Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom is the best awful movie
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0:00 - Honestly, in retrospect this opening is super annoying so just skip it
2:30 - Actually talking about the movie
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Hello from the 2020 Quarantine! Because this video has been picking up steam recently, I thought it would be good to add actual subtitles instead of the auto-generated ones, and I just gotta say... gosh I'm annoying. Especially for the first two and a half minutes. I totally get why most folks don't make it that far, but it's unfortunate, because I do think it gets better after that.
In my defense, this video was done within the first six months of the channel, and there have been some changes, perhaps the most useful of which is a substantially faster talking speed, which this video really could have benefited from.
C'est la vie.
Don’t worry about it bruh
that is no problem i enjoyed it
Not a good movie to watch in quarantine.
Indeed.C'est la vie
You did well pal
lowkey wanna watch it, but i don’t want to get traumatized.
it’s 2024 y’all and i never watched it lmfao 😭
zoey lo don’t worry it was quite boring having to watch a documentary about my life. U might enjoy it tho
@@dawg7896 are you sure. I've seen peoples skin get cut straight off their body and people brains hanging on with their skull cracked open on gross gore and it hasn't really traumatized me in any way. I think I'm a little desensitized but not really traumatized.
N8 the Great well u just got problems
N8 the Great Ive seen it. I don’t really get why people consider it the most fucked up movie of all time. Is it fucked up and disturbing? Yes. But I was exposed to more fucked up shit online by the time I was 14 lol.
N8 the Great And you also gotta realize.. it’s just a movie lol. The shit you see online 9/10 is real. That shit fucks me up more than any movie possibly could.
Tik tok sent me here cuZ I don’t want to watch the video :3 btw I love how you explained the movie!!tysm
lmaooo same
Wait... what about Tik Tok?
The Week I Review I was scrolling through tiktok and it mentioned some movies that are banned, and this was among one of those movies. My eye was caught by this one, so I searched the movie on RUclips and clicked on your video.
Dope.
The Week I Review vm.tiktok.com/cwwfe3/ there’s the link:)
Just watched salo. I didn't think of Cannibal Holocaust as very disturbing and I thought a Serbian film was a pretty decent movie. Salo just made me sick to my stomach, and I don't get sick very often
where did you find it
Dude wtf, human centipede 1 made me sick i almost puked in my bed, and that serbian mf movie made me want to scrub my mind and just not remember that shit. 😨😷
I mean, I felt Salo was pretty disturbing, especially since I watched it when I was 13, or 14, but I felt that Salo was able to get its point across without being AS disturbing as A Serbian Film.
Yea. I couldn't bring myself to finish it. Just put me in a really weird head space and I couldn't finish it.
@@lifewithace2780 Google it online. There are streaming vids of it.
I read the wiki on the film and that was enough
Disturbia they still take place, that’s what the film was made to say that the elites and billionaires around the world do.
I've heard that before 🤣. Most end up watching it. The main point is lost upon you guys.
I won't be watching it 😏
@deggomyeggo it's a leftist thing. You can see that far left sociopath behavior today
I'd say that's harder than watching the movie itself, because the imagination is way more horrible. Did the same, then watched it, it's not as horrible as you'd think (never thought I'd say that especially about this film haha). But it is a great movie nonetheless, just take it as you would watch it in class and you'll be fine. Because that's actually what the movie asks for imo. Watching it in an analytical, context-sensitive perspective I mean.
Watched this earlier today. Had to binge cartoons to keep myself sane.
I physically felt sick after watching this. My heart rate was up and I felt shacky inside.
It's certainly a lot to take in.
@@TheWeekIReview like tell me what it all means like why did that lady jump out the window and why did I feel bad for the first prostitute who told the story about the priest . the sadness in her eyes . I felt bad for her .
It's the only movie that's ever made me actually vomit. My stomach couldn't handle the scene involving coprophagia.
nxj18xbmc wat ?
@@theJaRRoOnE22 you might want to google it ._.
Who’s here from a tik tok on banned movies
You're the third to mention it! Could you link me to the Tik Tok? I'm really curious.
vm.tiktok.com/31VvuP/ Here ❤️
To quote him, dont look these up
vm.tiktok.com/383mro/ here
Thank you!
