Salo or 120 days of Sodom was a movie like nothing you could have ever seen.. Its the most disturbing movie with the least amount of blood.. Coming to the story.Its about the torture of some innocent youth by four fascist libertines,which is a direct and an extremely graphic adaptation of the novel of the same name by Marquis De Sade. Pier Pasolini made a very powerful and a daring point in this movie about the true nature of violence in all of us. It was a social and historical satire and in a vague sense, a study of humans.
Pasolini,in this way,points his finger at all the human beings.. But was it what Pasolini exactly portrayed..? That basic point of violence was covered and hidden beneath a lot of sleazy sexual assaults with unspeakable and despicable acts of torture.. At a point of watching the movie,I wondered if mankind could really sink to such depths.. It was terribly depressing and disgusting in its own way.. But still,Salo must be respected for such a powerful and a daring point it made.
But the movie doesn't take more than a 6 out of 10 from me because of all the violence that fogged up this point.. Perhaps,there should have been more drama or emotion.Instead of that,what I saw was more disgusting violence and more torture..
This Italian movie should be watched with extreme caution and only by the strong hearted.
Pasolini,in this way,points his finger at all the human beings.. But was it what Pasolini exactly portrayed..? That basic point of violence was covered and hidden beneath a lot of sleazy sexual assaults with unspeakable and despicable acts of torture.. At a point of watching the movie,I wondered if mankind could really sink to such depths.. It was terribly depressing and disgusting in its own way.. But still,Salo must be respected for such a powerful and a daring point it made.
But the movie doesn't take more than a 6 out of 10 from me because of all the violence that fogged up this point.. Perhaps,there should have been more drama or emotion.Instead of that,what I saw was more disgusting violence and more torture..
This Italian movie should be watched with extreme caution and only by the strong hearted.