With a paparazzi flash and a Valencia-hued glare, it peeks into the world of the super rich, super privileged, super ugly. Call it the original brat summer
. It was the year of the selfie. The year Kanye proposed to Kim. The year Lorde ruptured the charts with a fantasy of rococo wealth and Grey Goose. The Bling Ring not only captured this zeitgeist but also predicted the long-term effects of social media’s Valencia-hued glare on celebrity culture. And how did Coppola do this? She took us back to 2008.
Sign up for the fun stuff with our rundown of must-reads, pop culture and tips for the weekend, every Saturday morning Despite her signature eye for beauty, The Bling Ring is perhaps Coppola’s ugliest film. Beneath the digital jag and fluorescent beams of club neon, Coppola narrows her focus on to the ecosystem in which the ring were born and bred – immensely privileged, but still on the fringes of ‘true’ celebrity.
The Bling Ring, suitably, closes on Watson’s vacant stare, promoting a website where she will tell her “side of the story”. When stealing fails, we can always turn to that most lucrative of products: ourselves. The Bling Ring is available to rent on iTunes and Amazon in Australia and the UK, and is streaming on Max in the US. For more recommendations of what to stream in Australia,
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