Waters shrewdly recognized the potential for a story and wrote Serial Mom, his brilliant, darkly comic 1994 satire of the true-crime genre and the media-driven celebrity of those who run afoul of the law. defense and the curious public interest in the alleged criminals on trial, made a perfect showing of camp spectacle and bizarre farce. The often surreal circumstances of many of the cases, as well as the high drama of prosecution vs. A self-described “crime hag,” Waters viewed criminal trials as a kind of elaborate theater. For many years, filmmaker John Waters spent his leisure time traveling the United States, stopping from city to city and eagerly hopping from one court date to another not on trial, but as spectator.
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