Having seen all of the movies in that Tik Tok, I disagree. There are far, far worse movies than those. The Devils is amazing, and Freaks is a fascinating film that sadly has had a third of its footage lost to time.
Antichrist is interesting. (Chaos reigns.)
Decided to check it out due to my interest in strange or disturbing films. I have seen many horror films and they don't really bother me at all. But, I could not finish this film. Watched a little past the wedding scene and felt physically and mentally sick. Definitely not for the faint of heart.
can i have the link to download it please
@@samuelojochenemisolomon1011 Just Google it. I found it on "Effed Up Movies" or something like that.
@@TECfan1 bruh is it really that bad? what is the part that makes you sick? I'm so fragile ahaha.
@@soultrain4549 The entire film is honestly disgusting. Especially if you really think about it, and how things like this probably happen. Yes, it really is that bad. It's just very emotionally draining.
@@TECfan1 Thnx bruh, I'll just skip it.
Bill Hader recomended this to me, said it was great for date night.
I saw it with a date... we don't anymore
You watched that on a date night?????
how did you do this all in one cut i am so impressed
Teleprompter.
John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
I have an extremely weak stomach due to never having watched a horror movie until about 6 months ago, but explanations of horror films fascinate me... thank you for this!
I was not as disturbed as thought I would be. I can smell the shit from the screen though.
I don’t think it is the grand statement the movie thinks it is. I do think it gives representation of power, fascism, and the dangers of hierarchical structures under capitalism.
The movie is beautiful, but extremely disgusting. “The ugly can be beautiful...” is extremely true in the movie
These weird child shit sex cults seem to be way more common in western democracies and monarchies allied with western powers than the traditional fashy powers lol
12 Minute review and I still have no idea what this movie is about... thanks chief👍
You watched the whole video but didn't read the one-sentence synopsis in the description?
You're welcome!
(This is actual a general issue that I have, where I write these things under the assumption that someone would only watch a video about a movie they had some knowledge of. This isn't a good assumption, and it's something I intend to address in the future. So, ya know, fair enough.)
Touche....
John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
@@TheWeekIReviewwe literally clicked and watched this video to get a synopsis IN THE VIDEO. Why in the world would I watch this video that doesn’t state anything about why you reviewed it this way and have to read a one sentence synopsis? Maybe video reviews aren’t your thing?
I watched back to back review (that also showed censored clips) of Cannibal Holocaust, A Serbian Film, and Salo a few days ago because I doubt I could stomach the films themselves
But out of all of them I had a Salo themed nightmare just this morning. And I think it’s because I cant get it out of my head how real the situation in Salo felt and how sick it was that it’s likely happened many times throughout history. The situation was so helpless and really one of my greatest fears
Salo I think is the most horrifying of those conceptually, though in practice actually watching it's by far the easiest of the three to stomach. The animal killings in Cannibal Holocaust are rough, and A Serbian Film literally dropped my jaw with how horrible the finale is.
i had a dream with the actors' faces in them. salo really sticks with you.
A Serbian film was the WORST!!!!!
As I watched this movie I came to realize that nobody on this planet is truly good. Evil is all around us. There could be literally sex trafficking victims experiencing something similar towhat those kids expect. I’m traumatized now
Damn
Yes there is. It's all in the dark web. You will see how evil humans are.
Thanks for reviewing this without showing images! I like knowing things about films like this, but I don’t have the heart or the stomach to watch scenes even tho I’m genuinely curious 😅
Yeah... I didn't want to get age gated, and there aren't many moments in the entire film to show that wouldn't get me gated.
This is just an extra benefit!
Salo is one of those movies I feel I can't call myself a film buff without watching, while I also would like to hold on to my sanity.
all my attention was on this guys perfect teeth.
Anaïs Phoenix-Boyd if you don’t like it than eat Sh!t than. I bet a crappy smelling breath smells better than a Clean Toothpaste Breath.
He is very pretty and symmetrical
@@SigmundFreud187 what
@@bunnie187 that’s what was said in Salo the movie.
Damn. you can just tell by the look on his face he's seen some shit.
I just finished watching it.
I will admit, I cried at the end of it.
The film is made that you just cannot get a chance to deeply empathize with the victims and forces you to be in a seat where you have no power but to have to engage with the fascists/capitalists.
It made a feeling of being helpless against power. Having only the ability to ask questions, and be forced to continue things you may not want to do or experience at all.
