Pornographic? Sadistic? Thought-Provoking? I Finally Watched 'Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom' and...
Let's begin with the description of Pier Paolo Pasolini's Salo, or The 120 Days of Sodom as described by Criterion: The notorious final film from Pier Paolo Pasolini, Salo, or The 120 Days of Sodom has been called nauseating, shocking, depraved, pornographic... It's also a masterpiece. The controversial poet, novelist, and filmmaker's transposition of the Marquis de Sade's eighteenth-century opus of torture and degradation to Fascist Italy in 1944 remains one of the most passionately debated films of all time, a thought-provoking inquiry into the political, social, and sexual dynamics that define the world we live in. The first thing I want to address is any references to this film as "pornographic". This film is not pornographic, that is, unless the person making the statement actually found it to be erotic or stimulating in some way or is assuming others will look at it as pornography. In my opinion, pornography is...
- 10/12/2011
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
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