Based on a true life 2009 crime spree documented in a Vanity Fair article by Nancy Jo Sales, The Bling Ring recounts the truly bizarre story of?a gang of wealthy teenage burglars who take their obsession with celebrity to the next level of fandom. Using celebrity gossip sites to track the whereabouts of their favourite famous personalities, and Google Maps to find out their addresses, ringleader Rebecca (Katie Chang), her submissive best friend Marc (Israel Broussard) and the rest of her rotating gang of bling ringers (including Emma Watson and Taissa Farmiga) are able to slip in?usually with the aid of an unlocked patio door or key left under the mat??shop? in the inevitably massive walk-in closet with adjoining shoe/jewellery room and slip back out undetected.
Using this simple game plan, they?re able to hit Paris Hilton?s house several times and also grab goodies from the likes of Megan Fox, Lindsay Lohan and Orlando Bloom?most of which they sell in order to fund their shopping and clubbing habits?all the while documenting their new rock star lifestyles on Facebook and Twitter. Is it any wonder that the police eventually catch on? The teens seem to think so, and that?s one of the most interesting points made by the film. These kids (and the celebrities they worship) have grown so accustomed to living their lives in public that they?re unprepared for how social media can turn around and bite them in the ass. Coppola has made a very ?of the moment? film that may well turn out to be the best document of the current trend of fetishizing celebrity and everyone?s seeming need to be famous in their own right.
Over the years I have come to realize that Sofia Coppola?s films are rather polarizing amongst cinephiles. As I was leaving this screening I overheard another critic say, ?I have yet to like a Sofia Coppola movie? ? this was interesting to me because at that exact same moment I was thinking, ?Will Sofia Coppola ever manage to produce a film that I don?t immediately adore??. Basically what I?m trying to say is that I?m clearly the sort of audience who loves her lackadaisical, uniquely California girl sensibility and take on pretty much every subject she tackles, but there are certainly people out there who simply will not appreciate it no matter what. Her films are not your cup of tea and that?s ok.
The Bling Ring is probably her least accessible film to date (although some may argue that Somewhere takes that prize) despite the fact that it has the most obvious and heavy handed moral of them all. Coppola has made the choice to relate the story in a coolheaded, non-judgmental manner that allows for the audience to really get inside the lives of the characters and experience the creepiness of what they?re doing as though they were there, trying on Paris Hilton?s dresses and swinging about on her stripper pole along with the bling ring. It?s this non-traditional and decidedly uncynical approach that yields such?an intriguingly intuitive and atmospheric movie yet it?s also this technique that might rub people the wrong way. In movies like this we?re used to seeing lots of drama as the gang of thieves eventually turn on one another and bring about their own downfall. Here, the teens are so disaffected that they?re too stunned and vacant to react the way we expect them to, which makes it all the more unsettling to watch.
Is The Bling Ring Opening Weekend Worthy?
Yes ? with reservations. If you haven?t liked Sofia Coppola movies in the past then this is not the movie that?s going to clue you in to what others see in her work. If you?re a fan or open to the possibility of what her films have to offer then The Bling Ring is certainly worth your cinema dollars this weekend.
The Bling Ring Trailer
The Bling Ring Production Gallery
Kristal Cooper has been a film buff since the age of two when her parents began sneaking her into the drive-in every weekend. Since then, she?s pursued that passion by working for the Toronto International Film Festival and the Canadian Film Centre as well as spending many a happy hour inside Toronto?s wonderful theatres (she still mourns the loss of The Uptown). She currently acts as Toronto Film Scene?s Editor-in-Chief, is a freelance writer specializing in pop culture and feminist issues, and continues to slog away at her day job as a small cog in the giant machinery of the Toronto film community.
Source: http://thetfs.ca/2013/06/21/review-the-bling-ring/
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