It felt like you were observing it happen, and powerless to do anything or save anyone.
Unlike other “disturbing” movies, where you are immersed, it was almost, for me, like the movie kind of made you a willing participant, and question your own role in it.
Almost like watching it is its own act of complacency to it.
Idk. Might just be me trying to make sense of a lot of questions I still have, and I don’t know will ever be able to be answered.
Instead of being purely viscerally disturbing, it was a, mental and intellectually that I was not ready for.
Best movie I can never recommend anyone see.
Also, I’m going through those lists of “most disturbing” movies as well. And I was so confused as to why one of those movies was in a criterion collection.
Cinematically and artistically wonderfully. I can see why.
But also, oof. It’s a heavy weight. Close to the same feeling when I visited concentration camps turned into museums.
Just tough heavy feelings afterwards.
Did you notice that the only reason they were acting as sex crazed maniacs was not shown ? They were mainlining cocaine continuously!
John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
"The perfect date movie."
- Bill Hader
Imagine the alternative ending where the allied or soviet troops barged in to kill the fascists
Isn't that the HollyWood version?
That sounds boring and very Disney. We have many many many movies like that already.
this movie was really hard to sit through, some of the things that happened i could not BELIEVE were happening 😭
This movie is something. I saw it at a young age and watched it now I can’t forget it
I just saw it and some scenes seemed really familiar.
@@iamfilleg i can't get it out of my head
@@sangeovr I watched it again a few weeks ago with a friend. It sure makes an impression. It really feels like the film maker wanted to show the depravity if a godless world. I don’t agree with him in the slightest, but it’s an interesting take.
@@iamfilleg true
I chewed on ginger root and watched the entire movie needless to say the ginger helped kill some physical pain
I’ve watched so many reviews on Salo and not gotten much out of it, but your voice is so soothing and you’re one stunning looking man that I don’t even care.
where can i watch this someone link me it
This movie shows what sadism is and how fucked people in power could really be that’s why the maker of this movie was killed right before it was released the powerful don’t want us to know how weird they truly are and how they view us actually .
Pasolini was murdered (by the mafia) for showing the hobbies of the one percent at the time. Or more likely revenge for the minors he probably traumatized to finish the film.
Nobody knows
Anyone know where i can watch with English subtitles??
i’m so concerned that in the horror ice berg this film is only on the third tier
Should I watch it?? Do you know if they are minors in this ??
@@limellama1490 I have never watched but I am already disturbed just from reading into it. To answer your question, yes all the victims are minors
@@itszacharyhere8564 in real life?!?! Dude I watched it 🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢
@@limellama1490 The more I read into it the more intrigued I am in watching it. But I know it’s gonna fuck me up 🤢
@@itszacharyhere8564 Dont. Freakin. Do it.
Como faço para assistir o filme ,?,não consigo achar em nenhum site ,(português,Brazil)
I’m jealous of your ability to articulate. I am curious about your take on Pink Flamingos
We're living in times similar to Noah's time before the flood
Can you watch This in Denmark or do i haft fo buy a vpn
Honestly Salo is a good starter movie for someone looking to get into extremely messed up films. Its repulsive, but not overwhelming, its watchable. I honestly feel like people exaggerate this movie. The repulsive scenes are few and theyre short. The movie is not 2 hours of nonstop feces consumption like people make it sound.
It is a political movie
Yeah they exaggerate it. I thought it was pretty messed up but it's not. It's watchable and boring. I prefer reading the books.
Anybody know where I can watch this?
shirvy just google “salo stream”. Or buy it on Criterion’s website. It’s hard to find a free version with English subtitles
I truly believe in pizzagate so this movie is even more scary just for that fact because things like this happen and it’s just traumatizing my sister watched it she’s 28 she was so shocked and upset after watching it she told me not even to look it up and after of course I did lol but I haven’t watched it just scenes and the plot alone is terrifying
You should stop truly believing in pizzagate, considering the pizza restaurant in question does not have a basement in which the supposed events that inspired pizzagate would have taken place.
Things like this definitely do happen, but it's really not some big exciting conspiracy at the highest levels of government, and thinking that it does gives the actual criminals who are all acting well outside of that cover.
@@TheWeekIReview Why'd the ONE bullet he shot go through a hard drive?
