Spring Breakers Was Not Just An Excuse To See Hot Girls In Bikinis
One of the most misleading trailers of all-time belongs to Spring Breakers. And the same can really be said about its entire marketing campaign. But then again, that’s exactly why the film is so damn brilliant.
Judging by the trailer, you’d think that Spring Breakers was an excuse to see hot girls running around with little to no clothing on. And while we did get a lot of that, we also got a biting social commentary on the recklessness of youth. Admittedly, most of that probably went way over the heads of many of those in the audience, but for those who picked up on it, it was a welcome surprise.
As our own Jonathan Lack said:
Spring Breakers is easily one of the best and smartest films of 2013, a movie that picks apart the myth of young adult individuality by showing how the things young people turn towards in search of making sense of the world – drinking, drugs, reckless sex, and even violence – are intensely subsuming and dehumanizing, with James Franco’s Alien, one of the year’s very best character evocations, standing in as the disturbing end result of it all.
So yes, while the trailers may have been misleading, they were misleading in a good way, cleverly hiding the true purpose behind this brilliant film.