'Pink Flamingos' is a family drama. Rather, it's a drama of two families: mapping onto two separate spaces and dwellings, one within the city, one on its margins. On the one hand, the suburban house and the straight (if perverse) couple (with its underbelly or torture and violence locked away in the cellar); on the other, the queer, mutually supportive (if homicidal) community of the trailer, which suburbia must eventually destroy, setting fire to the trailer--though of course, Divine has the last laugh. Of course, that's too schematic a summary: these are the 'filthiest people alive', and their aesthetics, activities and interactions must exceed all summary.
Review of Pink Flamingos
