 PM
I can't really legitimize or figure out why, but I just don't give a shit about this movie, or HK. I guess i'm glad he gets to be so "non contemporary" yet still have an audience.
any compelling reasons why I should, because i find that I align with most of you tasteful individuals?
It's not what you think, they're just trying to get asses in seats. I've posted before why you should go see it, so i won't retread. if you like gasper noe, like michael man, like harmony korine then you'll like this.
Quote from: socketlevel on March 14, 2013, 11:37:34 AM
Quote from: Neil on March 12, 2013, 04:50:56 PM
I can't really legitimize or figure out why, but I just don't give a shit about this movie, or HK. I guess i'm glad he gets to be so "non contemporary" yet still have an audience.
any compelling reasons why I should, because i find that I align with most of you tasteful individuals?
It's not what you think, they're just trying to get asses in seats. I've posted before why you should go see it, so i won't retread. if you like gasper noe, like michael man, like harmony korine then you'll like this.
Consider my ass in the seat. Not sure why i was actin' spicious.
Quote from: socketlevel on March 14, 2013, 11:37:34 AM
Quote from: Neil on March 12, 2013, 04:50:56 PM
I can't really legitimize or figure out why, but I just don't give a shit about this movie, or HK. I guess i'm glad he gets to be so "non contemporary" yet still have an audience.
any compelling reasons why I should, because i find that I align with most of you tasteful individuals?
It's not what you think, they're just trying to get asses in seats. I've posted before why you should go see it, so i won't retread. if you like gasper noe, like michael man, like harmony korine then you'll like this.
and it's surprisingly Malickian!
Walk-outs definitely where I've seen it; it was full of a young, very young, not even really teenagers yet, "audience", because you can see all the boobs and ass you want in France if you are twelve. The girls near me were thrilled. Not even twelve and they had fooled the movie theater!
So, yes, at first, it's like that:
Then it's silence.
The movie is very Malickian, yes, and that's why the MTV part of it is really interesting. Because there is always a counterpoint in the editing.
I keep bouncing back and forth between being very excited about this movie and wanting to hate it, and I haven't seen it yet. Is that normal?
Anyways, I'm seeing it at the Arclight tomorrow with Harmony Korine Q&A to follow: https://www.arclightcinemas.com/news/qa-spring-breakers?promo=spotlightD (https://www.arclightcinemas.com/news/qa-spring-breakers?promo=spotlightD)
franco gives a double-barreled performance and establishes himself as our era's james franco
at least four full sequences just crush
it's a nasty fresh basket of bananas idk
want to enter this void again
and as gass says, to reach through hyperbole the otherwise unobtainable
Holy shit. Did anyone understand what he just wrote?
something about being gassy.
from the nasty bananas
post needs a bibliography but spring breakers is your rosetta stone. to preserve reelist's virginity
Theres a few fantastic sequences in this film and James Franco is wonderful in it.
...But thats pretty much all I can think to say about it.
You know how sometimes someone will say something like "Oh man, I loved the Sopranos!" and you'll think to yourself "That guy liked The Sopranos, but for all the wrong reasons..."? I feel like thats what's going to happen to Spring Breakers, except I can't figure out what the right reasons would be.
Harmony Korine Talks 'Spring Breakers', Narrative Freedom & Why The ATL Twins Make America Great
via The Playlist
After opening in New York and Los Angeles last Friday, this weekend, U.S. audiences will get to see the latest fucked-up cinematic opus from enfant terrible Harmony Korine. "Spring Breakers," featuring James Franco alongside an unlikely young cast including Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens and Ashley Benson, tells the story of four bored college coeds (the aforementioned three actresses plus Rachel Korine, the director's wife) who rob a restaurant to fund a booze-and-drug-fueled trip to Florida, only to fall in with Franco's Alien, a rapper and gangster who loves spring break (calling it "the American dream") almost as much as he loves the four females leads, and their brazen acceptance of the criminal lifestyle.
