axel_caro_g Reviews

Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975)

A dark, vicious and sadistic film

[4/10 · 24 February 2008]

I first saw this film in Italy just after release and now, some 30 years later. In both instances, I was utterly depressed with the violence, corruption and the sadistic way of treating people depicted on the film. Some consider it a "cult movie" but I find it so depressing because of the pessimistic view of society that Passolini gave to the story.

This horror trip that almost "smells" has no sense at all, besides taking viewers through the Hell, as Dante did. But Dante is Dante, and Passolini is not Dante.

In all, this film is for people that enjoy watching extreme brutality with young human beings.

If I have to find something positive, is the acting of some of the older characters, especially the women that tell stories as a preface for the next section of the film.

Motorpsycho! (1965)

Waste of time and money!

[1/10 · 21 February 2008]

This is a lousy, B/W movie with actors and actresses that do not deserve to be called as such. Really a sub-product of something called "cinema". You do not know what to do: to cry or to laugh watching these characters posing in front of the camera in a plot that takes them to nowhere, and written to allow these three bad guys to go places killing people for no reason at all and raping women. Nobody has a convincing role in the film. There are evident mistakes in continuity, such as car tires that repair themselves, so to speak. To add more disappointment, it seems that the copy I bought had been edited. Do not waste your time and money watching it.