Female Trouble
1974 Directed by John Waters
Synopsis
Nice girls don't wear cha-cha heels.
A spoiled schoolgirl runs away from home, gets pregnant while hitchhiking, and ends up as a fashion model for a pair of beauticians who like to photograph women committing crimes.
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Cha cha heels 4eva.
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Cha cha heels 4eva.
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One of those movies I thought I would hate, but really didn’t. I mean, the jokes are gross, and it’s purposefully disgusting, and there’s too much greasy penis on camera. But, I don’t know, it was somehow not appalling at all. Just weird and absurd, camp to the max, and everyone is just so damned cheeky, I really enjoyed it. I adored Divine and Mink Stole both, two very funny performances. Priceless dialogue, throughout. Bravo, Mr. Waters, you charmed me with this one.
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"The world of heterosexual is a sick and boring life."
Weird, fucked, and grotesque in the best way possible. John Waters knows what's up. Where Dr. Strangelove is praised for satire, I feel like this is far more apt and dangerous.
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While it may not be as shocking or disgusting as Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble is still an absurd piece of trash that you simply can't unsee. It does show more competency as a film than Flamingos and solidified John Waters and Divine as the king and queen of trash.
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A trip!
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We can always count on John Waters to make such a trashy, filthy, absurd comedy as Female Trouble so exemplifies. Peppered with some surprisingly sharp bits of dialogue, this film is not as overtly shocking as the more famous Pink Flamingos, but it is, in some respects, just as low in sentiments. Worth watching at least once, but definitely not for everyone’s enjoyment.
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"Who's ready to die for art?" Female Trouble is a host of mad characters inspired from our own sick society worshipping a culture of decadency. It is sad and it is hilarious. We laugh at the absurdness and degeneracy of the characters. We poke fun and make with derision of their wacky world, but it is not so different from our own. There is child abuse, vainglory, contempt for sophistication, murder, and psychosis just as ample in what we refer to as reality. Writer, producer, and director John Waters delivers a bizarre vision which the audience believes they have impunity. Sadly, but funnily enough, we are living in it.
Harris Milstead, or rather, 'Divine' takes the starring role as the…
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The life story of Dawn Davenport (Divine), starting from her days as a teenage delinquent who knocks a Christmas tree over on her mother and runs off to get fucked and impregnated by a greasy sleazester (also Divine). It moves on to her days as a thief and mother, when she starts going to a high-class beauty salon where she meets her husband Gator, who fucks her with household tools, and whose Aunt Ida (Edith Massey) loathes heterosexuality and eventually throws acid in Dawn’s face out of spite. She also meets the sex-negative owners of the salon, Donna and Donald Dasher (Mary Vivian Pearce and David Lochary), who are fascinated by her criminal life and attempt to make her a…
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Funny stuff..