OK I got the message in the film (already voiced by just everybody else), but I think this film is one of the most disgusting, sick, vile pieces of garbage ever made. The film actually left a bad taste in my mouth and I almost threw up! Rape, torture, sexual humiliation, sadism, scatology--you name it, this movie has it! Pasolini made some good films ("Arabian Nights")--too bad this was his last one. I was "lucky" enough to see it in a theatre a few years ago--the audience groaned and booed and hissed at the end. Pasolini did NOT have to throw ever single torture and degradation in our faces--he seems to actually enjoy it! He could have made his point without being so needlessly sick. Some people go on and on saying this is a masterpiece. Bull! It's just a sick, degrading movie that tries to make a point (absolute power corrupts) while just pushing offensive material into the audiences faces. This film is no artistic achievement--it's, in my book, the worst film ever made. UPDATE! Criterion released it about a year ago and people are going on and on saying Criterion only releases artistic films of merit. Uh huh (EXTREME sarcasm). They did a special edition on Michael Bay's 1998 movie "Armageddon" which is easily one of the stupidest films ever made. Just because Criterion released it does not make it any masterpiece of cinema.
Review of Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
