Pink Flamingos Review

Review of Pink Flamingos (1972) by screenqueeen: 👍 3.5/5

What a beast. Everything that will make you uncomfortable is in this movie, mostly heavier in the first half or so. Once the filth war really kicks off the humor is infectious. I think this would actually have benefitted with the inclusion of the removed scenes between Babs and Cotton, and the extended home-cursing sequence with Babs and Crackers before they start licking everything. I would have liked to see the chicken cooking scene post-coitus just to have some reassurance, as that sex scene is probably the most shocking thing in the film for me.

The dialogue is really the star, and both the writing and performances culminate by the time the trial takes place. Everything that transpires during it is so resoundingly American in the healthiest way, not even remotely sarcastically. You can't have a stronger ending in a film.