In his review of the film from Venice last year, The Playlist's Oli Lyttelton quite nicely stated, "midnight movie programmers of the future will undoubtedly give it a long life years after it's gone from first-run theaters." This writer agrees -- it's probably my favorite film of 2013 so far. Regardless of whatever arbitrary rating you want to slap on "Spring Breakers," it's thrilling, hilarious, original, weird and stylish as hell, everything we've come to expect from Korine, just in a shiny new package. In his 20-year career thus far, the self-professed "soldier of cinema" has constantly surprised us with bold, sometimes perplexing but always distinct choices every time out, proving that while most American filmmakers are happy to turn right or left towards tried and true (and often safe) routes in their careers, Korine basically flips off all sides and continues to carve his own path.
The Playlist: With "Spring Breakers," I left the theater feeling how accurately you nailed the juxtaposition of the spring break experience: the fun, wild, craziness of it all along with darker, nihilistic and disgusting aspects.
Harmony Korine: Oh yeah, it's just that sometimes things are both, right? It's weird, in some ways it's not meant to be a movie purely about spring break. Spring break is a metaphor for the rest of the story and some ways representative of that dream that you're talking about. Things seem perfect at first, for one day. The longer you go, the more horrible it gets, and then it veers closer to the feeling you experiencing in the film. But yeah, I wanted the movie to have that feeling; be a reinterpretation of that world.
"Spring Breakers" seems to be your pop art film, and it's clearly your most accessible work to date. When you make something more accessible and "mainstream" like this, especially when you work with bigger actors, there are limitations to that. What do you think working under these confines did for you as a filmmaker?
It was fun because all the actors worked at their job, they all did their part and played their roles, they all were willing to take it to the extremes. All of the actors and actresses were at a point in their lives where they were ready to do something more extreme, more graphic, a different kind of acting style. So I don't feel like I had to make any concessions working with them.
One of the things I responded strongly to in "Spring Breakers" was the editing by Douglas Crise, who you've never worked with until now. The editing is amazing. It's as if the film itself is hung-over, like trying to remember a few wild nights of partying and seemingly random pieces will pop up out of nowhere in that memory.
Yeah, we wanted the film to have this boozy, liquid narrative vibe to it. I wanted it to be images and sounds coming back, this kind of propulsive, frenetic and murky narrative. It was more about capturing this specific energy, something more wild and more closely replicating a drug experience. Something that was more hallucinatory, transcendent, more physical, emotional, you know, and at the same time make it exciting.
As a filmmaker you've never really been interested in narrative, so what would your response be to some critics of the film who say "Spring Breakers" is thin on story?
I wouldn't respond because I'm fine with that. I think with narrative, if that's what people are looking for, like a Tom Clancy novel or something, that's not what I do. I'm not interested in that. This film does have a distinctive and specific narrative, and a simple narrative, but also there's a lot of complexity that surrounds it. I'm welcoming and open to all interpretations.
Have you been influenced by Gaspar Noe since becoming friends and working with him? You employed his usual DP Benoit Debie on this film, and he captured a similar look with this and "Enter the Void" as far as the colors and the hallucinatory feel.
Yeah, Gaspar is a really good friend of mine and I wasn't sure how I would shoot it. Benoit is very, very inventive, and again, I wanted something outside the realm of a traditional narrative film, something more epic, almost like a video game or a pop song. Benoit is incredible when it comes to making things like the colors you mentioned and a total dimension, and, yeah, he's one of the best.
You're 40 years old now, and it seems like you've really mellowed out with age. It's maybe not totally fair to say you were confrontational in interviews at a younger age, but that element of your persona seems to have mellowed a bit.
Yeah probably. In some ways that's probably the case. I try to filter all the aggression in to the films, in to the work. All that gnarly energy goes in to the movies and the artwork and stuff, so it's all there but I just try to put it out in a different way.
