Pink Flamingos

John Waters made Pink Flamingos in 1972, and cinema has never quite scrubbed it off. Divine, the drag queen playing a character also named Divine, lives in a trailer with a family every bit as unhinged as she is. She calls herself the filthiest person alive, and the plot, such as it is, follows her clan through a string of taboo stunts staged to defend that title. The genre tags say comedy and crime. Both are technically accurate, and neither prepares anyone for the actual film. Mary Vivian Pearce, Mink Stole, and David Lochary round out the cast, all pitched at the same shameless volume, though none can match Divine, whose performance swallows the movie whole. Stretches of it are deliberately repellent, and Waters clearly wanted them that way. It became a landmark of underground cinema anyway, mostly by treating the whole idea of what films were allowed to show as a dare.

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