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Summary: a very important movie
Review: I saw this movie only on video and I can't barely imagine how you could see it in a cinema.It is very very tough.Real violence,but not Hollywood "violence" at all.It forces us to think about the nature of power.Salo is a unique phenomenon in the history of cinema,a black mass,a poem of death.It is a very important movie.
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Summary: Self-Indulgent, Sloppy, and Intentionally Sickening
Review: Tedious in the extreme, incredibly distasteful, often sickening,utterly without point, and (surprisingly, given its publicity) extremelyunerotic. It is a film I frankly wish I had never seen. Disgusting and without any redeeming value, purient or otherwise.
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Summary: Its all about Humanism
Review: When walking out of the cinema after seeing this picture, I was first of all shocked... I consider myself very broadminded, but this picture nearly tipped my scale. The reason why I say nearly, is that after a walking round in Copenhagen for a while with the film in mind I suddenly realised that what really happened in the cinema was a showing of what people - i.e. all of us - are capable of when dehumanising human beings.This film really showas what happens when you get convinced that there is a level of people underneath yourself, and that these particular beings are of a lower value than others and yourself. Then you are well on your way to becoming exactly as the sadistic men in this movie. Because what they really did was de-humanising people they thought were under themselves. They transformed humans into objects, life to meat. Therefore the film is not a farce and it is not just 'the worst/most disguting film ever made' because this is one of the only film really capable of showing the value of humanism, the value of human beings. And it does this by showing us what men are capable of when they forget that we are all equal...
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Summary: Strong, but I can't imagine anyone wanting to see it
Review: It's a hard movie to rate. While it is most likely the sickest movie ever made (at least, the sickest major movie I have seen), there is a message deep in there somewhere and is, in it's own little way, a good movie. While people can go on and about facism and sadists, what this movie is about (to me anyways) is the ultimate in evil. And it conveys that quite well. It's four "villains" I guess you can call them, are probably the most evil and dispicable people to ever grace the screen. They never feel bad about what they are doing and never seem to want to change. And worst off, they enjoy what they are doing. The film is quite graphic, Pasolini obviously trying to disgust people purposely. Which is the main problem with the film. More character should have been put into the film rather than repulsive scenes (or at least as much effort put into charater), a better understanding of not only the 4 fascists, but as well as the childern who had to endure their tortures. It's a horrifying film, all and all, and unfortunately will stay in my mind forever. While I think it's a rather powerful film, it has it's flaws. If you look at it as a regular film and get past it's depravities and just look at it as a movie, it has probelms in character and story. The movie could have been better actually in the narrative in my opinion, but obviously (as I said) pasolini just wanted to freak people out. And it worked. It disgusted me to the extreme and left me thinking, but I, in all honesty, could NEVER recommend this movie to anyone! (which is why I only give it 1 star)
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Summary: a film that sexy,powerfulbut absolutely sick
Review: I'm a people that loved pasolini very much.this film is the greastest film on his own .the scene that is very strongly powerful.just one word to describe to it "GREAT"
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Summary: A dramatization of Foucualt's notion of power/sex
Review: It is not surprising that this film appeared in 1970s. While those years seem so far away, they were much more progressive in many regards than 1990s and with no doubt an intellectually- vibrant period. In his books, Michel Foucault unravels the intricate relationships among power, sex, body and establishment. IMHO, Pasolini's Salo is an extreme dramatization of this web. A must-see for literature, humanities and critical theory students!
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Summary: A MONUMENT FOR ARTISTIC EXPRESSION
Review: The first time i saw this movie it was in a film festival and i was 18. For an 18-year-old youngster it was quite a big experience and since then i thought to myself that this film was the biggest cinematic experience i've ever had. It's also the reason why i became a director. The minute i left the theatre i had said to myself "i'm gonna be a film director and i'm gonna be as brave as him". That was the most important thing in this movie for me : Pasolini's courage and his uncompromising attitude about shouting out loud the things he believes in. Seeing this film again after 8 years i take it as a monument for the freedom of artistic expression. I have to admit that he wasn't a great director compared to some iconic names but the universe he created in his films, his originality and uniqueness, his humanitarian heart and once again most importantly his braveness in saying the unspeakable will make him remain as one of the most important artists of 20th century.
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Summary: The worst movie ever made
Review: S&M freaks will love it
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Summary: Difficult to watch, but worthwhile
Review: I'm no prude, but Pasolini's swan song was so difficult for me to view that I was forced to take a breather every five minutes. Still, the film is quite worthwhile and highly open to interpretation. It's obviously a scathing critique of fascism, blasting the fascists themselves, the church officials who sat back and watched them commit their atrocities, and the complacent Italian citizenry who put up with their leaders' inhuman crimes. But it's also, in my opinion, an attack on the audience, throwing just about every disgusting thing it can our way, before finally condemning those who made it all the way through in a brilliantly horrific climax that not only indicts the fascist officials but also the audience, with its deliberately voyeuristic presentation of skull-splittings, genital mutilation, and other such tortures, all viewed through a pair of binoculars. As others here have pointed out, this is not your typical Hollywood ending.
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Summary: Brain candy for the damned
Review: In this day and age of snotty teens, what's more entertaining than seeing a bunch of them forced to dine on feces? Salo is a glimpse into the politics of power; it's disturbing only because it forces us to confront our own perverse desires. Given complete control over a group of attractive adolescents, how much differently would anyone behave?
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