Spring Breakers Movie

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Harmony Korine is a true artist. He is the same man who wrote the nihilistic cult film “Kids” (1995) Dir. Larry Clark. He has been described as a skate punk turned screenwriter. “Spring Breakers” is an avant-garde masterpiece yet it also did really well commercially, even though the general population missed its point and remained offended. The movie’s release was accompanied by such tweets as “absolutely disgusting soft-core porn” and “worst movie ever made”. It’s hard to believe that these people watched the same film that I did. “Kids”, though an undeniable classic offended the critics of it’s generation and then later gained cult status. Spring Breakers will most likely be praised in generations to come when the connection to “Kids” and the other Brechtian art films of Harmony Korine’s are exposed and the true horror of the …show more content…

In 1997 Korine directed the very strange independent film "Gummo", which didn't really have any scenario, just a presentation of a little town in Ohio and its very bizarre set of characters and the music of Roy Orbison. He also made other independent films, such as “Mister Lonely” about a Michael Jackson impersonator who visits a commune where residents imitate Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, the Three Stooges and others. With “Spring Breakers” Korine has gained much experience and it stands as his most accomplished work. Unfortunately by distributing this film with a poster and trailer that acted as a parody of the easy-selling films of Hollywood he gained a lot of criticism and hate. Instead of seeing the marketing as a parody the public took it seriously and assumed that this was a mother teen movie with elaborate action scenes. Most of these people go to the theatre looking for something to watch, not something to think about. The general public just isn’t used to his nihilistic

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