Salo. Hrm. Interested in information about this movie.

[Raziaar]

Well, not so much information, as i've been doing alot of review reading, but i'm curious to know from those who have watched it. All the reviews talk about the utter utter horrible and brutal and disgusting things filmed in this movie. Are all these things filmed real, such as the feces eating, rapes, murders, etc? I'm just wondering, since the way the reviews make it sound like these are real things. Hrm.

Certainly won't ever watch this movie though. Heh. Here's those reviews that I read about it.

http://www.flipsidemovies.com/salo.html

http://www.allhorrormovies.com/ahmreviews-saloaod.htm

http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/RRCWL/V5/romanska.html


I mean damn. The guy who made the film was brutally murdered by a young boy prostitute shortly before the film's release I believe.

EDIT: And for some reason, this thing is worth hundreds of dollars.

http://www.geocities.com/indiansbsa/salo.html

 

[Lucid]

Pasolini was murdered brutally by Pino Pelosi, a hustler, by being run over several times with his own car at the beach of Ostia near Rome.

Wikipedia knows all! :O

IMDB page for Salo.

I can safely say that after reading all of that...
This movie is beyond ****ed up. :|

 

[Razor]

And i thought the only directors that create such movies were all Japanese :O

 

[Gray Fox]

Nah japanese aren't actually that bad, like for example the movie Battl;e royale sounds like something very disturbing or with so much blood and guts, but believe it's only the idea that is disturbing the violance is pretty kep to a minimum, hollywood is pretty much the place where the most disturbing movies are made.
a good review of battle royale to prove my example:
http://www.lotusreaver.com/reviews/index.php?section=battle_royale

anyway this movie may be horried but I think it is worth watching, far more gruesom things happen in real life then what is portrayed in this movie.

 

[CptStern]

I laughed my ass off after reading the article ..you made it sound like it was a Snuff Film ...Passolini was part of the avant garde italian film renassiance of the 60's. He's a celebrated artist along with his italian peers Fedrico Felinni, Bertolucci and Zeffirelli ..the movie in question is based on the Marquis de Sade's book about sado masochism: The 120 Days of Sodom. Marquis de Sade is infamous for his preverted novels that many nobels of the time played out. Harmless art film, NOT snuff

 

[Raziaar]

I laughed my ass off after reading the article ..you made it sound like it was a Snuff Film ...Passolini was part of the avant garde italian film renassiance of the 60's. He's a celebrated artist along with his italian peers Fedrico Felinni, Bertolucci and Zeffirelli ..the movie in question is based on the Marquis de Sade's book about sado masochism: The 120 Days of Sodom. Marquis de Sade is infamous for his preverted novels that many nobels of the time played out. Harmless art film, NOT snuff

<shrugs> I didn't know what it was. I was just reading articles. Sounds demented either way.

I mean, it was a bit of a surprise to me to here how shocked and disgusted people were with this film, in the stuff it showed, when nowadays, people are barely phases most when it shows depictions of rape, murder, and other things. The way the reviews sounded, was that it was rather more grotesque than all the crazy shit movies we have today, for one reason or another. So I was just curious about some of the stuff in the movie. Like where it says the slaves are made to eat their master's feces. They say how it was so gross they showed it... and I was just wondering if it was props or what.

And the parts where they talk about the flames being taken to the young mens genitals and being poked with pokers. The way they explain it makes it sound like there was actually parts of that going on in the film making.

 

[CptStern]

<shrugs> I didn't know what it was. I was just reading articles. Sounds demented either way.

I mean, it was a bit of a surprise to me to here how shocked and disgusted people were with this film, in the stuff it showed, when nowadays, people are barely phases most when it shows depictions of rape, murder, and other things. The way the reviews sounded, was that it was rather more grotesque than all the crazy shit movies we have today, for one reason or another. So I was just curious about some of the stuff in the movie. Like where it says the slaves are made to eat their master's feces. They say how it was so gross they showed it... and I was just wondering if it was props or what.

And the parts where they talk about the flames being taken to the young mens genitals and being poked with pokers. The way they explain it makes it sound like there was actually parts of that going on in the film making.

well you can imagine how the Marquis de sade's novel was taken by the general public when it was published back in 1785. The film by passolini is an art film in the spirit of luis bunel and salvador dali's film "un chien andalou". Usually only film buffs and art students watch new avant gaud cinema from the likes of Passolini, fellini etc