you know what they say about fascism

it ain't great

Rats laugh when they are tickled.
Just a happy little fact to cheer me up after that (literal) shit-fest.

Rats laugh when they are tickled.
Rats laugh when they are tickled.
Rats laugh when they are tickled.
I'm just going to keep repeating that to myself...

If there's one thing that I have to say, it's that, to me, the scariest thing about Salo is the sardonic tone with which it handles its subject matter.

The only other thing that I'll mention, because I'm cinematically exhausted, is it's interesting to me that this film, which is quite possibly the ugliest film ever made, was released in 1975, the same year as Andrei Tarkovsky's Zerkalo/The Mirror, which is quite possibly the most beautiful film ever made. Both films are masterpieces in their own right (or in this case, wrong).

Okay.
Goodnight.
I'm going to go and try to dream about some puppies.

"Salò, and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Days of Sodom"

the opening credits music sounded like a woody allen film which i thought was odd until i realized that both woody allen and the nazis in this film are pedophiles so it works.

i went to my least favorite place this morning, the dentist, and i had my teeth cleaned and scraped at for an hour until they bled and after watching this i can honestly say im praying for a dentists sweet embrace right now

Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Second viewing, first time since I was seventeen. Never thought I’d watch it again, but it was showing at the Belcourt on 35mm and I think I’m glad I went, probably. 

While it’s obviously notorious for the images, the dialogue stood out to me more this time, since I knew, more or less, what parade of horrors was coming. Aesthetics are political, etc., but also power and wealth just make you so oppressively fucking boring that you end up talking about the qualities to be appreciated in shit. Unwatchable at least in part because it’s the only honest movie about the modern, fashionable aristocracy.

What makes the movie so affecting, and ultimately ageless, is how much it leaves up to the imagination.

يلعن دين باباك يا بازوليني تاع شكوبي مع هذا الليل قاع

Kinda over-the-top during certain scenes, which I didn’t really think was possible... perhaps it was the dubbing which did not grow on me. 

Another thing: it’s funny looking up the actors’ IMDb pages since a lot of them haven’t done anything since. Imagine partaking in a body of work like this that’s forever accessible to your friends and family... that’s bravery.

Basta

A prescient synthesis that speaks of a wicked control system that doesn’t disappear. Perhaps now we’re in a more advanced manifestation of the totalitarian consumerism indicted and, if not soothsayer, Pasolini knew it’s ceaseless march could only metaphorically continue this way. Salo reveals a horrid truth about the collusion of power and the commodification of those subject to the regime: in other words most of us.

i think it was TOOOOOOOOOO much