Pink Flamingos (1972)

This month, movies have been gay to a variety of extremities with no shortage of themes of “suppression”. Well we’re throwing suppression out the window as well as anything having anything to do with polite society because we’re finally getting to a John Water’s film. John Waters and his eccentric Baltimore circle of friends and freaks had been making movies for a handful of years already, but when he finally released his 1972 film “PINK FLAMINGOS” upon the public, it represented a distinct point in his career. It’s a showcase of notorious Baltimore personalities that, quite frankly, seemed way more fun and accessible than those folks up in Andy Warhol’s Factory. This movie stars Divine, Edith Massey, Mink Stole, David Lochary and Mary Vivian Pearce. John Water’s philosophy of filth, as represented in Pink Flamingos, may be very unsettling at some points but you’ll be laughing twice as much a you’ll be wretching. It’s a war of filth and the god of filth is Babs aka Divine. Can try hard haters, The Marbles, even hope to out-filth the Queen? If you’re not a very political person and you’re looking from some ideology then look no further than this movie. Here’s a link we found: https://archive.org/details/pinkflamingos1972_202211

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