Film Review – The Bling Ring

“The Bling Ring” is not a film where the audience is meant to understand
the characters, to peek behind the behavioral curtain to comprehend
corrupt impulses. It’s an atmospheric picture, wallowing in indifference
and cheap thrills to showcase the mummification of a generation raised
on celebrity culture, caffeine, and permissive parenting. “The Bling
Ring” doesn’t possess a death grip of judgment I’m sure most would like
from this depiction of millennial lunacy, yet writer/director Sofia
Coppola makes a more convincing argument for condemnation through
observation, watching dim children willingly engage in illegal
activities, incapable of showing remorse. That’s chilling enough.
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