A modestly made film with some of the most repulsive young
women you will ever see in a
contemporary
movie.
The plot is simple and
small.
4 young pretty college girls
want to go on a spring break holiday, but they don’t have enough money, so
three of them who would be right at home playing the witches in Macbeth steal a
teacher’s car and with fake plastic guns and those scary ski masks storm off
into the night to rob a fast food joint and with the stolen loot they are soon
off to St. Petersburg where the boys are. As I said 3 of these bimbos (and
that’s what they are) are nasty pieces of work, while the 4
th one,
aptly named Faith is the only decent girl in the group. Faith who is also the
only non-blonde is played by Selena Gomez, who although she goes along for the
ride has doubts, conflicts and confusion because of her religious beliefs and
her basic decency. That she would even go along with these 3 is one of the
movie’s plot flaws, regardless of peer pressure.
While the film is sexual, (it hovers over everything) there is
actually very little of it in the film, and most of it when it happens is girl
on girl action. There is also a scene where James Franco has forced oral sex
with the barrel of a gun.
The kids are
more into drugs, drinking and violence, which comes and goes in various degrees
of nastiness and absurdness. The most fun part of the film for me is when the
four of them wind up in jail dressed only in their well worn bikinis and are
bailed out and rescued
(if that’s the
right word for it) by a low life rapper, gangster and drug dealer by the name
of Alien played with robust off the wall charm and dread by James Franco who is
decked out in tattoos grillz and long cornrows, he’s like a long lost relative
of the pimp played by Harvey Keitel in Taxi Driver, the wolf in this very grim
fairytale.
The director/writer Harmony
Korine has a good eye and with his excellent cinematographer Benoit Debie fills
the screen in bright crayon box colors of withering male and female bodies,
crowded beaches, pools and destroyed hotel rooms crowded with drunken young men
and women being totally disgusting and repulsive. Now I know that this behavior
is nothing new and I’m really in no position to be judgmental as I recall a
rip- roaring few days that I had when I was in college at the now gone Concord
Hotel in the Catskills. The film ends with an explosive burst of far-fetched
violence and believe or not most of the cast might live happily ever after or
somewhat close to it.
Or maybe not.
A modestly made film with some of the most repulsive young
women you will ever see in a contemporary
movie. The plot is simple and
small. 4 young pretty college girls
want to go on a spring break holiday, but they don’t have enough money, so
three of them who would be right at home playing the witches in Macbeth steal a
teacher’s car and with fake plastic guns and those scary ski masks storm off
into the night to rob a fast food joint and with the stolen loot they are soon
off to St. Petersburg where the boys are. As I said 3 of these bimbos (and
that’s what they are) are nasty pieces of work, while the 4th one,
aptly named Faith is the only decent girl in the group. Faith who is also the
only non-blonde is played by Selena Gomez, who although she goes along for the
ride has doubts, conflicts and confusion because of her religious beliefs and
her basic decency. That she would even go along with these 3 is one of the
movie’s plot flaws, regardless of peer pressure. While the film is sexual, (it hovers over everything) there is
actually very little of it in the film, and most of it when it happens is girl
on girl action. There is also a scene where James Franco has forced oral sex
with the barrel of a gun. The kids are
more into drugs, drinking and violence, which comes and goes in various degrees
of nastiness and absurdness. The most fun part of the film for me is when the
four of them wind up in jail dressed only in their well worn bikinis and are
bailed out and rescued (if that’s the
right word for it) by a low life rapper, gangster and drug dealer by the name
of Alien played with robust off the wall charm and dread by James Franco who is
decked out in tattoos grillz and long cornrows, he’s like a long lost relative
of the pimp played by Harvey Keitel in Taxi Driver, the wolf in this very grim
fairytale. The director/writer Harmony
Korine has a good eye and with his excellent cinematographer Benoit Debie fills
the screen in bright crayon box colors of withering male and female bodies,
crowded beaches, pools and destroyed hotel rooms crowded with drunken young men
and women being totally disgusting and repulsive. Now I know that this behavior
is nothing new and I’m really in no position to be judgmental as I recall a
rip- roaring few days that I had when I was in college at the now gone Concord
Hotel in the Catskills. The film ends with an explosive burst of far-fetched
violence and believe or not most of the cast might live happily ever after or
somewhat close to it. Or maybe not. 
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