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Absolutely brilliant mash-up: ‘Spring Breakers’ vs. ‘Girls’
03.23.2013
04:31 am
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Absolutely brilliant mash-up: ‘Spring Breakers’ vs. ‘Girls’

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As a fan of Harmony Korine’s over-the-top, raunchy, apocalyptic fun fest Spring Breakers and Lena Dunham’s brilliant TV series Girls, I unreservedly dig this mash-up put together by The Hollywood Reporter. By bouncing the unselfconscious, anything goes, fuck you approach of Korine’s film off the the over-analytical, to the point of paralysis, psycho-babbling Girls we end up with a third entity: hipster gangsta angsta.

They’ll be plenty of people hatin’ on Spring Breakers. I say ignore them. The movie is pure trash of a very sublime sort (purity is in short supply these days). Imagine a Girls Gone Wild video directed by Gaspar Noe and Godard. Harmony Korine’s critique of reality TV, gangsta shit and pop culture’s commodification of tweenybopper celebs is as scattershot as the gunfire at the movie’s climax, but when it hits its target it draws blood. Beach Blanket Bingo for the comfortably numb.

Since when did THP get into the mash-up business? I had no idea they had this level of coolness in them.
 

Posted by Marc Campbell
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03.23.2013
04:31 am
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