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The final vision of a controversial filmmaker.
Four corrupted fascist libertines round up 9 teenage boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of sadistic physical, mental and sexual torture.
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
1975 ‘Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma’ Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini
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Paolo Bonacelli Giorgio Cataldi Umberto Paolo Quintavalle Aldo Valletti Hélène Surgère Sonia Saviange Sergio Fascetti Bruno Musso Franco Merli Rinaldo Missaglia Giuseppe Patruno Guido Galletti Efisio Etzi Claudio Troccoli Fabrizio Menichini Maurizio Valaguzza Ezio Manni Caterina Boratto Elsa De Giorgi Graziella Aniceto Giuliana Melis Faridah Malik Renata Moar Dorit Henke Antiniska Nemour Benedetta Gaetani Olga Andreis Ines Pellegrini
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Salò, oder die 120 Tage von Sodom, Saló o los 120 días de Sodoma, Salo ou les 120 journées de Sodome, Saló, o los 120 días de Sodoma, Salò, eller Sodoms 120 dagar, 120 meres sta Sodoma, 索多玛120天, Salo or the 120 Days of Sodom
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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.
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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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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
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Salo or 120 Days of Sodom is fucking hard. Like, it's a hard movie to discuss. The majority of the community of people that see it either like it because it's fucked up or hate it because it's fucked up. On the other hand, I hear the argument more times than I'd care to that this film is 'gratuitous' 'boring' and 'void of intellectual backbone.' So basically there's a large group of people dismissing the movie and saying it's stupid.
As with a lot movies that I feel really strongly towards, I guess I kinda get it. I mean, as I said in the opening of this entry, Salo is fucking hard. It's more than just a challenging movie, it's…
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Happy birthday to me I guess? Exploitation at nobodys cost, as the cruelity in this film does not see gender or ethnicity. This is truly Pasolinis love-letter to humanity, that he made out of necessity and not out of plessure. It is like the camera wants to seperate itself from the cruel acts. The lack of structure, plot or character also suggest that this is not to be enjoyd. Films like The boy in the striped pyjama and Schindlers List is more distastful in the way it disrespects victims by making their torment and stories entertainment. And Salós beautiful production design, that some people belive glorifies the evil fascism, makes the argument that the world is beautiful and even if there is evil in the world the world is beautiful.
”...in the little space there is a tree, in some space there is no trees... Why is the name changed.” - Gertrude Stein -
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smart of Pasolini to make this more boring than anything else, but after a while that boredom began to actually take its toll. both the extreme adoration and rejection of this film is sort of outlandish to me; it’s clever and nasty, but neither to as great an extent as would merit me having any particularly strong feelings on the matter.
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Esse filme é difícil. De assistir. De explicar. De criticar. De classificar.
Uma representação surrealista sobre a sociedade no governo fascista de Mussolini.
Já vi diversas formas de nudez em filmes. Mas, nunca antes de maneira tão assexual. Os personagens estão, durante basicamente o filme todo, nús, e simulando atos sexuais, ou falando sobre. Mas não existe qualquer tipo de sexualidade nas cenas. Cada uma das vítimas parece estar na beira de um colapso mental, enquanto os senhores, tão patologicamente dissociados à humanidade e empatia que esses extremos são apenas a tentativa final para que sintam algo.
O filme começa belo e estranho. Então, se torna estranho e quer chocar. Ao atingir o "círculo de merda" ele parece querer apenas… -
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Fuck this film. I don't know why this is a masterpiece. I understand that it shows the horrors of fascism and sexual sadism. I am a fan of violent content but this is not entertaining to me, it feels dull and pointless. I was always curious about this movie before and now that I watched it, I am unsatisfied, it was not worth it. If you disagree then eat my shit.
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