Where to watch: Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom : r horror - Reddit Pasolini is a master director (Rest in Peace) Ppl who say Salo horrifying disturbing are 100% correct But they need the historical and cultural context Italian film can’t be paraphrased or reduced to our modern day perspectives
Just watched Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, Whats the Message? In Salo, they don't — the antagonists degrade their captives, their families, and themselves equally The saying is “absolute power corrupts absolutely” Salo shows us absolute corruption, but it doesn’t have much else to say other than absolute corruption is horrific That doesn’t make it a bad movie, necessarily
I just watched Saló, or 120 Days in Sodom, and have never . . . - Reddit On one level, I think Salo is brilliant I think it's visually stunning As far as satire is concerned, it's perfect and let's face it, does not pull a single goddamned punch anywhere in it's run time The choice of using a near scene-for-scene lifting of The 120 Days of Sodom was a good choice for showing the excesses of the rich In your
Is Salo worth watching? : r criterion - Reddit In Salo, they don't — the antagonists degrade their captives, their families, and themselves equally The saying is “absolute power corrupts absolutely” Salo shows us absolute corruption, but it doesn’t have much else to say other than absolute corruption is horrific That doesn’t make it a bad movie, necessarily
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom is the most disturbing film I . . . - Reddit Salo is an art film It's hard to discern a cohesive plot, these scenes are like individual hallucinations Nothing's intended to be realistic, the plot's not clear, the characters are just more props for a scene, and scene after scene is some weird, wild shit
Is “Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom“ the sickest horror . . . - Reddit Salo has a reputation other films mentioned here will probably not touch There is so much wrapped around it's mere existence that makes it just as fascinating as the movie itself First there is the movie being used as a reason for authorities to try to close down a gay book store on grounds of "Pandering" leading to a trial where the likes of
Salò (120 Days in Sodom)[1975][English Subtitles] - Reddit Not to mention before the recent rerelease the Salo DVD was one of the hardest-to-find titles out there The old Criterion release was going for hundreds of dollars on eBay The first time I saw it was without subtitles because that's all that was available I had a conversational understanding of Italian so it wasn't easy
Why is Salò so popular? : r criterion - Reddit Well, no, because child sexual abuse is a problem that can be depicted in art in realistic fashion and actually happens in real life (also, the most common form of sexual abuse is men cat-calling teenagers, not men raping children), whereas Salo posits that fascists were literally eating shit and masturbating to children having their cocks
Are Cannibal Holocaust, A Serbian Film, and Salo: 120 Days of . . . - Reddit Salo is a legitimately great movie from an excellent director Cannibal Holocaust is a fun one, and the simulated violence isn’t terrible- it’s the animal killing that’s rough If you can stomach that, the rest of the movie is worth watching imo Serbian Film is definitely skippable though
Just watched Salo for the first time and I need someone to . . . - Reddit Correct, and Pasolini cites the source in the title But he thought it an apt source for an allegory of the depravity, violence and corruption of the fascist regime The Republic of Salo, set up by the Nazis after they liberated Mussolini from captivity, was a short-lived puppet state which was infamous during its time