Followed by the actual events, the teenager and his gang of fame-obsessed youths try to make a new destination by using the Internet. The mission began to track the whereabouts of celebrities, in order to rob their homes in this period. It seems that the gang firstly targeted Paris Hilton, Orlando Bloom, and Rachel Bilson as the early victims.
...Coppola definitely finds a captivating way of telling the tale. Her script and the performances give us something thought-provoking out of something superficial.
The sense of detachment that is a signature of Sofia Coppola's work -- the coolly distant, stylishly dreamlike way she regards her characters -- works to her detriment in The Bling Ring.
At best, the picture can be written off as some kind of failed experiment, a competition to see which cast member is the most in tune with his or her inner dolt.
Daring to face these often noxious, seemingly empty phenomena on aesthetic terms, and taking on a degree of their flatness and simplicity, Coppola renders them surprisingly substantial.
The Bling Ring is a comedy, a gentle (if thin) satire of fame-obsessed youths, and a canny probe into the ecosystem of LA's celeb culture and the weird influence it exerts on the rest of the population.
Antonioni watches too much TMZ in Sofia Coppola's detached portrait of hollowed-out youth culture.
Jason Bailey
Flavorwire
June 21, 2016
Coppola gives the events a bubbly potency, drawn to the attractive, greedy foolishness of the characters. They are, when it comes down to it, horrible, vapid people, yet the film doesn't view them purely as monsters, or as a sociological construct.
