7/12/2023 0 Comments Beverly sutton serial mom![]() His frequent collaborations with Divine were exercises in subversion by their very nature. The people in Waters’s movies are as complicit in upholding some sort of moral puritanism as the ones showing up to see them. Nor is a contest in Pink Flamingoes just a contest - it brings filth to the masses and upends the natural order of moralism. It has hardly been easy, therefore, to characterize his work, or even his characters, without sounding glib or without forgetting that, when he employs stereotypes - in exaggerated, extreme, crude forms - he’s usually commenting on, or skewering, the audience’s one-dimensional notion of what is “right.” A traveling sideshow is not merely that in Multiple Maniacs - its perversities upset the suburbanites walking by. Throughout his career as a director, writer, artist, road tripper, provocateur, etc., Waters has been interested in revealing society’s obsession with reductive categorization. ![]() ![]() And then sell them, his pencil-thin mustache twisting in a good-humored smirk. John Waters’s response to boxes - the kind in which we tend to place others and ourselves - is to vomit on them. Serial Mom is available in a new Blu-ray edition from Shout Factory.
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