But what’s beyond impressive is that Gomez’s involvement with “Spring Breakers” gives her the perfect opportunity to be connected with an R-rated project without compromising her family-friendly image. On the other hand, Gomez plays the appropriately-named Faith, a religious college student who has been friends with the other three leads “since kindergarten.” The pop star manages to only push the envelope by wearing a skimpy bikini, and theres is one scene where she is shown smoking marijuana from a bong. If you didn’t know she got her start singing about high school basketball games and the woes of teenage love, you might never have guessed. To her credit, Hudgens takes her role as Candy in “Spring Breakers” very seriously, and emerges as one of the film’s most convincingly deranged characters in the story of four college-aged girls who decide to resort to criminal activity to fund their spring break trip. And if you guessed Hudgens, you’d be correct.
Without giving away too much of this dizzying ode to excess, which was screened in New York last week ahead of its wide release, only one of the two girls decides to lose her on-screen purity for good. Yet in the trailer for Spring Breakers, it was purposely difficult to tell what’s what - if you’re looking to figure out whether Gomez and Vanessa ditch their good-girl images, it’s easy to assume, but hard to confirm, that they’ve embraced more adult film fare. It’s too easy to judge people and condemn people.Ukraine Favored at Eurovision Song Contest Amid War What they know or come up with their own feelings or forge their ownĬonnections? People get pissed when it’s not all one way, when People so scared of going to places where they’re forced to reconcile What to think all the time? Why can’t you just dream on it? Why are People get pissed at the film and stuff, and it’s like why doesĮverybody need it to deliver a message about really obvious things …ĭon’t you know that killing is bad? Why do you need me to tell you
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Yeah, I mean … it was never meant to be a documentary or an essay. It’s connected to the culture, and maybe there’s a zeitgeist in some World but pushed into something more kind of - I don’t know. It’s something that’s more like a pop poem, or almost like the real And it is more like a reinterpretation of those things. it was never meant to be a kind of documentary or an exposé on Very rarely are things so clearly defined. Things and bad people do good things, and there's beauty in horror and I purposefully try to make films in that grey area, where You hope that it has something that is emotionally confusing to "But this one is just amped up to ten." GQīut that's why you make films to provoke some kind of discourse. Says Korine, sucking on a strawberry in the London office of theįilm's PR agency. "I make films so there is a reaction and the reactions are extreme," From interviews with writer/director Harmony Korine about *Spring Breaker*s, it appears ambiguity and reaction were the goals rather than the delivery of a message:
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