Donde esta el link para ver completa?
I would like to hear more of a take on the meaning of certain scenes in the film. Just interested in diving deeper and hearing other opinions.
So I just finished watching the movie and it is disgusting however it didn't really evoke any emotion from me... it wasn't dark it's done in a Whimsical way I guess if that makes sense... and yet I don't think I could handle the book... I would think the book has to be really dark especially if you're like me and you mind tends to go to the dark side....
I'm trying to watch the movie were can I see it ? Also your very pretty nice smile😘
@@shyjokarz9388 I just Googled it and something popped up and I clicked on it and it was the movie I didn't download it I just watched it
I think that gets at what one of the other guys who commented on this was saying, which is that it is meant to keep you at a distance and remove the emotion so you can consider its meaning dispassionately. I am also a bit leery of the book, which seems to me more like it will actually genuinely enjoy being grotesque where the film does so as a matter of fact to make its point.
@@TheWeekIReview well his plan definitely worked!.. what really drove home the point he was trying to make for some strange reason is when the older women was at the dinner table and she said something to the effect of "eat eat they all made this delicious dish for you" and of course you know what that was ...it just kind of drove his point home with me😘
@@TheWeekIReview Michel Foucault placed Sade as one of the two kinds of limit literature--unreadable--both because it had been unobtainable (censored) and because his books are so long and repetitious with breaks in the story for long essays opposing natural law, supporting atheism, defending crime, etc. His description is correct. Sade's books could only have been written at the end of the 18th century. I have described Sade as "the end of the Enlightenment"--both as its culmination and its ultimate critique. (I've read about half his books, The 120 Days of Sodom among them.) Philosophically, these books are dynamite capable of destroying everything the Enlightenment stood for. I consider him among the most important philosophers of the 18th century.
(Foucault's other kind of limit literature was the unavoidable books--the ones that have so many copies printed that there's literally
enough for most of the population.)
The 120 Days is an unfinished manuscript Sade thought had been lost or destroyed. It was discovered decades after his death. The first part is completely written out. The remaining three parts are in outline. Is it worth reading? I guess so, but if I were recommending a book for someone new to Sade, I think I'd go with Philosophy in the Bedroom instead.
Where can we watch this? It's not on Netflix, RUclips or Prime
where can i watch it?/???
Anybody knows where I can get the movie?
Love your content. Refreshing to hear a more in depth video on the topic. Absolutely love it. Thanks for the deep dive. I truly appreciate intellectual individuals. :D
where did yall watch the movie?
Where can I watch it
We’re can you watch it at
Halfway through watching this movie i started having like an out of body experience trying to find a happy place where the events that took place in this film were nonexistent.
Where do I watch its
I have read the book 120 days of sodom and this guys description of the movie perfectly describes the feeling of the book down to the smallest details (except of course the connections to fascism). I dont want to watch the movie because I would never want to see the things I read in the book depicted in motion picture.
I'm just gonna be honest with you, the movie is nowhere near as disturbing as the book. The book makes the movie look like nothing.
The book is 10 times more disgusting than the book
The movie looks like a family movie compared to the book
HOW is the book worse than the movie. I haven't watched it, but god
Where do I find this movie
Where can I watch this movie ?
Where can i watch sàlo?
Where can u watch this movie ?
I read an article somewhere that said the ending is the reward. You're built up to this grand punishment the masters laid out and they keep saying it's gonna happen and when it happens....oof. Coincidentally it just is.
Where could I watch this
I like your Christmas decorations. Happy holidays.
jesuitmatthew this comment made me burst out laughinggggg omggg
Okay but where can I watch it???
Saw the film, and I was a little disappointing, I feel that it often can't decide wether if it's a statement about power or corruption or a true adaptation of the Marquis' work, but even if the contents were a little unfocused to my taste, I really loved the composition of every shot, but wasn't enough for me to save the move, though.
funny that you mention pizzagate, because now we have the Epstein case, ya know, a bunch of really wealthy and powerful people in an unreachable location, with a lot of children trapped to satisfy their desires and no laws or moral restraint, a near exact real life School of Libertinage, which further reinforces the relevance of this movie in our time, as a reminder that power can indeed corrupt, and should not go unhinged nor unwatched
Where can you find it?
Where i can watch this movie??
