![]() ![]() Show Summary Intro: This film has a special place in Maria’s heartīrandon: First time seeing this movie is deep That’s it in a nutshell, so just pour yourself a big old glass of whole milk, sit down, and get ready to experience our love of John Waters on this next episode of Peculiar Picture Show. This movie is very much anti-death penalty, so Brandon spends some time talking about that while I propose this movie becomes our movie mascot. Waters, known for raunchy films like Pink Flamingos and Female Trouble and more tame ones like Hairspray and this one, has a knack for telling stories that comment on social norms, and in this one, that’s exactly what he does, commenting upon what we think is right and wrong, America’s true crime obsession, and the death penalty. The movie is a dark comedy written and directed by the King of Filth himself, John Waters. Beverly gets caught, goes to trial, and ends up being released just to immediately kill again-a lady-a juror-played by Patricia Hearst-who wears white after Labor Day. And then she kills her son’s teacher.īeverly Sutphin is Serial Mom, a murdering mother of a fucker, bringing judgment to the especially nasty-the cheating boyfriend, the condescending teacher, the mean lady who doesn’t rewind her video tapes. Pretty regular, right? Well, we soon discover she also loves prank calling and harassing a neighbor who took her parking place one time at a grocery store, a long time ago. This is about Serial Mom, and this introduction is supposed to give you a brief synopsis of the plot, so here I go.īeverly Sutphin is your “typical housewife” and mother-she sews, makes meatloaf, and brings fruitcake for her son’s teacher at their parent-teacher conference. Much like I love the movie I Love You to Death, but maybe that’s in a future episode. The movie is from 1994, which as I explain during the episode, is apparently the defining movie year for me, your host-or one of your hosts-Maria Milazzo, and really a kind of important year for me in terms of mental health, as that’s when I was 14 years old, and if you’ve been listening to this podcast, you know that was around the time I was going through some trauma.īut unlike the movie Natural Born Killers, which is also from 1994, and a movie Brandon and I talked about on an episode a while ago (check it out if you have a chance), I don’t think my love for Serial Mom is related to nostalgia and connecting it to important milestones, like perhaps my affection for Natural Born Killers is. That prospect tickles Waters.This next movie is one of my favorite films of all time. He has no plans for retirement Waters hopes to keep grinding until “the day I drop dead.” He cites as a role model the late Joan Rivers, who used to joke that if her fans were lucky, she would die in the middle of a stand-up set-and they would forever get to tell people they were there when it happened. So, Waters is still working, writing his book and dreaming up edgy Trump material for his frequent live performances. They used humor as terrorism, and I’m all for that.” If Waters could summon someone to effectively mock Trump out of the White House, he would call on the late anarchist activist Abbie Hoffman and his crew of like-minded protesters. “That’s what fag hags are called within the adult baby movement.” if he is calling his wife ‘mommy’ or ‘mother,’ well, that’s what adult babies do,” he continues. “All powerful men-ask any hooker-they like to lose power. Why? Because, the filmmaker explains, the vice president calls his wife “Mother”-which means he might be “an adult baby.” Waters, by the way, spits out the word “mother” like it’s a horrid slur, a funny reversal coming from the king of blasphemy. ![]() “That’s the only way to get him-but the scariest thing is if he’s gone, we have Pence, who’s even worse,” says Waters. (Waters is especially fond of dreaming up Trump-inspired porn titles, like Comb Over and Blow Me.) Though few things shock Waters, he is still human (don’t tell!) and is finding ways to use his art to cope with devastating political news-by, for example, writing profane jokes about President Trump, which he hopes will “humiliate” him. “Even when she was in Trog, she acted like she was in Long Day’s Journey into Night,” he explains. Waters’s adoration of Crawford runs so deep that when the British Film Institute in London asked him last year to select his favorite British films, Crawford’s truly “embarrassing” final project Trog was on his list. ![]()
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