![]() ![]() Fetish: Cotton is a voyeur, Crackers loves chickens, and let's not get started on Raymond and Connie.Explicit Content: All of the sex, including chicken rape, is unsimulated.Between Babs and her family's exploits and the Marble's illegal baby ring, it's hard to decide who is the more "moral" of the two. Evil: Neither Babs or the Marble's could be ever considered "good" people. Even Evil Has Standards: Divine seems disturbed by the plight of the girls kept in the Marbles' cellar.Also the actor, but not the character, Divine. Dirty Coward: The Marbles are totally helpless the moment Divine, Crackers, and Cotton barge into their home out of revenge for burning down Divine's trailer and they try to get away with it by lying, saying they've got the wrong people.Gentlemen, the verdict is guilty on all ten counts of first-degree stupidity." Chewbacca Defense: "Is there any cross-examination? No? A very strange defense, I must say.Card-Carrying Villain: Divine is extremely proud of being called "The Filthiest Person Alive".It should be considered not as a film but as a fact, or perhaps as an object. Berserk Button: Despite being the filthiest person alive, the Marbles sending Babs a turd is the last straw.Įbert: Note: I am not giving a star rating to Pink Flamingos, because stars simply seem not to apply. ![]() Asshole Victim: Babs' sentences the Marbles to death for "asshole-ism".This is amplified by John Waters' own book, Shock Value, in which he exclusively calls the character Divine instead of Babs.Babs is the "Filthiest Person in the World", but at the conclusion, the narration states Divine is the Filthiest Person in the World, and eats dogshit to prove it. However, considering what happened to the last group of cops that were called to the trailer (and the fact that Divine threatens to kill and eat one reporter's wife and child if he doesn't report the execution), it was probably the best option not to do anything. Accomplice by Inaction: The three tabloid reporters certainly could have stopped Divine's assassination of the Marbles, or at least called the police.Divine, however, is furious when a pair of perverts, Raymond and Connie Marble, try to steal her title of " filthiest person alive." Played for Laughs. It follows the adventures of Divine (living under the alias of Babs Johnson), a fat, style-obsessed criminal who lives in a trailer with her mentally ill mother Edie, her delinquent son Crackers, and her traveling companion Cotton. The film that launched John Waters as the world's leading authority on bad taste, Pink Flamingos is a 1972 transgressive comedy starring Divine, David Lochary, Mink Stole, Edith Massey, Danny Mills, and Mary Vivian Pearce. ![]()
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