you know what they say about fascism

it ain't great

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

Salò has lurked in the back of my mind for awhile now. Going in with the expectation of it being one of the most disturbing films of all time had me intimidated but extremely curious. What I didn’t expect was the bleak, depressing, disconnections within the film. While obviously disturbing (so much poop) I can’t say I’ve seen a film this heartless before. A film that conveys that feeling not through nauseating cinematography or haunting music but through something indescribable. I’ll be thinking about this one for awhile but not for the reasons I expected.

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.

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.

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What can I say...gotta endure some pretty fucked up stuff in the name of art. Now, I wonder has anyone actually rewatched this? And if so, for what reason? This is some “tie up your enemies and have them watch this on repeat accompanied by Cannibal Corpse discography” type flick.

!!!!!! ??????? !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well this was a whole lot of fuckery

Not as shocking as some films but that ending scene is just scorched into my brain.

Damn the blu ray looks and sounds way better than the shitty (😉) bootleg i had. 

What more needs to be said about Salo? If you’ve actually seen it then you know how impossible it is to dismiss it. You may not want to watch it ever again, but you probably won’t forget it.

YOOOOOOOOOOO

Osa minu “certified putsis” filmide kollektsioonist, peaaegu et tabeli kõrgeimal kohal.

"Because to take away a man's freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to manipulate him as though he were a puppet and not a person"

This is the essence of this film, the abuse of power, something relevant all the time. This brings it to the extreme because of the times, lets just say the fascists weren't the nices crowd to hang around. Abuse of the strong over the weak has always been one of humanities great struggles, it is embedded in our survival code, but not in our moral code, which should you listen to? I think this film depicts this brilliantly, gruesomly yes but brilliantly.