FREE ON CINEGEEK.DE Britney Spears - Crossroads
I have never been particularly interested in the "Free Britney" movement. Until today, when excerpts of Spear's testimony appeared on the record in the Times. Now I am very much interested in how it can be that a person has to take medication against their will and be locked away for more than a decade? Then I searched for Spear's feature film Crossroads and was pleasantly surprised. Crossroads is far from a bad film! "I'm Not A Girl, Not Yet a Woman." It's really not easy growing up. Spears famously never succeeded. Her entire career functioned as an extended adolescence. She was a child star in the Mickey Mouse Club, precocious schoolgirl pop star, then a punchline in the gossip columns of repulsive magazines, and finally the ward of her own father's tutelage. When Spears was just 20, she sang "Not A Girl." Of course, critics at the time trashed her film; but fans knew better. It almost seems like a revelation when Spears belts out her song at the climax of the film! Crossraods is a cute coming of age story about three girls. They cross the southern states of the USA in search of what is called "being grown up". They're threatened by a guy who everyone wrongly thinks of as a bad boy. The stuff of many a teenager's dreams! And wasn't it really a cursed era for young girls back then? In Crossroads, everything is pastel. The colours of Britney Spears. With eyeshadow, mica and endless cleavage. This is what the boom of misogynistic pop star culture and uncomfortably sexualised female singers looked like. Fortunately, Crossroads escapes this trap. Crossroads shows serious sympathy for the problems of the three girlfriends. If you play around with imd a bit, you'll notice that director Tamra Davis is a serious feminist. Spears Lucy always seems innocent, even when she is lolling on a dance pole or singing Madonna's Open Your Heart in the bedroom. In addition, pressing issues such as rape, teenage pregnancy or the body image of young women are not left out. Quite playfully and incidentally. Quite openly, without judgement. Crossroads is a friendly film and when Spears Lucy slowly finds her voice, we genuinely rejoice with her. She has to emancipate herself from her overbearing father (Dan Aykroyd), gets support from her friends. She will find her way. At the time, it seemed like there was hope for Britney Spears....
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