Can you talk about the influence from your father, Sol Korine, on your work? From what I understand he produced documentaries for PBS in the '70s and was interested in colorful, Southern characters, which seems like a very direct inspiration.
Yeah he's great. He's a filmmaker that made some really amazing documentaries in the '70s and early '80s with his partner Blaine Dunlap. They were always attracted to something with a distraction in it as well as the more marginalized characters, a lot of Southern eccentrics like moonshiners, carnies and fire breathers. I spent a year of my life living with a carnival, traveling through Florida as a kid. They were drawn to those types of characters so growing up around that stuff and watching them make films, you know, for much of my life, I got to see a lotta good shit. It definitely shaped my worldview.
Talk about working with the ATL Twins, who appear as James Franco's sort of henchmen, for this film.
I mean, the ATL Twins are what makes America great. They're just like the most perfect scumbags to ever exist. They're pure delinquents, almost like non-human. Their whole philosophy has been distilled in to this idea of the power of the double penetration, a double dick. That's basically how they've distilled all their beliefs, into that idea. They don't even drink water, they just live off of vicoden and Red Bull and menthol cigarettes and they just piss kidney stones all day. They're kind of like first class citizens. They're unbelievable. How could you not be drawn to that?
Any other up and coming freaks or outsiders we should be on the lookout for who you've discovered and are waiting to use in the future?
Ceddy Bu Da Rap Sumo (http://www.youtube.com/user/CEDDYBU)
Will "Fight Harm" ever be released?
I don't know, I have to wait and see. It's one of those things I go back and forth on, whether it's more powerful as an idea or whether I should show knife fights. Only time will tell. It's difficult for me to make that decision to show it. It's just brutal. And it's also hilarious, but it's hard for me to go back and look at that. It was pretty intense.
A few years ago you mentioned you were working on something involving a voodoo tap dancer, is that a reality, is it something we'll ever get to see?
You mean the video that's like an instructional voodoo dance video? Yeah, that's something that will probably come out. My only fear with that is I've shown it to a few people and it's fucked them up really badly, like they go in to almost a trance. It brings out some really weird shit in people. The hard part is trying to get them out of that experience and be able to dance in reverse.
What has been your experience like working with James Franco? You've directed him in "Spring Breakers" and collaborated with him on some art projects as well, will you work with him more in the future?
Oh yeah for sure, I think this is just the beginning. He's one of America's great actors. We're friends, we always talked about working together. It was just a matter of finding a character. I feel like at heart, at his core, he's a great character actor and he'd never been given the chance to play someone like this, to explode onscreen...it's gonna be hard for him to top this shit.
"Spring Breakers" is an incredibly subversive film, and a lot of that stems from lead actresses. Was that the idea from the beginning, to subvert expectations and even confuse the audience expecting something else from these actors?
Totally, I was really excited by the prospect of fans coming to see this film and having this type of experience outside the realm of stuff that most of them have seen. That was definitely a bonus.
Interview with Harmony Korine on Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/61831560#)
Quote from: wilderesque on March 22, 2013, 03:12:07 PM
Interview with Harmony Korine on Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/61831560#)
So strange to me how old he looks nowadays, I still have the image of the kid that went on the Letterman show in my memory..
I really enjoyed it! Although, I watched it with my mom so it was super awkward, but I thought it was great. My psyche still hasn't recovered. That's what I love about Korine's movies. He fucks up your psyche for just a little while, but the movie will always stick with you. Love it.
You can read my review here, if you'd like! http://flickeringcinema.wordpress.com/2013/03/22/spring-breakers-movie-review/
Quote from: sarahcooper14 on March 23, 2013, 09:47:55 AMAlthough, I watched it with my mom so it was super awkward
Yikes. I might be able to top that, though. I saw Requiem For A Dream in the theater with my mom when it was released. She did not like it and sort of wondered why she was there. But it was worth it. (I didn't have a driver's license yet and couldn't find a ride.)
