'The Bling Ring': luridly compelling cautionary tale of Sofia Coppola

Few filmmakers working today to create an atmosphere like Sofia Coppola. His beautiful first film from 1999 "The Virgin Suicides" of "Lost in Translation", "Marie Antoinette" and "Somewhere," Coppola proved a rare filmmaker willing to overthrow the tyranny of the narrative structure and tidy three acts instead of taking advantage of the film industry for its rich textures,miu miu bag references and expressionistic visual depth. Coppola brings this poetic "The Bling Ring", a cautionary tale to young Unleashed today, that for all its ripped-from-the-headlines news, still breathing a dream, the scent of the other world. Based on the story disguised a group of teenagers from Los Angeles and robbed the homes of Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan and other celebrities, type "The Bling Ring" in the same fear and terror voyeuristic characterized in that teenage problem over the decades: Whether bikes, street gangs, marijuana or sexuality, there has never been a cultural fear that the film could not be treated Entertainment alternately dark and scolding. Today, of course, our concerns about the technology - both for what kids are doing it with and how it affects the frontal lobe malleable with their moral training centers yet. In addition, the proximity of celebrities and media culture through the unjust dependence photos of other people out stuff and get "The Bling Ring", as the cooling of a portrait of amorality as a teenager more alarmist B-movie 1950 from the years, but much more beautiful pictures and the best music. From the end - with Bling ring member Nicki (Emma Watson) must be tried ditzily announcement that his life of crime "a huge learning lesson for me," was - "The Bling Ring" on flashing as it all began in Los Angeles s' beige, featureless San Fernando Valley. A bored student named Rebecca (Katie Chang) meets a new boy named Marc inadequate (Israel Broussard), which proves that he knows is fast Miu Miu and hair extensions. Soon he was comprises part of the cast of Rebecca, who Nicki, her best friend-slash-sister, Sam (Taissa Farmiga) and Chloe (Claire Julien), all wrote in the rhetoric of self-esteem, autonomy and the world selfie centered narcissistic Facebook and its satellite. Powered by the free-flowing alcohol, weed and Adderall that mom Nicki every morning passed as corn flakes, children recognize that, thanks to Web sites like TMZ gossip, they can understand if some famous people from the city, with GPS and Google Maps, they can just as easily find where they live. And now the stars are not like us - they do not lock their doors - and it was not long before Rebecca and Marc open thread their friends on a series of robberies of millions of dollars of clothing, jewelry, and household items. The flights take a monotone gray in "The Bling Ring" - a scene in the home of the real life of Hilton, left altar of his character, where the pads are placed with his picture - loses punch the thieves come back and still (probably did not notice his possessions were gone early). And the characters are so flat, without self-consciousness or true soul, it is difficult to sustain the interest of their exploits. Take a hard look exhausted their rage is only with Marc Broussard with vulnerability deserves sympathy. Nicki Watson in turn could be a satirical character in the form of the brilliant Nicole Kidman in "To Die For", but it is easy to make and lip gloss - be suitable for the actual person who plays, but strenuous repetitive anyway. But Coppola has no sense of irony and contempt of a scathing comment. Instead, considered, and is thus able to find the unlikely transcendence. Best moment of the movie, filmed in the late filmmaker Harris Savides, a documented flight in a night shot captured through the hills a glass house in which two thieves steal the interior decorating in a quiet, strangely beautiful pantomime. "The Bling Ring" is full of such visual richness, recalling "Marie Antoinette" in lush arrangements of material objects and stunning locations. But for all the bravery Coppola with images, it is called the means of assessing his rebellious protagonist. (As for "Antoinette", the viewer sometimes wonders if Coppola materialism and ruthlessness, has decried that chronic or intervene in it.) If the director throws in "The Bling Ring", is squarely addressed his parents, they are ahead, with their children in classes and auditions, or as the New Age-y single mother Leslie Mann, home school their children in a curriculum based on the book by self-help action "The Secret." The dark irony of "The Bling Ring" is that, while compulsively documenting their crimes on social media, the thieves become even famous (at a time when Mark compares the ring for a modern Bonnie and Clyde) and fame turned out, their his downfall.Miu Miu handbag As an attractive space lambent mirror, "The Bling Ring" makes the venality of celebrity culture training Wreck, effort and self-deception to dramatize a fact that as it is so delicious depressing: If a member of the Bling Ring goes to jail, sharing a cell block with another young woman recently arrested for stealing, and that is Lindsay Lohan herself.