Analysis of The Bling Ring
March 23, 2014 Stories, visualsbling ring, celebrity, emma watson, events, images, paris hilton, semiotics, the bling ringChristina Maxwell View all 2 comments
If you're looking for a movie that captures the essence of celebrity-obsession, Sofia Coppola's (daughter of famed director Francis Ford Coppola) led The Bling Ring certainty tops that list. The movie, released last summer, is based on the real life crimes of a group of Los Angeles teenagers who broke into the homes of a slew of A-list celebrities including Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton, Rachel Bilson and Megan Fox. While the real buglers are spending time behind bars and still in the midst of a lengthy probation, the movie became not only fodder for the actual crime, but allowed for a satirical look—while not violent in nature, still an invasion of privacy, but planned (by these teenagers) for the purposes of obtaining expensive clothing and jewelry. As movie critic Richard Roeper called Emma Watson's portrayal of Alexis Neiers "comedic gold", while on the surface, Watson isn't playing the role of a cartoon character leaping over fences, skinning knees, cracking jokes and misleading officers about her identity when confronted at the home she shares with her mother and father and her two sisters, her character is simply oblivious to reality, as she truly thinks she means what she says.
Emma Watson in The Bling Ring (Source: NextMovie)
I thought the dichotomy of this movie allowed for a bit more interpretation on my end.