Quote from: sarahcooper14 on March 23, 2013, 09:47:55 AM
I watched it with my mom so it was super awkward, but I thought it was great.
on twitter this girl said her mom smashed their copy of Burn After Reading with a hammer because of the language and the sex. Wonder what she did after this, bash her own brains in?
Quote from: Reelist on March 23, 2013, 01:06:36 PM
Quote from: sarahcooper14 on March 23, 2013, 09:47:55 AM
I watched it with my mom so it was super awkward, but I thought it was great.
on twitter this girl said her mom smashed their copy of Burn After Reading with a hammer because of the language and the sex. Wonder what she did after this, bash her own brains in?
Haha, no she didn't do that. But I warned her ahead of time that it would be vulgar (by her standards). She really didn't like the whole 'James Franco performing fellatio on gun barrels' part. But I think she had her eyes closed for a lot of it.
My five word review:
Scarface for Southern white girls.
Quote from: Reelist on March 24, 2013, 04:59:36 PM
Scarface for Southern white girls.
"Say howdy to my little friend, y'all!"
Quote from: Kellen on March 22, 2013, 03:40:26 PM
Quote from: wilderesque on March 22, 2013, 03:12:07 PM
Interview with Harmony Korine on Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/61831560#)
So strange to me how old he looks nowadays, I still have the image of the kid that went on the Letterman show in my memory..
And Rachel Korine looks young. Like daughter-young. Actually niece-young would be more appropriate.
Teens Think "Spring Breakers" Is the Worst Movie Ever Made (http://www.film.com/movies/spring-breakers-worst-movie-ever)
Quote from: Kellen on March 25, 2013, 11:36:20 AM
Teens Think "Spring Breakers" Is the Worst Movie Ever Made (http://www.film.com/movies/spring-breakers-worst-movie-ever)
Awesome!
Quote from: socketlevel on March 25, 2013, 03:12:43 PM
Quote from: Kellen on March 25, 2013, 11:36:20 AM
Teens Think "Spring Breakers" Is the Worst Movie Ever Made (http://www.film.com/movies/spring-breakers-worst-movie-ever)
Awesome!
confirming your sarcasm? what is the point of this?
Wow... you guys are being way too forgiving to this piece of shit bore.
James Franco is great in it and all, but they give him about three good scenes and the rest of it is just a repetitive, boring mess.
It definitely kept reminding me what I don't like about most of Korine's films. He's clearly looking down on his characters... it all feels so artificial and insincere.
and I can't decide if he's making fun of Malick or trying to be him, but either way he's failing here.
I have insomnia, but I was trying my damnedest to fall asleep during this movie.... something with this many guns and boobs should be more entertaining. I kept thinking to myself "I read this thing was only an hour and a half, it's been at least two and a half by now".
Quote from: JG on March 25, 2013, 04:57:45 PM
Quote from: socketlevel on March 25, 2013, 03:12:43 PM
Quote from: Kellen on March 25, 2013, 11:36:20 AM
Teens Think "Spring Breakers" Is the Worst Movie Ever Made (http://www.film.com/movies/spring-breakers-worst-movie-ever)
Awesome!
confirming your sarcasm? what is the point of this?
Were you asking me what the point of posting that link was? I just find it funny that a bunch of kids probably thought this was gonna be some silly movie because of Selena Gomez and Vanessa Hudgens involvement when instead they got a full on art/korine flick. I'm guessing most of them had never watched any of Harmony's previous films and if they think this is the worst movie ever what on earth would they say about trash humpers/gummo/julien donkey boy?
Quote from: Kellen on March 26, 2013, 05:02:20 PM
Were you asking me what the point of posting that link was? I just find it funny that a bunch of kids probably thought this was gonna be some silly movie because of Selena Gomez and Vanessa Hudgens involvement when instead they got a full on art/korine flick.
The best thing about this film is that it can attract an audience like that and then completely subvert their expectations. Unfortunately it lacks any substance to go along with that subversion.
