The sad thing is that, although Coppola focuses on people who seem like they were invented on a screenwriter's word processor, they're strongly based on real individuals (the factual events occurred in 20), and it's hard to judge who's more vile and clueless: the perpetrators or their victims. ![]() Watching The Bling Ring is akin to going through the looking glass. Spending time with these loathsome, self-absorbed individuals, none of whom has a single endearing characteristic, is an ordeal. All the characters are shallow and one-dimensional and, while one can argue that this is the point, it doesn't make for 90 minutes of engaging cinema. The problem isn't the depiction of the underside of America's celebrity obsession but the manner in which it is represented. ![]() Watching The Bling Ring, Sofia Coppola's exploration of today's "celebrity culture," is an uncomfortable - bordering on unpleasant - experience.
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