what there to say about pink flamingo . it be beyond criticism or even explanation because it doesn not really aspire to be like any other movie you have see . you will either get it and or you would not and laugh at it or roll your eye in disgust ( or both ) . john water be an odd filmmaker ( put that mildly ) and mix both innocent and childlike humor with shockingly offensive moment intend to . well and who know what his intention be . it be like a form of assault and albeit a funny one . the thing that make water humor so infectious and effective be that his character inhabit a world that can seem both alien and completely familiar to the viewer and like the petty rivalry that form the plot of pink flamingo . surely everyone have experience this kind of thing at some point and but almost certainly the matter at stake be not the title of the filthy person alive . what make the movie compelling view for me be the way that water creates giddy and self contain environment and doesn not let you in on the joke right away . the people in his film be completely in tune with one another . for instance and when cotton tell babs that she doesn not want to accompany her into town because cracker be bring his lady friend out to the trailer and babs reacts with a know smirk and say to her and in a conspiratorial aside and that little shed just perfect . at this point and we do not know yet that cracker plan to take his lady friend out to the shed to thrust live chicken at her naked body while cotton watch orgasmically through a window and but this weirdness be totally commonplace and understood by the character in the fictitiously degenerate world that water creates . another example would be the conversation between the girl in the basement and channing and the marble deviant butler . the first time we see them and water cut jarringly from a scene in connie cozy office to channing descend into the basement and where we see that there be two woman down there and one dead and one very much alive and ped off . susan be not a cowering victim and but be enrage and abusive to channing and leap up to launch a full scale verbal attack on her jailer . they both have a weird understanding of the bizarre situation and and she be not so much intimidate by her kidnapping a she be violently insult and righteously furious . she do not let up for one second while channing be in her sight and and the two scene that feature their delirious banter be two of the comic highlight of the film . later in the film and when divine and cracker break into the marble home and discover their crime of keep abducted woman in their basement and it represent the total lack of support that divine and her family have for the brand of depravity that the marble be pander here be something divine be unfamiliar with and a corruption devise by her newfound rival and and she despise it . furthermore and while kidnap do not seem like something divine would think twice about and she be indignant that the girl be be hold down there and happily set them free and relish the revenge that they take on channing . at the other end of the filth spectrum and water occasionally remind u of the line between his twisted fantasy world and the real world . the first time we see connie and she be belittle a minor character name sandy sandstone and who have never hear of divine . cookie and on the other hand and reacts with a hilariously matter of fact evaluation of divine title a the filthy person alive and reveal that she inhabit this world of unspoken and understood lunacy as well . something also must be say for the way the player be in touch with their respective role and especially divine and who doesn not miss a note . not once do he falter in the ridiculous garb and character he be give and and it take pink flamingo to a new level or weirdness . people actually believe divine be like this in real life and and it easy to understand why and because while watch the movie and youre not really think about the movie and youre think about these people who make it . since theyre really do the outrageous thing in the script and you start to think that maybe this be not a story but a bizarre documentary . but even more so and pink flamingo be not so much a movie a it be an event and or something that happen to you . even though it shock value be mostly go 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 .