I'm living for your replies in the comments xD looking forward to see how your newer content differs from this video.
I saw it. I kind of new what to expect before hand(didnt expect the buckets of human shite)
I'd LOVE to see a Tarantino remake with a sick twist ending. It'd be a TRUE masterpiece.
can anyone find the full movie ?
I remember reading Sade's 120 Days of Sodom in high school thinking they'd never make a movie of this. How wrong I was.
I'm still trying to figure out what the one boy was writing with his finger on the floor. All I got was "AL DIO"
i am not mentally prepared for this film the wiki article says it's the 65th scariest film of all time and that also in all gruesome ways
Who’s here from tiktok
Me lmao
where did you watch it? i cant find anywhere to watch it :(
I was at a friend's house with a group of friends and I just couldn't finish it. I stand up and left...I was sick for the next few days
I watched this when I was 13 and I have never forgotten about it, I think it's one of the movies that got me into film as well as the thought process behind dark and twisted movies such as this one. It in my opinion is a movie full of metaphors but definitely not for the faint of heart. I really did not enjoy it because it truly made me sick but at the same time I was interested in the dialogue and the direction by the director.
I hope that’s not the only thing you’ve seen from him, his docs and his movies and the courage he had at that time in a place like Italy, very sad to have lost one of the greatest philosophers
I've recently re-watched this movie in my 30's and it cleared up a lot of confusion and, what one may argue, "trauma" in my younger years. I was probably 12/13 years old when I watched original Italian version ... with no subtitles ... LOL.
If you've seen this movie, you could imagine how that could confuse and disturb the shit out of a little kid, ... especially with not knowing what the HELL anyone was saying the whole time. I'm glad that at least now, I can laugh about it, lol(?).
We’re can you watch it at?
@@justintimus4008 online
It is so surreal to see someone so beautiful to talk about something so ugly and disgusting, I felt the same about many of the actors and actresses that participate in that
Hey can anyone explain the ending I didn’t get it right.
Honestly I didn't get it either it was pretty disgusting though
At the ribbon ceremony, the libertines make a separation between those that have learned the lessons from the storytellers and the libertines' torments and those who had not. Those who leaned will join the libertines' entourage to rejoin the world in Salò. The ones who failed would be tortured and slaughtered as the libertines take turns coldly gazing upon the spectacle from on high.
Then one of the boys agrees to try to dance though he doesn't know how. The the other boy asks the name of the boy's girlfriend, and the movie ends with him saying his girlfriend's name. They have held on to their own identities throughout the whole ordeal. They have learned what their captors had to teach them. They have internalized the fascism of their captors, and the whole lot of them will become victims soon enough. Not even Mussolini was safe in Salò.
@@construct3 *Boyfriend
@@FlagAnthem No. "Girlfriend." Her name is Margarita.
I watched Salo some years ago on RUclips, before they got strict with censorship, needless to say it has been burned into my memory forever😵
2 years later, and I’m here. :)
This film does not translate well into U.S. culture, a reason being the largely simple expectations that Americans bring to their movie viewing experience. I remember seeing it in a theatre on East 57th Street at its initial release in 1975: my girlfriend and I were one of maybe 5 straight couples in the packed auditorium: it was a heavy male S+M crowd. Even then, when one was seeing it against a backdrop of a much stronger art house environment and when one was seeing it in the flow of his other films, it was being poorly read (it is a film that is "read"), it was being read "out of context".
To understand the film, especially today, some 45 years after its release, you must do a serious dive into the film's intellectual foundation. Fortunately, Pasolini himself helps you with this: read his "In Danger: A Pasolini Anthology". And then see some of Pasolini's other films, particularly the Gospel According to Matthew and The Hawks and The Sparrows.
Unfortunately, TIWR does not do that work. The bibliography at the beginning of the film is in fact there for a reason. Yes, it is not pretense, and though TIWR sees the clue, he doesn't seize it. This has to be one of the flat-out laziest and dumb-dumber-and-dumbest reviews of any film that I have ever seen. The fact that it is a review of THIS film: heaven help us who sat through this eleven and a half mind-numbing minutes of trite, adolescent observation. A place for him to start to get some actual insight would be to recognize that the feeling that he had of being outside of the film is not from the uncomfortable seats, but from a conscious aesthetic philosophy and practice on the part of the director that was first promulgated by Gramsci and Brecht.
