15 Classic Movies of Grotesque You Shouldn’t Miss
24 November 2015 Features, Film Lists by Nathael Molaison
Pink Flamingos (1972)
Wolfgang Kayser stated that grotesque is a foreign intrusion in a world that seems natural. A feeling of estrangement, an uncanny reality in the image we see. It’s a mixture of strange, horrific, and comic. However, through the cineast’s humoristic expression of the undeniable existence of death and incompletion in our lives, this genre becomes something much more complex than the sum of its parts.
Grotesque lies within the paradox of that comic angle forced upon these tragic images. The films on this list all have this propensity for tension and absurdity, rooted in images that often gross out or shock the viewer by their ultimate “corporality”. The keyword here is metamorphosis: while seeing the film, we feel the character or the environment changing before our very eyes.
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