Spring Breakers (DVD + UltraViolet Digital Copy)

"Spring Breakers" has Candy, Brit, Cotty, and Faith, four girls on break in the lusty sunset beaches of Florida. These girls, all four, have succeeded in cutting off the restraints of their academic drudgery at the same college. In narration over images, in great quietness the girls scare us with the potential mystical implications of pleasure and with the induced nervous fear that we're waiting on an accident to happen. This frenetic world of proton transmitted tinctures is a plain shared by all the participants. The beach side revelries, besides being forged through and also joining revelatory mood spectrums, are accelerated passages that the girls, and other forms within this misted orb, which are two intrusive gangs of thugs, tunnel into cyclic forces. Alien(James Franco), is a tough with silver blinged teeth with two cohorts, nameless, and who are twins. One wants to accept, in a hypnotic relaxation, that Alien has a unique power, but looking at the absolute picture, "Spring Breakers" is the story of several incongruous branches of chemical irridescence, and wills being beaten down in toxicity for dynamic remapping; separate poetic gangster realities. Alien, played in foreboding coolness and with casual sociability, is similar to other hoodlums in literature that populate the destinations of their crime making activity. He has a profound ambition to be successful and this means for him, making money-"stacking", by selling drugs and securing his territory, St. Pete Beach in Florida. Alien scares off Faith(Selena Gomez), from this life, in his rousing endorsing of pleasure anarchy presentation. The other girls, Brit(Ashley Benson), Candy(Vanessa Hudgens), and Cotty(Rachel Korine), are themselves dreamcasters of severe moral ambiguity, and these three relay spectacularly, young lady lackadaisicality and budding neurosis, in their teasing charms and hold-up improvisations. Faith, played by Selena Gomez, is also fantastic as a woman frightened into a humiliation that most people don't have to experience, that of realizing in a brief span of time, that a choice can mean literal subscription to a whole lifestyle. In this story that director Harmony Korine has invoked, his original inspiration of this intense sensory and sensual spectacle has realized elevated landscapes of dynamic attitudes. One of the last lines in the film, said by either Candy or Brit indicates this: "At night ...we can see way past the stars." It is unfortunate that such hazy romances aren't shared in realms of temperance or in tribulations of love or charity. Alien and his kind get into conflict with Big Arch(Gucci Mane), Alien's mentor who is also selling drugs off of the boardwalk. There are a lot of great scenes in "Spring Breakers". The recountings of the girls are at times riveting, being overlaid on to beach scenes of eroticism, and also in prisms of chemically imbalanced sunlight. The music diverts in these transient moods into soft and stretched bell and ringtone melodies.

I wouldn't recommend reading this unless you've seen the film.The bright sun glistens off the bright blue water as the warm sand squishes between your toes. Laughter and joyful screams fill the air. The beer funnel is full again and you're up next. "Woooo!" echoes throughout the beach. Smiles surround you and everyone is inviting. This is Spring break. This is the dream. Though just as all dreams do it is sure to come to an abrupt end. Bright lights and neon swim wear can only last so long before the harsh world comes bounding upon you. How far would you go to make it last? What would you be willing to do in order to have spring break forever? These are just a few of the questions Harmony Korine posits in his newest effort Spring Breakers. A study on the youth culture today and how amoral and corrupt just having fun can become.Korine's nonlinear editing is a thing of genius here and really drives the film on. The constant foreshadowing and hints of the future assure that the tension never lets up and the view is never able to be at ease. Something isn't right here. Even through all the partying and seeming happiness something darker lies just beneath the surface. It will not be all laughter and smiles. Something will go very wrong. This feeling is met with truth as the film unfolds. Korine uses erratic dubstep music and quick cuts to illustrate the ever decomposing attention span of today's youth, then slowly eases the film into a more lingering and abstract statement on the moral decay of society at large.Selena Gomez and Rachel Korine do well with what they have to work with. Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Benson and James Franco however knock their parts out of the park. In particular Hudgens and Franco.Hudgens' Candy is so disconnected from reality that when a friend who she's known since kindergarten is fearful for their lives and wants to go back home her first instinct is to roll her eyes. Her constant finger gun shooting is very telling. She wants to "have fun" and do whatever she wants no matter the cost. Life to her is a video game. A movie. Drugs, alcohol, mindless robbing, unlimited money and no consequences. Sound familiar? Almost like a description for the newest Grand Theft Auto video game. This is her perception. This is how she makes the world around her. This is her reality. A girl making out with another girl and dancing raunchy is considered edgy and when she sees this happening at a party her reaction is to gyrate around and scream in joy. Something that many girls would do as well, but this is only a small glimpse into her psyche. It's not the act that excites her it is the fact that it is edgy and considered by some to be wrong. Money excites her because of the power it brings with it. She, several times, becomes aroused in the presence of money. Of all the girls she is the one who seems to be the first and most accepting of Alien and his lifestyle. After Cotty has been shot and tells Brit and Candy that spring break is over Candy again seems to not care. Just as Faith wanting to go home this only interrupts Candy's fun. She just wants this annoyance to be over. Get back to the fun stuff. Get back to being bad."I always wanted to be bad." A statement made by Franco's Alien that completely defines his character. Guns, drugs, money and power are his American Dream. Alien's idea of having fun is robbing spring breakers and blowing tons of money at strip clubs. He is gangster rap fully realized and defined. As he tells the girls he is a hustler and a rapper. It is quite important that he lists them in that order. It's as if being a rapper comes with the territory of being a hustler and plays second fiddle to it. The idea that all gangsters and hustlers are also rappers means he has to be one as well. Music is not his first love nor why he does this. He just wants to be bad and rappers are "bad" so he must do it. Scarface is the ultimate bad guy so it plays on repeat in his house. He surrounds himself with what he sees as bad. The necessities of being a bad guy. Just as when he is explaining his back story he says it's the same old sob story. It doesn't matter. All that matters is being the baddest guy he can be. There doesn't have to be a reason why other than he simply wants to be. This is his ultimate downfall.Spring Breakers is worth seeing for Franco's performance alone. Hudgens performance, Harmony Korine's brilliant direction and hyper sensual style are just the icing on the cake. After seeing this for the second time it only got better. I expect the third time will only reveal more about this masterwork.10/10.

For layin out by the pool. Terrible acting, leering camera shots, bad constantly repeated dialog is all here but for some reason it just works. Movie feels like a fever dream and was captivated throughout. If you’ve ever seen any of Korine’s other movies you probably have an idea of what you’re gonna get here. Probably one of his more accessible movies really.Hope with A24 blowing up in recent years that they release a nicer edition of the film in the future. This release is typical of their earlier ones. Very barebones in packaging / features.

Don't get why people hate on this film. As soon as I saw the trailer on TV when it was it theatres I knew it had to be good. Unfortunately didn't see it then as I was 17. Fast forward 3/4 years later I regret not seeing it sooner.The cast is superb especially James Franco, who takes a break from starring in s***ty stoner films to give a performance that I can see in time will be the role which will define his career the same way Travis Bickle defined Robert De Niro's.And it's not just the cast that is perfection, the music, the cinematography, the acting all deserve a round of applause.

hmmmm that's a bit of very wasted viewing time

this film is ok if you want to see some skin but the story in ut is very weak

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Ok film... nice Blu-ray