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James Franco, as the rapper Alien, is introduced, and in the film’s greatest perversion, at one point he drinks a 32 oz bottle and an 18 oz can of Natural Light at the same time. Coke comes out and Gomez, seeing the way things are headed, bounces so too does Korine. The on-screen Korine lays on her back in a bikini taunting juiced-up dudes in a scene that ripples with sexual menace. A young man rips a bong with a turkey carcass on his head.

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Korine, who has said the movie was a way to vicariously live the sort of spring break that he was too busy skateboarding to enjoy, embraces almost improvisatory setpieces. Pete, things go increasingly off the rails. They wield squirt guns with deceptive authority at the denizens of a diner in a heist we watch take place from the getaway car, nervously listening to Nicki Minaj. Petersburg as a necessary escape from their dead-end college town and see robbery as the only way to get there.

The director’s wife, Rachel Korine, plays the fourth part of a quartet of college students who see a blowout week in St. Vanessa Hudgens was fresh from a trio of High School Musicals Selena Gomez had just wrapped her fourth season of Wizards Of Waverly Place Ashley Benson had backflipped from the fourth Bring It On to a role in Pretty Little Liars. Spring Breakers felt like an unlikely pop pivot upon release, but looks increasingly like his masterpiece, and one of the finest neo-noirs of this millennium. Moviestore/Shutterstockīut it was when Korine viewed his familiar obsessions through the prism of young women rather than young men that his capacity for shock became most potent-and artful. One irrefutable fact about Spring Breakers? It has a perfect, undeniable cast. That film and its immediate successors established Korine’s reputation as an artist exploring the far contours of American decline, the way its boys were goaded toward violence and its elders lay breathing and forgotten in back-rooms.

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After writing the mid-90s lightning-rod Kids, which follows a group of New York teenagers as they skateboard, do drugs, and have sex with varying degrees of consent, Korine turned his attention to middle America with the elliptical Gummo, full of dead cats and spaghetti. Korine had to that point specialized in provocation. Is this what pleasure does to people? The movie makes its intentions clear with its opening montage-the only thing more depraved than the slow-motion images of half-naked beachgoers pouring beer on each other is the Skrillex drops soundtracking them.

What we saw onscreen felt familiar enough but warped, like friends’ faces on the third night of a bachelor party. The first time I saw Spring Breakers, writer-director Harmony Korine’s seedy beach noir currently celebrating its tenth birthday, was as God intended: on my friend’s PlayStation 3, either before or after a night in various bleating, lurid bars.

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