That said, the Metrograph is a great place to see vintage art house films. It reminds me of the old Bleecker Street and Carnegie Hall Cinemas. There are fewer and fewer art houses left: support them!
Man, this was harder to get through than the movie. ;)
You're reminding me of a conversation I had with a Korean woman while standing in line at the New York Asian Film Festival a few years ago. She asked me what my favorite Korean movie was, and I told her it was Kang Hyeong-cheol's Sunny, which is my go-to answer in part because it's not necessary untrue but mostly because it was extremely popular in Korea while being a fairly deep cut for a random white dude. She said, "I don't think you can understand that movie."
And she may well be right.
But.
Being probably ignorant to some of the historical nuance of that movie does not diminish my enjoyment of it. And regardless of what you or Pasolini think, I don't feel like I need to understand the entire philosophical canon to say things about this movie. I understand that feeling, particularly since this is an old movie and so this was a more specific choice than, say, reviewing a newer film like Roma might have been. But... as I said in the video, there was less than 36 hours between my recentest viewing and the video going live. That is a function of the way this channel works. There's only so much background I can do in that time, and tbh it was less than both you or I would have liked.
Where I specifically agree (sort of) with you is re: its Brechtian aesthetic. I think I intended to more directly talk around that idea instead of outright saying "I have heard of Berthold Brecht and see his influence in the direction of this movie" than I ultimately did. When describing Salo to people, I have typically used the word "Voyeuristic" to describe the disconnect that you feel as a direct result of its directorial decisions versus something like A Serbian Film, which puts you in the action directly. I didn't use that word here, and I probably should have while better describing its implications.
Fair enough.
But, I have also seen this movie before, and even though I felt distance then, it was hugely magnified in this different setting. I settled into it (perhaps despite Pasolini's best efforts) on my couch in a way I didn't in those seats that I have hated ever since I first went to the Metrograph however many years ago it opened. I could certainly have more artfully articulated the point or expanded upon any number of things... but I didn't. As I said in my outro: I'm sorry that you didn't like it.
Thanks for watching! :)
You were wearing a beret when you typed that I bet lol
Turtle neck and a scarf too
@@TheWeekIReview I thought you did a bang-up job. Okay, so you haven't read Simone de Beauvoir's "Must We Burn Sade?" or Pierre Klossowski's "Sade My Neighbor," and they are, I'm sure, worth reading. (I've only browsed them.) And you're right that however pretentious a bibliography at the end of the opening credits might be, it's not gratuitous; it's there for a reason.
And okay, you didn't do a deep dive into the social and political implications of the film, but what you did give was fair warning in both necessary directions: (1) Don't see it if you have a weak stomach, and (2) don't see it if you're just looking for torture-porn. I would call it a tough but rewarding art-house flick, and you got that point across in your own words.
I wrote a little essay called "The Beauty of Salò" looking at its aesthetic features. It was a subversive response to all the nonsense I keep hearing about how "disturbing" the movie is or isn't. I guess with a movie like this, you need to know ahead of time sort of what you're in for, and I think you did a fair job of warning and enticing viewers at the same time. I'd give Salò a little higher rating than 7.5, but 7.5 is in the ballpark. You should be proud of this review.
"We fascist are the only true anarchist"
Amazing movie, and amazing review my friend
were can i watch this
On the app called Dramatics
The film its not specifically about the fashist or nazi era nor the director was trying to make an adaptation of the Marquis De Sade novel "120 days of Sodom", to serve his peculiar sexual preferences.
The film is a metaphor on Power. The hole thing about being placed in a fashist era is just a pretext for saying that ; as in the 18 century (in the Marquis time) or in the fashist period as well as in the capitalistic systems (for Pasolini, 1975) the Power has always "conserved" its esence even if his forms has changed in different eras.
In fascism by creating obedient and disciplined bodies and in capitalism the body becomes an object, a merchandise to be sold for pure consumeristic hedonism.
The film also uses the Artaud and Brechtian techinques which doesn't permit the spectator to identify him or herself with the characters, or to feel that he is represented by them on psycological level. In the film the plot its of no importance, what matters is the situation. The main goal in Brechtian theatre is to shock the viewers. Its a shock for the intelect (it de-alienates you) not the kind of shock which you get from horror films (the confrontation with horror or splatter movies is of utter nonsense, that is for people in continuous search of adrenaline) which purpose its to exploit of your emotions.
