Critics and culture have observed Spring Breakers to be a trashy film due to its lack of contribution to art. Why is this the case? More importantly who gets to decide whether or not, a film is ‘good’ or ‘bad’? As Foucault (1978, p. 100-1, as cited in Mills, 2004, p. 40) explains,
Discourses are not once and for all subservient to power or raised up against it, any more than silences are […] Discourse transmit and produces power; it reinforces it, but also undermines it and exposes it, renders it fragile and makes it impossible to thwart it.
Discourses thereby set up power relationships that reinforce or challenge cultural norms in societies, producing truths, and what is deemed as acceptable or unacceptable behaviour. Spring Breakers perception