A lot of the tweets in that article complain about Spring Breakers getting boring at points and being too repetitive, which I think are pretty valid complaints.
Here's an interview.
"
...it's where like retardation and transcendence intersect."
Quote from: Kellen on March 26, 2013, 05:02:20 PM
Quote from: JG on March 25, 2013, 04:57:45 PM
Quote from: socketlevel on March 25, 2013, 03:12:43 PM
Quote from: Kellen on March 25, 2013, 11:36:20 AM
Teens Think "Spring Breakers" Is the Worst Movie Ever Made (http://www.film.com/movies/spring-breakers-worst-movie-ever)
Awesome!
confirming your sarcasm? what is the point of this?
Were you asking me what the point of posting that link was? I just find it funny that a bunch of kids probably thought this was gonna be some silly movie because of Selena Gomez and Vanessa Hudgens involvement when instead they got a full on art/korine flick. I'm guessing most of them had never watched any of Harmony's previous films and if they think this is the worst movie ever what on earth would they say about trash humpers/gummo/julien donkey boy?
Yea, I guess I just found the article really condescending and unproductive - I don't expect a random sampling of teenagers on twitter to connect with the film, and to have unpacked its cultural commentary, and i don't think anybody should.
(mah letterboxd review)
why does spring break exist? why do so many people NEED it? this is a real question that no one asks (except for harmony korine), even though it's STARING us all in the face. we tend to dismiss the phenomenon as kids being kids. but what's lacking in our personal worlds to the extent that we must seek out this chaos? i've figured out ways to regulate my own desire for chaos through art. and that's not meant to be an 'outlet' or a way to 'blow off steam'. it's meant to be a way of life. because we all need to indulge in a little madness to stay sane.
extremism is like sugar. simple, sweet, tempting, and so easy. it's an explosive state of mind that we fall into after some kind of extended repression or depravation. this movie presents really important questions about where our culture sits when we can only think in extremes. where's the disconnect in education, religion, family? why are so many of our institutions so boring to so many people? by having the guts to take spring break seriously, as a spiritual journey and a true, visceral NEED for thousands of young people, it punches you in the face with these brilliant questions.
franco's phenomenal too.
some reviews make me hate this movie...
at this point i think he has given up on being a professional filmmaker and become a full time professional Spring Breakers promoter.
He needs to do Letterman again, in the James Franco interview Dave said he banned him from the show in 1999 after he caught him in Meryl Streep's dressing room going through her purse. James said Harmony told him that he was "on something" and "pushed" Meryl Streep. I don't think there's any incident I want to hear more about in the world right now, and Dave said he's more than welcome to come back.
Korine was interviewed on the most recent Empire podcast and they asked him about the purse incident. He said he's happy for people to believe it if they want to or not. Whatever. Sounds like he was indeed pretty strung out at the time. He didn't sound bothered about the Letterman ban being lifted.
This seems to sum it up, from HarmonyKorine.com (http://www.harmony-korine.com/paper/index/i_lateshow.html):
A fourth appearance - to promote julien donkey-boy, released in US theaters on October 15, 1999 - was arranged for October 28, but as interviews ran overtime Korine was rescheduled for the following night. The opening credits for the October 29 show listed Korine's name, along with Meryl Streep and musician Natalie Merchant, and each time Letterman announced the night's guests Korine was still noted, but once again he did not appear.
What happened was later explained by Bruce LaBruce, who wrote in his his fornightly column for Toronto's Eye Weekly:
"As for Korine, consider his recent antics, which may have gotten him permanently banned from the Letterman show. I have it from one unconfirmed but close source that after being bumped for the second time in two weeks, this time in favour of the world's largest pumpkin, Harmful threw a tantrum in the Green Room and shoved Meryl Streep, causing Letterman to opine: "That kid's a hothead. He's not coming back on this show again." In my humble opinion, such a guest is exactly what Letterman's tired show needs and, after Music of the Heart, Streep could use some shoving."
