“Spring Breakers” Harmony Korine confidently depicts “the end of escapism”

Where will you end up if you keep going against everyday life?

However, the Alien played by Franco prefaces Britney by saying, ``If there's an angel on earth, it's her,'' and begins singing ``Everytime.'' Then, in the evening, the three female college students (one of whom has already dropped out) sing together and share a moment of twilight. This is one of the most beautiful moments in the film, when the magical hour light surrounds them.

In other words, the college girls in Spring Breakers know from the beginning that even if they become famous celebrities and are admired by people all over the world, there is no such thing as paradise. What they love is not a happy celebrity living in a dreamlike world. Rather, shouldn't we think that Britney is deeply hurt and exposing her dark side?

They are trying to experience the ultimate party, but they know that there is only one dead end. However, even if they cross the line, they won't stop playing silly pranks. Even if what awaits us is destruction, we can no longer live in boring stagnation.

The last two female college students drive their sports car in the opposite direction from where their former best friends were returning to their hometowns by bus. Their faces were no longer bright. Does this represent the end of spring break = the end of youth, or is it an expression of determination to keep going forever? That will be for each person who sees this movie to decide.

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By the way, after ``Spring Breakers,'' Harmony Korine is revisiting the theme of ``escape from reality'' in her next film. This is another party movie that goes more relaxed than radical, ` `The Beach Bum '' (2019), which is like twins with different personalities, so please watch and compare. .

One last thing. In the novel `` Azumi Haruko is Missing '', which was made into a movie in 2016, author Mariko Yamauchi used ``Spring Breakers'' as a symbol of rural girls defying reality and breaking through. ). I empathize with Mariko Yamauchi in that she found hope in this bizarre youthful fantasy filled with sex and violence, which is false, dark, and urgent.

Text: Akira Murayama

Born in 1971. Writes articles for magazines, newspapers, movie sites, etc. Representative of “ShortCuts,” a review site for distribution-based works.

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