Writer / Director: Sofia Coppola (LOST IN TRANSLATION)
Cast: Emma Watson, Katie Chang, Leslie Mann
Coming to a theatre near you: 6/21/13
If you are like me, you have seen the posters for THE BLING
RING, but do not have the slightest idea of the movie’s premise. (If not, skip to the next paragraph.) THE BLING RING is based on real events reported by Nancy Jo Sales in a Vanity Fair article, about a group of high schoolers, who rob celebrities’ houses by tracking their out-of-town dates
through celebrity blogs.
Writer / director, Sofia Coppola is not too interested in
character development or criminalizing the culprits. Instead, she draws parallels between the
lives of these n’er do gooders and the lives of the reality stars and B-list
celebrities who were victims in the robberies.
Coppola points to some uncanny similarities and threads them throughout the film.
Therein lies the most interesting part of the story. Stars put a face to aspirational living and would have us believe it comes with golden-handcuffs because
they trade their privacy in for it. Critics
would say: “Don’t complain about your loss of privacy
because you signed up for that when you decided to become a star.”
But don’t we Average Joe’s and Jane’s do the same? We create Facebook profiles and use “friend
request” and “delete” like velvet ropes.
We tweet the most menial thoughts we have to the most profound and Instagram
our dinner. Then we demand that these
sites, which we have volunteered our information to, respect our privacy.
Thus the lines between the celebrity and the layman have become blurred
because the barrier of entry to super-stardom is at an all-time
low. We are all one sex-tape, heckle of
a public figure or Youtube-clip away from TMZ following us to our cars. Naturally
in the end, that’s exactly what happens to the kids in this film. Success?
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