Kelly WandFemale Trouble
October 29th 2006 03:53
John Waters has brought us many things in our time but this film walks way out on the wild side and then keeps on going. It is hysterically funny if you can keep your lunch down long enough to laugh but that battle is a close run thing. Economy sized transvestite Divine was seldom grosser than this and that says a lot. The scene where, whilst playing duel roles, he fucks himself is particularly memorable.
Dawn Davenport wants cha-cha heels. When her parents fail to deliver at Christmas time, she runs away from home, gets pregnant (to herself) and embarks on a life of crime. The owners of the Lipstick Beauty Salon have a philosophy that beauty comes from crime and Dawn becomes their pin-up girl. Acid burns, infanticide, patricide, axe mutilation, mass murder, kidnap and the mainlining of liquid eye-liner follow.
There is sex, sex and more sex: but none of it is arousing. Well, I know it didn’t arouse me but – you know what they say – different strokes. For me, there has never has there been a better advert for celibacy.
Fans of Sid Vicious will see the blueprint drawn for their hero. There is even a nightclub performance where Divine pulls out a gun and shoots the audience.
Does this sound like fun to you? Well, as poorly as I describe it, I must assure you that it is. “Female Trouble” rocks big time. Film critic Rex Reed said of this film “Where do these people come from? Where do they go when the sun goes down? Isn’t there a law or something?”
Funnily enough, Rex Reed starred in a film called “Myra Breckinridge”. You can see what kind of a film that is by reading more “Sprocket Holed”. The two films would make an outstanding double bill if they could only set up a Drive-in Movie Theatre in King’s Cross.
Dawn Davenport wants cha-cha heels. When her parents fail to deliver at Christmas time, she runs away from home, gets pregnant (to herself) and embarks on a life of crime. The owners of the Lipstick Beauty Salon have a philosophy that beauty comes from crime and Dawn becomes their pin-up girl. Acid burns, infanticide, patricide, axe mutilation, mass murder, kidnap and the mainlining of liquid eye-liner follow.
There is sex, sex and more sex: but none of it is arousing. Well, I know it didn’t arouse me but – you know what they say – different strokes. For me, there has never has there been a better advert for celibacy.
Fans of Sid Vicious will see the blueprint drawn for their hero. There is even a nightclub performance where Divine pulls out a gun and shoots the audience.
Does this sound like fun to you? Well, as poorly as I describe it, I must assure you that it is. “Female Trouble” rocks big time. Film critic Rex Reed said of this film “Where do these people come from? Where do they go when the sun goes down? Isn’t there a law or something?”
Funnily enough, Rex Reed starred in a film called “Myra Breckinridge”. You can see what kind of a film that is by reading more “Sprocket Holed”. The two films would make an outstanding double bill if they could only set up a Drive-in Movie Theatre in King’s Cross.
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