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"Salo" will forever remain in my mind. I try to block it out, but somehow Criterion always finds out. The movie is sick but it does have a good story to back it up. The movie is loved by all who are into this kinds of movies. "Salo" is a disturbing movie but an interesting one nonetheless.
-Black Belt Ninja (see my profile)
Interesting and disturbing movie. A good movie for someone who enjoys a story that stands outside the box.
Harsh!
Absolutely fascinating film. Pasolini turns the DeSade novel into a fairly radical political critique of class exploitation in modern society. Changing the setting from 18th century France to Fascist Italy was a brilliant idea. The film is deeply erotic, with some beautiful young (and not-so-beautiful older) performers; they must have loved Pasolini, because somehow he got them to do the most astonishing things on camera. The film is never preachy; it is content to be quietly, and increasingly, disturbing. This is definitely not a film for everyone; if you're looking for safe, wholesome entertainment, give this one a pass. But if ou want something smarter and more challeneging, SALO is well worth your time.
Excellent translation from the Marquis De Sade novel, captures the poetry and the feeling. Of course the book is better, yet the movie shocked me as I watched it.
-GUILLERMO ALDAMA M. (see my profile)
Has to be seen to believed.
Pier Paolo Pasolini's retelling of stories by Dante and De Sade. Directed in 1975 the movie was banned in the UK for many years only recently being granted a special certificate for private showings. The movie is very disturbing in its imagery and sexual deviations perpetrated on the young guests. The wedding breakfast scene is stomach churning as it consists mainly of human bodily waste. Young guests are forced into humiliating and degrading excercises of sexual and masochistic variations. The film is very much an acquired taste, not something to put on to entertain grandma when she comes 'round for a visit.
This movie is as stupid as it is disgusting--evidently making someone eat shit is a scathing indictment of fascism. Or so we are told by pretentious blowhards who fancy themselves as geniuses for ferreting out the profound symbolism supposedly contained within this piece of trash.
If this exact same movie had been made by anyone but Pasolini, it would have been long ago relegated to the dustbin of movie history where it so sorely belongs. The director challenges us all right. He challenges us to ask ourselves why we wasted our money on this garbage. This piece of shit belongs not in the arthouse, but in the outhouse. Don't waste your time or money.
Brilliantly done. This sick movie gets the essence of Sade in it. The book is still worse, but this is done very, very well--should be considered a classic.
This is painful to sit through. Whatever artistic aspirations it had are nullified by a nihilistic plot.
I watched this more out of morbid curiosity than anything else. It is one sick movie, but it's well-done in what it is. Oddly enough I found the recent "Shortbus" to be more shocking.
Love this movie.
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