unicorns II

and the second thing i've read on spring breakers. i am so so glad that there are such badass smart women writing about this film. i was nervous, while i watched it in a packed theatre that would cheer boorishly at all the t&a, that so much of what would be (has been) written would be either 'AHHHH! sexploitation!' or 'wooooooooooooo! BABES!'. which would very much be missing the point, yes? yes.

"It’s like Now and Then, except instead of saving up for a tree house, 

they rob a chicken shack to fund their spring break. Instead of riding bicycles and stealing boys’ clothes from the lake, they roll with a drug dealer and make off with a pink Lamborghini. It’s Korine’s pervy and pyretic ode to teensploitation movies, a twisted take on Godard’s idea that “all you need for a movie is a gun and a girl”—a gun and a girl in a bikini, that is."

 {durga chew-bose for hazlit}