Encapsulating Evil | Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom - Shocking Cinema
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- I hope this video illustrates to you that Salo is much more than just a shock movie. I'd love to hear what you all think about Salo in the comments down below. Don't forget to like and subscribe!
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Pasolini predicted modern Hollywood with this movie
Pasolini predicted modern society with this movie.
If someone remade this movie today it would have to take place on Epstein's island.
Have you seen the recent video about the making of The Wizard of Oz, how abused the actors were (a couple were scarred/damaged for life) and how hellish the production was? I'd say Hollywood has always been a shady place, who knows what horrors are going on right now that they're good at hiding.
Please don't the film is disgusting there are no redeeming features in it whatsoever it's horrible i fat to the ground total of 15 minutes of it and i started to be sick don't watch it with a family it could do somebody to be traumatized
@@stuartashbourne-martin9629 anyone who needs to be told salo shouldn't be viewed on family night is immune to any advice what a bit of Genius... goes in the same box as no Christmas Eve screening of irreversible...
Great video. There are 2 interesting things that you don't mention.
1. The suicide of the piano player. She never hurt or molested anyone throughout the movie, but realized that by standing aside while all of this went on, she was complicit. She was guilty.
2. In the final scene, the boys turn the radio dial and it shuts off the dark theme music from the murder scene. As we all often do, they used entertainment to block out the horrors that were happening around them, choosing a light distraction so they don't have to face their own reality. Inside this bubble, they relax and dance, but the murders are still happening.
I understood the piano player as the archetypal artist, who's love of life and craft is coopted and relegated to the backgrounds of the ruling class and therefore in essence destroyed.
1. The suicide of the piano player is an homage to the final scene of Roberto Rossellini's "Germany Year Zero" (1947), in which the main character, a boy named Edmund, jumps to his death through a hole in a bombed out building after having euthanized his father with poison in his tea and watching the coffin being carried away. Most of Pasolini's films (e.g., "Mamma Roma", "Uccellacci e uccellini", "Teorema") contain at least one unmistakable homage to Rossellini, who was his cardinal influence as a filmmaker.
2. My Italian professor, who wrote a chapter discussing "Salo" in one of his books, has stated that the last line of dialogue between the two boys dancing ("What's your girlfriend's name?" "Margarethe") is in fact a reference to Paul Celan's famous poem about the Nazi holocaust, "Todesfuge" ("The Death Fugue", written 1945; published 1948). In Celan's poem, the couplet "your golden hair Margarete / your ashen hair Sulamith" allegorically juxtaposes a character from Goethe's "Faust" ("Margarete", the woman seduced by Faust, representing Germany) with the woman mentioned in the Song of Songs in the Hebrew Bible ("Sulamith", the woman seduced by King Solomon, representing the Jews).
Indeed one who do not oppose evil is evil. Remember this there is only 2 ways, good and evil. There is no middle ground in universe.
@@mladendenni7062 there isn't?
@@declanp1 There is no good and evil.
The worst part of all of this is that his whole point collapsed on itself when he himself decided to sexually involve himself with minors-if he’s criticizing such behavior he can’t partake in it. It may have a message, but when I think of how it must feel to be one of the young men he groomed knowing he’s made this, it would feel like a mockery.
particularly since he was using his position of power as a schoolteacher to indulge his pederast urges. there is definitely some projection going on in this film.
An underrated take, honestly. The second I heard that information really made my ears perk up. What a shame that such debauchery would be committed to film and yet underwritten by the actions of a perverted creator.
Unfortunately I feel a film like this cant be made without some serious projection.
He did that therefore he has no say
That's maybe because most pedophiles are delusional about what they are doing. They tend to see themselves as the good ones "caring" for the kids. Some may know they are monsters and don't care about it. But a lot of them don't feel guilt and construct their own system of "values" around their deeds. Like stalkers that think they have a relationship with their victims.
It was great to learn that the actors were actually having a good time while filming and weren't traumatized or disturbed by it. Salo is often put in disturbing film lists alongside Cannibal Holocaust and that director treated the cast and extras very poorly.
RIP Ruggero Deodato tho
Yeah that's still freaky they was enjoying themself while acting this out.
Some of the actors were minors. Minors he committed certain acts with...
