Pink Flamingos Ending Defined: The Tyranny Of Normalcy

Maybe taking a cue from the infamous Wizard of Gore himself, Herschell Gordon Lewis, Waters seemingly made “Pink Flamingos” as excessive as potential with the intention to rating publicity. Waters was clearly being intentionally disgusting, making a aware effort to piss off the Pinks and cater to the light perverts of the world. Proper beneath the noses of Baltimore’s hoi polloi is a filth contest that the common thoughts can not totally embody. On an episode of NPR’s “Wait Wait… Do not Inform Me,” Waters stated that “Pink Flamingos” was taken to courtroom a number of occasions on obscenity prices, and that he may by no means mount any sort of protection. It’s, in any case, objectively obscene.

There’s definitely an integrity to such an aspiration. Any sicko with a digital camera can movie gross issues and lower them collectively as a film, however Waters possessed a winking love for his characters that makes a movie like “Pink Flamingos” transcend from cruelty and aggression into … dare I say one thing candy? John Waters‘ characters love who they’re, they love the filth they wallow in, they usually love chaos. They’re completely satisfied, blissful individuals who stay to date off the grid, the actual world has been decreased to one thing tutorial. Water constructed a brand new world, a grimy Babylon of aggressive rule-breaking the place widespread morality has been flipped. 

And what’s so nice concerning the world, anyway? A world with out medication, a world with out queer individuals, a world with out intercourse or violence? This isn’t a world value preserving. The best hazard is to be an a-hole. Ridding the world of Connie and Raymond Marble retains filth alive, however rids the world of cruelty. Filth is a lifestyle, however imply individuals needn’t apply. Let’s have a good time with a — gulp — meal.