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Never in the history of film (released in theaters) no one has managed to overcome an exercise as trash, tacky, rude, uncouth and repulsive as you did John Waters in 1972.
Waters was responsible for practically everything: directing, writing, photography, production, etc.. All his friends from Baltimore, a bunch of freaks, in a prank amateur surpasses anything seen before.
If a movie can have the quintessential pioneer drag: Divine, a hermaphrodite, sado sex with chickens and other sexual perversions, a seedy and very artificial insemination, an exhibitionist butcher, a singer ass, oral sex between a mother and her child an act of motherly love, castration, a party with initiation to cannibalism and eschatology climax scene most celebrated canine, then and only then we can say that Pink Flamingos is past.
It was a new way of understanding the independent film and especially inspired and still inspires Peter Jackson, Todd Solondz, Almodovar and many more.
Pink Flamingos is the perfect example that it need not be tacky bad, trash and glamor are only a step, it can be fun and repulsive that the film is to provoke the viewer feelings and Pink Flamingos, for better or worse, leaves no one indifferent.
The low-budget did not exceed two thousand dollars, there was no real problem: the vulgarity of its formal style, the lamentable and grotesque picture at all times scenarios reinforce the squalor in which they develop the characters. Waters showed that artistic talent is not always proportional to the means of production. Its primitive technique promoted the scandal by destroying the canons of good taste. And for these purposes does not hesitate to resort to the most vulgar and lewd nonsense. Noteworthy are the end of his beloved feast or tasting Divine cannibal. A gallery of insolence that can freeze more than a smile.
"What are your political beliefs?" Asks a reporter to Divine, to which replies with absolute conviction: "Kill all, forgive the first-degree murder, support cannibalism, eat shit ... that's my policy and my life. "
A devastating film that goes against the pillars of the "American way of life", from the family to justice.
5/10
