Sofia Coppola's 'The Bling Ring' is possibly one of the best movies ever made about 'shallowness'. Fictionalized, I think for partially legal and partially creative reasons, the movie is based on the true story of a group of young people in the L.A. area, who broke into and robbed celebrity homes when they read that they were out of town. The group got away with this for almost a year before being brought in after a massive investigation, I think in all they go away with something like four million dollars worth of merchandise.
The young cast in anchored by Emma Watson, cast against type, and also features Katie Change, Taissa Farmiga, and Israel Brossard. The movie also contains cameos of the very celebrities the group stole from, including Paris Hilton, and Coppola muse Kristin Dunst. These robberies took place in 2008-2009 so it looks even more shallow in hindsight, seeing no longer that relevant stars like Lindsey Lohan and Rachel Bilsson gushed over by these hollow, hollow kids, so shallow and self absorbed it's like they hadn't really considered that what they were doing was wrong, or that by posting it all over social media they was gonna get caught.
Can't think of anything else quite like this movie, it's a picture of a very specific type of person at a very specific time and place. More interesting then I expected it would be. ***
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