Spring break for students is representative of absolute escalation in the USA. Sun, sex and booze – preferably somewhere where the sun is shining and the sea is only a few meters away from the cheap accommodation.
In the movie Spring Breakers, a group of girlfriends head to Florida for just that kind of explosive break. But what they experience there exceeds even their wildest imagination culminating in one of the best movie scenes everwithout which a particular social media platform might have looked a little different.
Spring Breakers is currently available to stream on Amazon as part of Freevee*’s free offering. I will now explain to you why this is absolutely worthwhile.
Don’t miss it on Amazon: That’s what Spring Breakers is all about
Directed by Harmony Korine, Spring Breakers was released in 2012 and followed college girls Brit (Ashley Benson), Candy (Vanessa Hudgens), Cotty (Rachel Korine) and Faith (Selena Gomez) on a short vacation to St. Petersburg — that’s in Florida, not Belarus . In order to be able to afford the trip at all, they rob a restaurant in their hometown and feel really strong and dangerous for the first time.
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Arriving in Florida, the 4 friends immediately have problems with the police
Arriving in Florida, after a drug-heavy party, they meet the drug dealer Alien (James Franco), who quickly involves them in his business. But it’s not just the friendship between the four young women that is endangered. The holiday turns more and more into a nightmare. First only for their victims, finally also for the gun-wielding students.
As BBC.com critics 2016 about the 100 best films of the 21st century voted, Spring Breakers ended up in 74th place. The Moviepilot editorial team voted the film 2020 in 8th place of the 100 best films of the last 10 years. On the internet, however, the film achieved a completely different kind of fame – and landed on my radar as well.
The best scene in Spring Breakers combines Disney stars, guns and Britney Spears
In the early 2010s I spent a lot of time on Tumblr, a social media platform that allows users to fill their customized blog pages with text, videos or photos. Hundreds of fandoms are formed here, which help series like Supernatural or stars like Benedict Cumberbatch from the niche into the pop culture mainstream – or at least play a not inconsiderable part in their increasing success. And right here, for the first time, I see an image I just can’t scroll past: three women in pink unicorn balaclavas dancing with shotguns and assault rifles. A scene like from a serial killer’s poetry album.
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When I first see that moment from Spring Breakers, it feels like I’m being electrocuted right in the middle of my chest. The scene shows young women who have found their own way of reconciling vulnerability and the desire to finally be taken seriously. How tenderly Candy, Britt and Cotty swing the bulky weapons in their arms and threaten people with those same weapons in counter cuts, while Britney Spears sings with a cracking voicehow weak and alone she feels – that is really great art.
Spring Breakers is all over Tumblr back then. The aesthetic of showing attractive women with masked faces (and some kind of scary accessory) is copied. By professional photographers whose images are uploaded to Tumblr blogs without credit and then shared tens, hundreds of thousands of times. But also from normal millennials between 15 and 30 who want to feel as sexy, as powerful as Disney star Vanessa Hudgens and her companions in the Florida evening sun.
Tumblr is now considered dead, but the magic of this movie scene remains. Spring Breakers is millennial escapism between self-empowerment and self-destruction – the perfect metaphor for my generation.
More streaming in the podcast: Is the Netflix subscription still worth it?
Popular series are being discontinued, password sharing is being prevented and prices are increasing: In this episode of the stream browsing podcast, we therefore ask ourselves the question: Is the Netflix subscription still worth it?
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We present the arguments for and against Netflix, explain the current price structure and the measures against account sharing. We also take a look at the attractive content that the streaming service still offers and thus arrive at the answer: to unsubscribe or not?
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