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By integrating songs into scenes while rendering the dialogue mute, he was able to consistently create an ironically fun-loving atmosphere. But ultimately, what Waters has achieved is something stylistically noteworthy. But so is John Waters, the same man who has declared 'Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!' as the best film ever made.Īs an auteur, Waters is commendable for making the film look as cheap as possible while also feeding it with enough acts of deprivations and cruelty to make it even more shockingly antithetic to what makes a film acceptable at the least. This Divine is one unpredictable fella to deal with. Referencing a clichéd action film tagline, 'God help those who come his/her way'.īut in the end, no matter how deprived and murderous Divine may be, she may just ultimately prefer to cook her dear mother some eggs all day (and maybe eat some excremental droppings from dogs on the way) rather than to murder for fun. And in her case, the word 'justification' means fending off some hacks who want to seize from her the title of 'the filthiest person alive'.

#PINK FLAMINGO MOVIE#

The only difference is unlike most movie killers who prefer to murder alone, Divine prefers company and an audience, but she only does so when there's enough justification.

Personally, I still think that Divine is, without a doubt, one of the most frightening characters in all of movie history. And beneath her heavily made-up, genuinely intimidating exterior is a truly caring daughter to a mentally ill, egg-loving mother (Edith Massey) and a consistently encouraging mother to a mentally unstable son (Danny Mills).īut still, do not be misled by the ostensibly tender characterization. Divine, although an extremely disturbed person, is still family-oriented. That is a compliment, by the way.īut the film, as crazy as it may be, is still a story rooted in familial bond. From cannibalism to castration, Waters has thrown everything into the film but the kitchen sink, and the result may just be the most appalling piece of trash ever made. In fact, John Waters seemed to have seen that 'filthy' little branding as a challenge to visually top himself in every sequence, shock factor-wise. Perhaps 'Pink Flamingos' belongs to that category.Ī film about the filthiest person alive (played by late drag legend Divine), one can't really expect a film with such subject matter to be an exercise in elegance and good taste. But hell, there's such a thing we call 'junk art'. Buñuel's short classic is pure silent art 'Pink Flamingos' is a radical piece of noisy trash. Damn New York Magazine for nonsensically comparing this to Luis Buñuel's 'An Andalusian Dog'. This, I believe, is trash American cinema at its most deprived, disturbed and relentlessly absurd. Sure, films like 'Salo' and 'Cannibal Holocaust' have disturbed me to the fullest, but it's only during 'Pink Flamingos' that I have looked away from the screen several times simply because I just can't take what the film is showing me anymore. Those two times when I just can't continue on watching the film is a foreboding all on its own. I really don't see what's funny with Pink Flamingos, and it is a poorly constructed film that never should have been made. Aside from sheer shock content, the film is boring with nothing interesting going for it. The success of Pink Flamingos on the midnight film circuit is surprising. This is not landmark cinema, and it really a picture that exhibits poor taste. The film leaves asking questions, as to why this crap would be made. Waters exposes us to every taboo there is, purely for shock value. However, when I unfortunately ended up watching it, I really didn't get the hype. I was curious about this film, as I've heard plenty of things about it, how it was a milestone of cinema and such. However this is just a disturbing piece of garbage that should not be watched at all costs. Trash films are fun, I mean look at what Trauma has done. This is not a film classic by any means, and it doesn't deserve the praise it has gotten. There is little substance here to really make it worth seeing, and the content is despicable and it's just for shock value.

This film was trash, and a poor waste of film. I really don't understand as to why this film has gotten praise. I've seen my fair share of Exploitation pictures, but this one ranks as the worst. John Waters most famous film, Pink Flamingos is an awful piece of crap that is just poorly constructed with a poorly thought plot, which really doesn't make sense, and really bad cast.

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