The Bling ring is a typically teen film as it follows the codes and convection of a teen film as it includes the different types of characters such as the outsider , rebel, dumb popular girl etc. It also is set in a high school and typical teenage locations such as the classroom , beach , shopping mall and others
The film does well in portraying the materialism and how fashion obsessed our youth is and how we care more about looking good and what people think about us rather than the bigger picture such world hunger and poverty, also it shows a dark side of how teenagers in today's society are driven mad and crave for this 'popularity ' and the 'lime light'.
The clique is represented as a group of teenage girls that are seen as popular to people but to themselves they think they need to reach to the same level as celebrities, also there are a group of 4 girls which you typically see in teen films with them normally consisting of a leader , rebel and the good looking girl but however a guy who is seen as an outsider is brought into the group which we rarely see within teen films but it is also shown he is a homosexual which makes it easier to develop relationships with these girls as if he where a heterosexual it would cause a sexual tension with the girls in the group.
The Bling ring differs from a lot of teen films as we now live in a new era of youth with teenagers now being able to access drugs and alcohol more easily in which case the film shows the use of it, while the film is still in the genre of teenage film it follows into the movie genre of films like oceans eleven and the bank job but the films manages to dull it down to a teenage level. Also the film exaggerates the hunger that youth crave for fashion and popularity compared to films like 'Mean girls'.
The boy is portrayed as an outsider who has no friends and is seen as quiet until he is brought into the clique of the girls where he develops character and shows what he is really like which is very similar to the girl (played by Lindsay lohan) in mean girls as she is an outsider that has nothing in common with the popular girls but until she is noticed by them and brought into the group she starts to become more like them and develop friendships with them.
The Bling ring shows a lot of social networking with sites such as Facebook in which case this is how the teenagers get convicted by posting pictures of themselves with the stolen items to seem more popular against their peers .In addition the film also focuses on celebrities like Lindsay lohan by showing them through media and news channels and their involvement with the teenage thefts as this is what motivated them to commit the crimes .Lastly consumerism is used to show how the group robbed clothes to make themselves more popular.
Overall i enjoyed the film as it was able to show me the dark side of how teenagers are almost corrupted by clothes and fashion and also their representation of themselves.
The Bling ring shows a lot of social networking with sites such as Facebook in which case this is how the teenagers get convicted by posting pictures of themselves with the stolen items to seem more popular against their peers .In addition the film also focuses on celebrities like Lindsay lohan by showing them through media and news channels and their involvement with the teenage thefts as this is what motivated them to commit the crimes .Lastly consumerism is used to show how the group robbed clothes to make themselves more popular.
Overall i enjoyed the film as it was able to show me the dark side of how teenagers are almost corrupted by clothes and fashion and also their representation of themselves.
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