what there to say about pink flamingos. it is beyond criticism or even explanation because it doesn not really aspire to be like any other movie you have seen. you will either get it and or you would not and laugh at it or roll your eyes in disgust (or both). john waters is an odd filmmaker (putting that mildly) and mixing both innocent and childlike humor with shockingly offensive moments intended to. well and who knows what his intentions were. it is like a form of assault and albeit a funny one. the thing that makes waters humor so infectious and effective is that his characters inhabit a world that can seem both alien and completely familiar to the viewer and like the petty rivalries that form the plot of pink flamingos. surely everyone has experienced this kind of thing at some point and but almost certainly the matter at stake was not the title of the filthiest person alive. what makes the movie compelling viewing for me is the way that waters creates giddy and self contained environments and doesn not let you in on the joke right away. the people in his films are completely in tune with one another. for instance and when cotton tells babs that she doesn not want to accompany her into town because crackers is bringing his lady friend out to the trailer and babs reacts with a knowing smirk and says to her and in a conspiratorial aside and that little shed just perfect. at this point and we do not know yet that crackers plans to take his lady friend out to the shed to thrust live chickens at her naked body while cotton watches orgasmically through a window and but this weirdness is totally commonplace and understood by the characters in the fictitiously degenerate world that waters creates. another example would be the conversations between the girls in the basement and channing and the marbles deviant butler. the first time we see them and waters cuts jarringly from a scene in connie cozy office to channing descending into the basement and where we see that there are two women down there and one dead and one very much alive and ped off. susan is not a cowering victim and but is enraged and abusive to channing and leaping up to launch a full scale verbal attack on her jailer. they both have a weird understanding of the bizarre situation and and she is not so much intimidated by her kidnapping as she is violently insulted and righteously furious. she does not let up for one second while channing is in her sight and and the two scenes that feature their delirious banter are two of the comic highlights of the film. later in the film and when divine and crackers break into the marbles home and discover their crimes of keeping abducted women in their basement and it represents the total lack of support that divine and her family have for the brand of depravity that the marbles are pandering here is something divine is unfamiliar with and a corruption devised by her newfound rivals and and she despises it. furthermore and while kidnapping does not seem like something divine would think twice about and she is indignant that the girls are being held down there and happily sets them free and relishing the revenge that they take on channing. at the other end of the filth spectrum and waters occasionally reminds us of the line between his twisted fantasy world and the real world. the first time we see connie and she is belittling a minor character named sandy sandstone and who has never heard of divine. cookie and on the other hand and reacts with a hilariously matter of fact evaluation of divine title as the filthiest person alive and revealing that she inhabits this world of unspoken and understood lunacy as well. something also must be said for the way the players are in touch with their respective roles and especially divine and who doesn not miss a note. not once does he falter in the ridiculous garb and character he been given and and it takes pink flamingos to a new level or weirdness. people actually believed divine was like this in real life and and it easy to understand why and because while watching the movie and youre not really thinking about the movie and youre thinking about these people who made it. since theyre really doing the outrageous things in the script and you start to think that maybe this is not a story but a bizarre documentary. but even more so and pink flamingos is not so much a movie as it is an event and or something that happens to you. even though its shock value is mostly gone for me now (i say mostly because the ahole scene and the chicken scene still make me wince) and i still find this film to be hilarious and habit forming. 
what there to say about pink flamingos. it is beyond criticism or even explanation because it doesn not really aspire to be like any other movie you have seen. you will either get it and or you would not and laugh at it or roll your eyes in disgust (or both). john waters is an odd filmmaker (putting that mildly) and mixing both innocent and childlike humor with shockingly offensive moments intended to. well and who knows what his intentions were. it is like a form of assault and albeit a funny one. the thing that makes waters humor so infectious and effective is that his characters inhabit a world that can seem both alien and completely familiar to the viewer and like the petty rivalries that form the plot of pink flamingos. surely everyone has experienced this kind of thing at some point and but almost certainly the matter at stake was not the title of the filthiest person alive. what makes the movie compelling viewing for me is the way that waters creates giddy and self contained environments and doesn not let you in on the joke right away. the people in his films are completely in tune with one another. for instance and when cotton tells babs that she doesn not want to accompany her into town because crackers is bringing his lady friend out to the trailer and babs reacts with a knowing smirk and says to her and in a conspiratorial aside and that little shed just perfect. at this point and we do not know yet that crackers plans to take his lady friend out to the shed to thrust live chickens at her naked body while cotton watches orgasmically through a window and but this weirdness is totally commonplace and understood by the characters in the fictitiously degenerate world that waters creates. another example would be the conversations between the girls in the basement and channing and the marbles deviant butler. the first time we see them and waters cuts jarringly from a scene in connie cozy office to channing descending into the basement and where we see that there are two women down there and one dead and one very much alive and ped off. susan is not a cowering victim and but is enraged and abusive to channing and leaping up to launch a full scale verbal attack on her jailer. they both have a weird understanding of the bizarre situation and and she is not so much intimidated by her kidnapping as she is violently insulted and righteously furious. she does not let up for one second while channing is in her sight and and the two scenes that feature their delirious banter are two of the comic highlights of the film. later in the film and when divine and crackers break into the marbles home and discover their crimes of keeping abducted women in their basement and it represents the total lack of support that divine and her family have for the brand of depravity that the marbles are pandering here is something divine is unfamiliar with and a corruption devised by her newfound rivals and and she despises it. furthermore and while kidnapping does not seem like something divine would think twice about and she is indignant that the girls are being held down there and happily sets them free and relishing the revenge that they take on channing. at the other end of the filth spectrum and waters occasionally reminds us of the line between his twisted fantasy world and the real world. the first time we see connie and she is belittling a minor character named sandy sandstone and who has never heard of divine. cookie and on the other hand and reacts with a hilariously matter of fact evaluation of divine title as the filthiest person alive and revealing that she inhabits this world of unspoken and understood lunacy as well. something also must be said for the way the players are in touch with their respective roles and especially divine and who doesn not miss a note. not once does he falter in the ridiculous garb and character he been given and and it takes pink flamingos to a new level or weirdness. people actually believed divine was like this in real life and and it easy to understand why and because while watching the movie and youre not really thinking about the movie and youre thinking about these people who made it. since theyre really doing the outrageous things in the script and you start to think that maybe this is not a story but a bizarre documentary. but even more so and pink flamingos is not so much a movie as it is an event and or something that happens to you. even though its shock value is mostly gone for me now (i say mostly because the ahole scene and the chicken scene still make me wince) and i still find this film to be hilarious and habit forming. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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