Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma (1975)'s comments

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Timec

"Passolini was a stupid natural born sicko who deserved all he's got."

You overstate things rather drastically.

For one, though Pasolini was a lot of things - not all of them good - he most certainly was not stupid.

And though you seem to want to paint him as someone who constantly sickened audiences with his twisted visions, many of his earlier films are actually quite sane, and rather decidedly not sick or disturbing (and several of them are actually very great.) And while I personally don't like the direction his career took, even this final film (which I kind of hate) is evidence of a deeply empathic individual, one who cannot fully come to terms with a world that allows such evil to occur. It is, in the words of a certain critic, a "howl of rage" at a sickened world.

In other words, I am Miami, your analysis of Pasolini's life and career is full of shit, kind of like this film. It's based on the shallowest understanding of Pasolini's life and his films (and probably only his latter films), and seems a poor excuse to not have to grapple with the works of one of the greatest artists of cinema.

Pasolini was a deeply flawed individual, but he was also very human and often brilliant.

12 years 6 months ago

God

watched it with my grandma. didn't like it much, but she loved it.

8 years 1 month ago

Cassiodoro

"Nothing is more anarchic than power. Power does what it wants and what it wants is totally arbitrary or dictated by its economic reasons which escape common logic"

7 years 7 months ago

Dieguito

Great, but shocking and disturbing movie. Inspired by Marques de Sade books about French decadent bourgeois society, Pasolini makes an analogy with Italian nazi-fascism elite, that clearly embraces the ideals in favor of more power, always by the exploration of a naive poor youth.

10 years 9 months ago

IanWass

I've made a huge mistake...

10 years 9 months ago

akuma587

Probably the most disturbing movie I've ever seen.

14 years 4 months ago

Once_a_Runner

Watched this with my housemates yesterday. We determined that after having been exposed to the shock videos that have surfaced on the internet in the past 10 years, a movie like this wasn't so shocking.

What I found disturbing was how the men were so nonchalant about the whole thing. The classical music and frequent smiles of the adults made almost made you forget what kind of movie I was watching.

12 years 4 months ago

baraka92

Can a film be awful and brilliant at the same time?

5 years 2 months ago

jhhayes

Well, alrighty then...

7 years 10 months ago

-1flb2-

The ELITE twisted as always. Imagined what Godless things their parents did to them. Another day in paradise. The Anus doesn't fall far from the Anus tree.

7 years 7 months ago

juanittomx

Shocking movie, at its time but i think that really captured the essence of the marques the lecture of the book really shock me our mind can imagine worst ways than the movie could show.

12 years 3 months ago

Gershwin

I feel like shit now.

10 years 8 months ago

tylerdurden

It is messed up.

13 years 8 months ago

Paper_Okami

I eventually plan on completing TYSPDT? ,but I may not be able to because I am not sure if I am willing to sit through this. It just sounds so fucking messed up to an extreme.

13 years 10 months ago

Faris Ramli

The most f*cked up film of all time for me...

6 years 7 months ago