An indictment of the idiocy of those pesky Millenials. |
Let us turn our brains off for a moment: Spring Break isthe escape from the meandering and the mundane for misguided post-teens who just discovered cardboard
existentialism.
Of course it is all bullshit, and that
is kind of the point.
That's the message buried deep beneath all the crotch shots,
scantily clad displays of NUBILE FLESH (you guys!), and gun imagery
(Because Chekhov's gun, you guys!).
The story follows complete idiots who
have, at least legally, attained a degree of expected maturity in the
digital era. But they are so fucking out of control! Because society and immaturity, bro.
"Seeing all this money makes my
pussy wet," says Vanessa Hudgens' character after the girls
finally get their much needed cash to finance their existential
imperative, via robbing a diner no less. Because Spring Break. And proving once and for all that millenials can't
verbalize complex thoughts (double totes).
What follows is, again, a heavy handed
indictment of the stupid-ass post adolecents in one-too-many montages as they have a great deal of fun and power
trips to bad techno music.
If only that shit lasted forever, huh?
Enter James Franco
The fake grill adds to the artsy. |
So shit goes on where grown ups
monologue each other sounding like children, sexy time is had, and guns are fired. Also: expletives! So
this is, like, real dark shit, fellas. Deep stuff.
You know already know where this is
gonna end, even if you haven't seen it. You have seen this story in
countless other places that teaches you that if you are gonna have fun
and misbehave, the story gods from the older generation have to
punish your decadent ass in stupid fashion before gifting you a completely
illogical ending.
Now, what is good about this thing? The Imagery. Pretty pictures play on the screen continually, perfectly
colored, framed, and shot. A bunch of 'em. I'm positive you could
build an entire different narrative off of these and it might
actually turn better than whatever this was. Also,excising almost
most of its fluff could trim its total running time to half an hour, maybe
even less. Seems perfectly doable.
What results is more an exercise in
filmmaking than a film. It's as if somebody made a whole movie
entirely out of half baked ideas and fantastic cinematography,
suddenly realized what a bind he was in, and then stuffed it with
aggressive redundance disguised as ambiance.
This is the kind of thing that happens when somebody decides to tell the story of a bunch of people he doesn't understand.
To close:
"Just pretend it is a fucking
videogame!
You can't be scared of shit!
You have to be hard!
Just get this fucking money and go away
on Spring Break y'all!"
Speak the truth, sisters! Yeah...
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