The Bling Ring is an example of a teen film, this is because there are themes that you would find in a teen film such as love, friendships, cliques and teenagers and peer pressure. Also the settings where the film where filmed in such as the high school and the parties the Bling Ring visited. At the beginning of the movie the first character introduced is Marc who is an outsider and new to school then becomes friends with Rebecca who becomes the ring leader of Bling Ring.
Some of the conventions that make this film a teen drama is very materialistic and focused on fashion and clothing rather than the wider world. Marc and Rebecca who are two of the main characters attend a school where teenagers have been kicked out of mainstream schools. In the film Marc becomes reluctant after breaking into homes however Rebecca tells him its ok to go on a robbing spree so Marc is feeling very peer pressured, this is one of the problems that most teenagers face nowadays. As the film goes on Rebecca wants to constantly break into a-list stars homes, because she like fashion and wants to be like them and she wants to be in the fashion industry breaking into the homes becomes a hunger for her. Fashion is an icon to many teenagers and living the high life of designer clothing and bags is a factor that teenagers battle nowadays. There is use of drugs in this film that is also a factor that teenagers battle. Marc and Rebecca form a clique with three other girls, they become very popular, this is very similar to the other typical cliques that you would find in a typical teen movie. For example the 'mean girls' who are popular at school who have the latest clothes and gadgets, the Bling Ring are the same they have the top designer clothes and jewellery and their friends around want to have that same lifestyle.
The film is very different to other teen films because in a typical teen movie there is always a happy ending, but this film shows that it not always a happy ending as they are all arrested and have to pay a fine for the damage they have caused. Marc in this film was an outcast but then became popular, this is a typical convention of a teen drama the outcast becoming popular. this has happened in other films such as Twilight, High School Musical ,Camp Rock and Mean Girls.
The film portrays social networking as a big influence to teenagers as they are constantly on different social networking sites and they can display their everyday life on these sites and have loads of friend request on these sites makes them look popular. The film also portrays that teenagers look up to celebrities as their role model and want to be like their favourite star or see them as a fashion icon and want to wear what the celebrities are wearing.
I did not enjoy this film as I thought it was very repetitive, it was just them breaking into different homes of famous celebrities and it also did not have a happy ending like you would get in other films. This film was not your typical teen drama.
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