The major reason why John Waters has emerged as one of the most distinctive American filmmakers with his early cheap and trashy flicks in the 70s and why people still watch them as cult classics is that they brutally expose, with amplification, the hideous reality of the U.S. suburb under its beautiful surface. One of his early masterpieces, Female Trouble, presents such suburbia stigmas as dysfunctional family, rape, teenage pregnancy, and domestic violence, in a straightforward and realistic (for Waters) story.
Waters photographs and edits by himself; his frequent technique (up to this work) of introducing a scene with a CU of an object then zooming out looks amateurish but works well in the context. The leading actor/actress, miraculous drag queen Divine's trampoline performance before the catastrophe is just unforgettable.
Waters photographs and edits by himself; his frequent technique (up to this work) of introducing a scene with a CU of an object then zooming out looks amateurish but works well in the context. The leading actor/actress, miraculous drag queen Divine's trampoline performance before the catastrophe is just unforgettable.