I'm not saying The Fifth Element is a perfect movie but it's rare to get both this level of camp and this level of dirt in the same film. It's SO campy, but stuff is dirty and broken and layered and most of the people in it look like some rando you would see at the grocery store. And you just don't get that too often.
And at the same time so vibrant and full of life.
I think that's part of what makes it feel so vibrant to me! It doesn't have that flat, plastic, airbrushed, bleached, homogenized look.