Blu-ray on July 9, 2013
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Spring Breakers - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/Spring-Breakers-Blu-ray/ref=%26%2574%2561g%3d%2562l%2575r%2561y%252d010%252d20?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-010-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00BEJL4XS&ASIN=B00BEJL4XS&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)
Special Features:
Breaking it Down: Behind Spring Breakers" – A Behind-the-Scenes 3-Part Documentary
Part 1 – "Film Makers: Spring Breakers"
Part 2 – "Breaking Convention"
Part 3 – "Spring Breakers Forever"
Deleted Scene/Outtakes
"Harmony's Ear Candy" featurette – An Insightful Look at the Music of Spring Breakers
Audio Commentary with Writer/Director Harmony Korine
VICE featurettes - An Inside Look at the ATL Twins and Real Life Partying in Panama City Beach
Theatrical Trailer
TV Spots
Unreleased Spring Breakers Teaser
How did this do in America? Was it a cross-over hit with the college crowd? Did the Disney stars make it a big deal?
Just curious cause i'd love Korine to get his hands on a big budget, haven't seen it yet but this really seems like the one that could act as springboard.
Quote from: Garam on May 19, 2013, 11:02:35 AM
How did this do in America? Was it a cross-over hit with the college crowd? Did the Disney stars make it a big deal?
not well enough (http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=springbreakers.htm) to make korine the next shane black.
the budget on this thing was apparently just $5million but considering the amount of PRESS we've seen you can be pretty safe in guessing they flushed a lot more than that down the toilet trying to get people to see it.
from my understanding it was talked about very briefly and intensely on twitter by the audience that would have made it a hit, they unanimously agreed that it was a piece of shit. understandably so, since they're fucking idiots.
It's like, you're at the mercy of the gods, and they all have an IQ of about 82.
Oh well, can't blame the guy for trying.
i know i have missed the proverbial bus or whatever the vehicle is in the proverb but yeah here goes:
i enjoyed it but i completely understand and even sympathize with everyone that hated it.
i understand the younger crowd hating it bc it was kind of a trick to use a cast that is the polar opposite of the director, but i guess that's what film is about in a sense. you won't like this film if you don't like korine.
it was really different from his other films in my opinion, i was hoping it would be more gummo, even though i knew it wouldnt be from the excessive amount of promotion which has already been addressed.
i apologize if any of this sounds hoaky but:
the reason i liked the film is because ive grown up around a lot of the shit seen in the film. alabama is very much a party place because there isnt that much to do. also we are in very close proximity of both the notorious new orleans, and several of floridas party cities. and everyone that lives here frequents both constantly. this movie very accurately simulated the feeling of the kind of nights and days you spend in these places. it really becomes a dream after a while, so the cinematography was perfect. when you fall asleep after one of these kinds of parties, you have dreams that look like this movie. you're moving like underwater past seven different kinds of activity in a building that has more people in it than usual. things that are usually respected in a kind of passive way such as furniture and random possessions are treated with complete disregard, people are breaking their own shit and no one cares because everything is so happy. the whole time im thinking that korine just made the movie to be able to be around all that shit and capture it in a beautiful way.
the attempt to have a storyline was pointless because the movie did not need it for its purposes.
so in short:
the movie is beautiful but not necessarily good. franco is awesome and having way too much fun.
Funny little film. I enjoyed it much more than expected. I understand why it got so many bad reviews:
- Plot is thin, almost non-existing (could be annoying on second viewing - no?).
- No character development (they go to the party, they party, then go back - no real transformation).
- No dialogue: they speak, but they don't communicate. Words are used as commentary.
- It is mostly audio-visual experience with heavy reputation and vulgar juxtaposition.
For me it is ultimate pop music video. It does what studios would like to serve to teenage audience, but what they cannot. It is both satire and celebration of current western culture (parts of it). Funny little film, worth seeing for cinematography alone.