Desperate Living

Ugh! One of the most aesthetically disgusting films I've ever seen. The mise-en-scene made me sick to my stomach with all of those dingy, ugly sets. Great stuff from Waters.

I'd feel cleaner bathing in shit after this.

"Desperate Living" delights in its own moral bankruptcy. It revels in its own squalor. This movie gleefully smears poop all over its face and runs nextdoor smiling, ringing its neighbor's doorbell, and trying to kiss whomever answers. This movie is deliriously disgusting and it made me feel filthy after the first, second, and tenth time I watched it. I'm so glad John Waters was born.

Am I the only one who wanted Mink Stole to earn her rightful place as fascist ruler? All those communist sodomites deserved to be ruled by her iron fist.

Certainly one of Waters' nastiest and most grotesque, and probably his best along with Female Trouble. There's a striking contrast between the ostensible tastelessness, sillyness and vulgarity that Desperate Living achieves, and an underlying tastefulness governing the structure of the drama, the visual compositions, the measured pace. It realizes extreme cinema's twisted potential to the fullest, a true gem of trash.

I almost can't believe what I saw. What's more, I really enjoed it.

This is Edith Massey's moment, and apparently John Water's attempt to write a lesbo flick. Gotta love it Toe knee :-)

My favorite of John Waters, full of a dazzling transgressive enthusiasm.

Completely hysterical and hilarious off the bat, this story then (d)evolves into a sort of trash taste fantastical land. It then becomes an incredibly fun, brash, and all-encompassing satire, with Edith Massey dynamite in her matriarch role. Although I like the new duo leads that come in half-way, but they still seem to detract from the amazing transformation into evil Peggy goes through. Also, ALL the editing and composition in this is dreadful.

One of the supporting characters was definitely a big influence for Frank Reynolds but my rental expired and I don't remember who it was. You'll know him when you see him

Viewed June 27, 2019. Truly a hellish movie, and a huge leap forward for Waters as a filmmaker.

The depiction of a downward spiral couldn't be any filthier than this, but in its comedic fashion it's rightfully nuts

John Waters is one of those cult directors I seek out but am always mildly disappointed with. Desperate Living however has to be an art-trash masterpiece and is definitely the pinnacle of all the Waters films I've seen. It's shrill and camp and political and pro-feminist and side-splittingly hysterical.

Surprisingly relevant.

The opening is dynamite and may be one of the funniest things Waters has done, though there are other great moments littered throughout. Occasionally I got lost in the deliriousness of it all and I wasn't as hooked as I was with Female Trouble (perhaps Divine's absence has something to do with this?) but it's still great.

that opening scene tho

Although Pink Flamingos is still my favorite from Waters, this is almost just as good and for all the same reasons.

Probably Waters's most outrageous movie; and for him, that's saying a lot. Viewers of any gentility will be mortified by all sorts of tasteless goings-on

I love John Waters films. He knows what he is setting out to do and doesn't care about the rest of it. Hence why we have such films as Pink Flamingos and Desperate Living. I would rate this higher, but it would merely be my straight opinion and not an honest opinion. Over time it may change, but anyway, this is the lesbian romp, and I do mean ROMP. Who ever thought perversion could be like this? Backwards Day or no, this film took minutes of my life and I am glad I can't get them back.

Boring.

A John Waters epic!

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I usually like John Waters's disgusto fillms, but this one just totally misses the boat