Pasolini used this technique in order for you to have a cold view and a detached feeling so there is no sense of justification or empathy from the viewer towards what is happening. This allows the viewer to have a more critical and conscious approach to the film.
It explains why you might feel digusted about it (its on purpouse).
This tecnique excludes even the fascist era thing (common misinterpretation).
In the film you never see e svastica a Hitler or a Mussolini's portrait or they never do the fashist salute.
The main Idea is that the anarchy of power manipulates the bodies making them mere objects of pleasure for the subjects in Power (Law, Clergy, Economy, Society elites).
Anarchy of power doesn't belong to any history in particular but it has always been within the eternal notion of Power which arbitrarily codifies the reality of the bodies and of the spirit . Its the Power's paradoxical nature.
About the classical art references, Pasolini uses the art to depict the decadentistic taste of European borguoise. Just read D'Annunzio or Huysmans to get the idea.
About the communist ideology within the film, its the juxtaposition of the Marxist dialectic of servant and master which for Pasolini is the same of that depicted by the Marquis de Sade, of victim and the executioner. In fact De Sade in one of his books says that the victim wich suffers from the tortures of his or her executioner tends to develop a masochistic feeling towards him/her after a while. Pasolini uses this juxtaposition to say that this is the same relation in the capitalistic society between borguoise and the working class, the exploiters and the exploited. Where the last one has lost any hope for a better world ( the communist dream) and prefer to conform to the world of their masters.
In the film, if you remember, no one of the victims rebel they all have exepted their destiny. This is the apocalyptical message of the film.
I’m not gonna read all of that
@@omar90s91 I think nobody is forcing you to do that.
I noticed the victims were submission and didn't even try to escape. I know I would of
Some tried to escape, but were killed.
@@suriyamclean5625 I feel as though the majority of people would’ve however they would reach a point in which they would stop fighting back due to lack of moral or just trauma. This is seen several times within history and it tells the tale of how a human mind can be stretched oh so far until it cripples into submission of some sort.
And yet as a society we so often tell ourselves that we would differ from those people even though we (in current society) have submitted in one way or another to something of some sort.
I feel like that is so often not an easy pill to digest.
How can I watch this movie
I used 123movies
Wheres the link?
"a nice palate cleanser" hahahahaha. this made me laugh. :D
Had to watch it as part of a university class. You will never eat sausages or chocolate mousse again.
your rule was really true..... after 8 years its still fresh in my mind
Anyone watching this after the Epstein scandal?
Salo movie will be stuck in mind who watching it...
yonkou Kaido what website did u watch it on?
@@scuancio7900 it's a long2 time ago.. i'm watching on dvd
Scuancio Fair warning though I don’t think it’s as fucked up as everyone is making it out to be. Was it fucked up? For sure but it’s definitely not gonna traumatize me lol.
Scuancio order it off eBay. Go get an eBay gift card from your local gasoline station and get on eBay and buy it.
Or burn it off the internet and pass the movie out to people.
I watched it on effedupmovies.com
This dude gives off total Chris Traeger vibes
Can someone share me link of this movie
You can buy it on Criterion’s website
@Shad Abdulla why?
Where is this available to watch?
Just Google it,I think it's on RUclips
Where do I find it ?
Download the app called Dramatics
I’ve never seen this movie in a theater with other people, if I get an opportunity I might given how you’ve described your experience with it though
Where can I stream Salo? Don’t want to own it.
You can only buy the dvd to watch
One of the few films that truly disturbed me. Took months to get this film out of my head, and would only recommend to those who can truly handle such depravity.
Wait no why do you not have more subs?! Your content is GOOD
How does this compare to the full version of Caligula?
The full version of Caligula is a joy ride, a pleasant diversion, compared to Salò.
Caligula is more direct and explicit
Both sexually and political commentary.
Salò is more... subtle
Very few do understand it
Bro u should have more subs and views.
I completely agree! Thank you for saying so.
The Week I Review You're welcome!
We’re can I watch it
I can’t find it anywhere
LukeWeir13 goto your local gas station or Walmart and buy an eBay gift card than buy the movie off of eBay.
Thanks for your time and consideration.