John Waters classic embraces bad taste
“Pink Flamingos” is a film that savors its own bad taste, vileness, stomach-turning scenes, and reprehensible characters. It is the antithesis of what audiences have come to expect of movies, and that’s what has made it the most unlikely of classics.<br /><br />Divine, a 300-pound actor in drag, is Babs, a flamboyant lady who lives with her friend Cotton (Mary Vivian Pearce), her delinquent son, Crackers (Danny Mills), and her mentally challenged mother (Edith Massey). Babs prides herself on being the world’s filthiest person. Envious of Babs and determined to claim the title for themselves are Connie Marble (Mink Stole) and her husband, Raymond (David Lochary). These two psychos kidnap young women, impregnate them, and sell the children to lesbian couples in order to finance an inner-city heroin ring that preys on high school students. The plot rests on this cut-throat (and often disgusting) competition.<br /><br />With blonde wig, outrageous make-up, and ample flesh stuffed into a variety of skintight skirts, pants and gowns, Divine’s Babs easily dominates the film with her foul mouth, delight in her own vileness, and willingness — however immoral, illegal, or unsanitary — to hold on to her cherished title.<br /><br />The acting is strictly amateur, with stilted line readings, awkward pauses, unsure gestures, and dialogue delivered at peak volume at all times. Though this adds to the overall strangeness of the movie, it wears thin pretty quickly. Compared to her fellow cast members, Divine turns in an Academy Award performance, but let’s remember, everything is relative.<br /><br />Waters has overwritten his script to the point that nearly every scene is  composed of long unrelieved stretches of dialogue, with no movement. The camera is stationary while the actors recite scenes that go on for 2 to 3 minutes, never switching to close-ups or alternate angles for variety or emphasis. This makes for tedious viewing. Waters gets away with this uncinematic approach because of the over-the-top dialogue and actors’ enthusiastic, if unconvincing, delivery. It’s as if we’re seeing an early rehearsal of a script that needs many revisions.<br /><br />Watching “Pink Flamingos” is like attending a freak sideshow. Director John Waters presents several vignettes intended to astonish, repel, and  nauseate, often simultaneously. Babs gets a pig’s head for her birthday and tenderizes steaks between her legs, everyone does drugs, a naked man displays his flexible anus in rhythm to a pop tune, Babs and her friends kill a group of policemen and eat them, genitals are lopped off, and a sex scene adds a live chicken to the mix.<br /><br />One of the oddest touches is Babs’ mother, a mountainous, simple-minded woman who lives in a crib, devours eggs and nothing else, and drools when the egg man arrives and opens a case to display his wares as if they are rare jewels. That no mention is made as to why she is in the crib makes the scenes all the more bizarre. Her family simply sits by the crib, engages her in mundane conversation, and is totally accepting of her.<br /><br />“Pink Flamingos” gained its dubious reputation in the early 1970s when it made the rounds of the midnight circuit. Its intentional avoidance of cinematic tradition, unorthodox content, offbeat characters, poor production value, irreverence, and sheer excess showed that movies didn’t have to follow precedents or subscribe to traditional structure. Waters never treads lightly on gross content, and revels in presenting it in all its glorious outlandishness. He creates a sordid world in which vice and depravity are a daily way of life. The final scene, which earned the film much of its notoriety, was shot in a single, uninterrupted take. It is the movie’s ultimate example of stomach-turning excess and probably one of the most famous scenes in American cinema.<br /><br />Bonus materials on the Criterion Collection Blu-ray release, approved by John Waters, include the following:<br />Divine Trash, a feature-length documentary by Steve Yeager<br />Two audio commentaries featuring Writer/Director John Waters<br />New conversation between John Waters and filmmaker Jim Jarmusch<br />Tour of the film’s Baltimore locations, led by Waters<br />25th Anniversary Footage<br />Outtakes<br />Trailer<br />Booklet<br />Pink Phlegm-ingo Barf Bag<br /><br />Fifty years after its initial release, “Pink Flamingos” still has the power to shock with its  mixture of nudity, humor, violence, and satirical depictions of trailer lifestyle. The film made stars of Waters and Divine. Both went on to make mainstream films, sometimes together, as in “Hairspray” and “Polyester.” “Pink Flamingos” was inducted into the National Film Registry in 2021.
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