Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom Review

In this review, I look at perhaps the most controversial film of all time.

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[phoenix9909]

man i just saw a serbian film, but man this looks way worse from what i just heard, do they actually show the penis getting burned or it implied?

[genericperson12]

@phoenix9909 They show it, but it's at a distance and very brief. I would actually consider A Serbian Film to be more disturbing than Salo, though Salo is far more disgusting.

[vins1979]

Guys, please: do not mix Pasolini's 'Saló' with regular horror or 'sick' movies. Pasolini's movie has a deep political message. In one scene, one of the 'master' says that 'the true anarchy is power, because if you have power you can do whathever you want with whoever you want'. This movie depicts the structure of power as imposed on people's bodies and how people become manipulated: they even betray other people to please the men of power, who force them to eat shit and, at the end, kill them!

[jpc08109]

I wonder if the actors in the film actually read the script before singing the contract to do the film

[Dataceruption]

ya read about it in a film book and it looked just fucked and now that i see this and i see that i really dont want to watch thanks for the "PSA" ill pass on this one

[tyknos93]

Not Dante's inferno but a direct adaptation of 120 days of sodom by the Marquis de Sade

[dRpAnKy97]

ART?! How the F*ck can any one call this art? Graffiti is art, This is just sick

[TheLoboFairchild]

@VampireOutlaw Really, cause I have never heard anyone refer to pet cemetery as "complete inappropriate filth", mostly I hear people say it was easy reading or at the very least entertaining, which I admit, I did enjoy it, but I am not a big King fan, every novel is the same point just under a different pre-tense, anyway, you have a different opinion to me, and I can't change that. Some things are just not for certain people. :)

[VampireOutlaw]

@TheLoboFairchild There are people who consider Pet Sematary to be "completely inapproriate filth" so I can only imagine what they'd say about Salo...But do I accuse them of weak mind and being too afraid, or not take them seriously? No. Because the bottom line is not whether something scares and traumatizes or not, but what kind of a horror one considers a tasteful and effective way to bring up a specific point. And this is not such to me.

[VampireOutlaw]

@TheLoboFairchild I used my browser's search tool. You seem to be the only one on this entire comment table who's ever talked about haunting. So, again, I never said fictinal things haunt me, as in I do not let fictional things haunt me. And images do stick with you too. Your mind isn't a superhuman mind that miraculously completely erases anything your eyes saw. Images stick with you as long as they're there at all. How often they pop up is irrelevant.

[TheLoboFairchild]

@VampireOutlaw Nah you are just too afraid to branch out, that is all, ok I respect that you read "dark stories" but when you mentioned King as a reference then I just stopped taking you seriously, their are much better horror novelists than king, Ryu Murakami for example, Koji Suzuki, and Peter Straub, check them out, you should check out De Sade too, cause like you said you have read "sick and dark" so therefore Sade should be a walk in the park, and his stories have incredible points to them

[VampireOutlaw]

@TheLoboFairchild And I'll have you know I'm in late 30's and read many kind of sick and dark stories (as I've been a huge fan of horror since childhood), but I require more from the stories I get into. The hell with "symbolism", "historical value" or "psychological study possibbility" if there is no moral or lesson of if it can be told in more tasteful way. "We are not free" can be told clearly and effectively in more tasteful ways. The points & lesson in Pet Sematary can not.

[VampireOutlaw]

@TheLoboFairchild Oh, puh-lease. It's not over his reputation, it's for what I know the book contains. The only reason I don't want to read the novel is because I'm not into reading sick shit that has no moral lesson behind it that other kind of story could not tell, b/c in such cases I see it pointless. "Historical value" is not enough to make it worth reading, "psychological study" is not enough to make it worth reading as I am not aiming to becom a psychiatrist.