The Bling Ring

The Bling Ring (TBR) is a teen film because of the teenage characters, high-school setting and the themes of fame, clothing, money and glamour. 

It reflects the materialistic world American teenagers either tend to live in or tend to want to live in. It also could portray that in modern culture, the only way to get noticed in Hollywood is by how you look, not anything else. The 'Bling Ring' are represented differently to other cliques in other teen films; often in teen films, the rich, fashionable, popular group always start out that way, whereas in TBR, the clique have to steal to have the 'rich, fashionable, popular' status that they want.

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and that there isn't really a happy ending. There are no typical themes (e.g. romance, violence, etc.) in TBR, which will make it difficult for teenagers (and some adults) to find it entertaining. 



Marc Hall, the protagonist, is firstly portrayed as being an outsider, 'the new boy' in a school for bad kids, but is then sucked into a group of the main, but antagonists characters. Very similar to Cady Heron from Mean Girls, although TBR goes a bit step further by going into burglary and crime, something more serious than just bitchiness and fights over boys and popularity status. 


The Bling Ring shows social networking can be used for bad (finding out celebrities' addresses) and is easy for the police to track down criminals. It could also represent modern stars as being glamourous, but they really do lack in their housing security...

My verdict. I found TBR boring, it was very repetitive 'let's go rob Paris Hilton...let's go rob Paris again!...let's go rob a Victoria Secret model...' I'm sure if there was more time in the film they would've robbed the whole of Hollywood. Maybe even America. The only thing that made the film 'alive' is that it's based on a true story.



Also, I could not stand Emma Watson's American accent.