From Spring Breakers to Zola, on-screen girlhood in the Sunshine State always equals trouble – but why? clairehly investigates
you’re enveloped in an atmosphere so sticky that a film of sweat forming on the laptop screen would seem appropriate. Like, the 2012 film depicts a road trip across Florida with an ambiguous purpose that eventually reveals itself as something darker; unlikethe snappy Twitterfied dialogue is reduced to flat, elliptical exchanges between two lovers on the run, often stated in voiceover.
Seimetz’s instinct for her location’s mercurial appeal comes from her own Tampa upbringing, and a period of “hanging out in seedy bars” as she wrote the screenplay. But for other directors, Florida becomes source material in a more factual sense, through True Crime accounts that capitalise on its mythology.
, “There is no doubt a parallel universe in this same suburb, filled with happy, creative, intelligent people and endless opportunities – there always is – but these kids are off that map.”For the lighter side of teen girl crime, look to former Clark protégé Harmony Korine and his.
Any of Korine’s chicks would fit in easily with the travelling sales boys and girls of Andrea Arnold’s. A road trip with a “mag crew” through the endless plains of the American Midwest with a gang of hedonistic teenagers, the film also has its own Florida origin story, with Arnold’s lead actress Sasha Lane being first discovered by the director during her own spring break.
In the canon of Florida-set comings-of-age on film, the most successful confront those stereotypes and take them somewhere new, like’s exposure of a culture that creates youth so disaffected that violence quickly fills the gap where hope used to be; or’s takedown of the idea that there is anything sexy about a cross-state murder spree.
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