Watching the screening this week of Pink Flamingos, I was just thinking about how strange the film was and how stupid the plot was as a whole. During the course of the movie I kept thinking of the movie franchise Fifty Shades of Grey, and the reasoning for that will be explored later on. But back to the screening, another thing that kept coming to my mind while watching this movie was that I couldn’t believe how awful this movie was. It was a bad film, but it wasn’t as bad as Maniac was, at least this film was enjoyable to watch. 

Now you would think that I would be surprised by what was in the movie as a whole, but in actuality I wasn’t surprised at all. I mean I was surprised by the stuff, but I wasn’t surprised that the stuff that was in the movie was in the movie. There are so many movies nowadays that have weird stuff in it, and there are plenty of movies that come to my mind. One movie is The Hangover Part 2 and that is because the movie mentions that one of the main characters had sex with a transgender woman and he doesn’t remember it at all and we see this in the credits of the film with photos of their adventure being shown. Another movie that comes to my mind is The Human Centipede and I haven’t watched that movie ever, but I have heard how gross and disturbing that movie is to watch as a whole. I thought of these two films because they each feature something that is a highlight of the movie as a whole. Pink Flamingos features a transgender woman flashing one of the characters, while the other film features a guy having sex with a transgender woman. A main aspect of Pink Flamingos is the filthiest person alive and I thought of The Human Centipede because that film’s ideas that it presents is gross to think about and if you start to think about the film too much, you realise how gross the film actually is. 

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Now for why I thought of the Fifty Shades of Grey franchise. This franchise was able to gross over one billion dollars at the box office over the course of three movies. Now I thought of this film because the whole franchise is based on the idea that it is porn for people with weird abusive fetishes and it is. A little fact about the books and the films is that the books are actually a fanfiction of the Twilight franchise. The movies are basically advertised as porn, and I haven’t seen the movies because I have heard how bad the franchise is and that the plot really doesn’t make any sense at all. I am comparing these two because I saw this film as a porn for people with weird fetishes and that is also how I see the Fifty Shades franchise, I see them both as a porn for people with weird fetishes. Now I mentioned that the Fifty Shades franchise was able to gross over one billion dollars over the course of three movies and this is because there was a lot of fans of the books, but also because there has never been a film franchise like Fifty Shades where the films use the idea of a abusive sexual relationship to carry the plot, just like how Pink Flamingos relies on the idea of filthiest person alive.

So I compared many films in this to Pink Flamingos, but I think the Fifty Shades franchise is the best comparison I can think of to compare to Pink Flamingos. Both films rely on weird fetishes people can have and use this to market to people and try to gain a profit. So, I wasn’t really surprised a film like Pink Flamingos exists because there are a lot of people out in the world that have weird fetishes and there are people out there that have marketed off of it.