Seeking the “most vacuous movie of 2013?” Look no further
than The Bling Ring, about a group of lost high-schoolers that breaks into
the celebrity mansions of Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, Orlando Bloom, and
others.
The film is based on a true story captured as a feature in
Vanity Fair magazine. I suspect it would have been more enjoyable in that
format, but thankfully the movie version is relatively short.
And it's only 90 minutes for a reason. There just wasn't really much there. None of the characters
seem to have anything interesting about them or back stories that warrant the
movie treatment.
It’s surprising that Sophia Coppola decided to showcase
these losers, and it’s definitely surprising she didn’t dig up more dirt to flesh out the story. But it’s also possible she wanted to simply show how narcissistic these
people are as a statement on today’s TMZ culture in the U.S.
All that said, The Bling Ring is a significant fall from
grace from the way Coppola started out her directing career, with The Virgin
Suicides and Lost in Translation.
**1/2 out of ***** stars
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