@Youngdagger well I’m not sure if that’s any better but still doesn’t seem like behavior that should be normalized :/
You can see some of them laughing and I can imagine how entertaining some of this would’ve been to film. Imagine a group of actors nude in this mansion, eating chocolate fudge off the floor.
One thing I find super interesting is how none of the cast really got how dark the movie was because they were all friends so the bad acts were nullified in their minds.
The most disturbing thing about the film is that there are people like this that exist/ have existed.
Metaphorically those kinds of opressors are everywhere, but with f.e. Epstein there are people literally doing things like this.
For that reason Salò would even be an important work of art if it wasnt as good as it is.
Definitely! This movie exposed How Horrible Reality can be, There are Tons of Sickos like these guys out there.
Makes you wonder how intense the other two films in the trilogy of death would've been
Along with "Teorema" (1968) and "Porcile" (1969), "Salò" arguably qualifies as the belated third installment in such a trilogy.
He did write the basis of a novel that was planned to be the second movie of the planned trilogy which was to be called "Petrolio", a criticism of state-sanctioned corporatism and Italy's foreign policy. It seems to have included three orgies and a scene where newborns were murdered in bizarre "bourgeois" rituals, so it would've been... worse.
I read somewhere that the second instalment of the Trilogy of Death was going to be about the life of Giles de Rais. I wonder also what the trilogy would have been like.
There's a whole trilogy 😳😳😳😳😳😳
@@lobi4836 "Planned". He died before going onto the second phase.
I’ve never wanted to watch but NOT watch a movie so badly lol truly conflicting
Just Watch it and get it out of your system
Ikr l. I hate it.
same i wanna watch it without watching jt
Right, I’m gonna need any crazy torture scenes edited out, at least one of which I already saw in the trailer wtf
Just power through it, cry if you need to, pretty sure I did. It lingers a bit, but I def think it was worth it
this is a very informative video about Salo, will definitely watch it with my family tonight.
Hey family we are gonna watch a wacky comedy about some rich guys who get into some shenanigans.
I just got it for movie night at my grandmas old folks home.
@nappyheadfredo
He meant it as a joke, not literally. XD
Greaaaaaat and expect ass whippin later
@robelle - I really hope you did watch it with your family, although I suspect you're joking.
;-)
The extremities depicted in this film are indicative of what kind of trajectory people like Epstein were looking to facilitate and what is more than likely happening now somewhere.
Totally that's exactly what I think epsteins island was a modern day salo
Yeah, really makes you think when they won't release Ghislaine Maxwell's "list". Gotta be a lot of biiiiiig names on that list
@@demyx0067 And almost certainly, The Donald is at the head of the list.
@@SkepticalSteve01 Why?
@@SkepticalSteve01 Hollywood is trans
Anyway, this is one of the very few movies I've seen that actually made me lose sleep. I haven't read 120 Days of Sodom, but I've read enough de Sade that I recognized his voice in the movie. The Marquis de Sade is the only author I've ever read who genuinely made me think that the world was a worse place because his writing exists, and made me feel like a worse person for having read it. This movie captures a similar unsettling feeling of grim despair. It's Hell on Earth. It shows you that evil is real. And I don't ever want to sit through it again.
I listened to the audio version of it. And I truly believe that de Sade is one of the grossest people to live. What’s worse is that his “book” is considered a historical treasure in France. (free on CZcams for those who want to torture themselves.)
Nice to hear others being deeply disgusted by that horrifying 'artwork'. I tend to believe a disgust for that is a sign of goodness.
Almost felt like 'finding God' after watching, despite being lifelong atheist. Will have to shake off the memory of it.
@@Counterreactionary I'm not kidding about this, but you can actually sort of read de Sade's work as a negative argument for the existence or necessity of God. It's like looking at a painting of a room that contains everything except the chair in the middle. When you notice the negative space, the chair is clearly expressed by its absence.
@@Thagomizer Interesting thought. I'm willing to believe that, but I don't understand the analogy: Is the chair here a metaphor for God and does the abscense of it indicate its obsoletion?
@@Counterreactionary The negative space where the chair should be is chair-shaped, so you have a clear notion of what's missing. I'm not sure that's the best metaphor, but you felt it yourself, going by your reaction to the movie. Maybe it's a really a variant of the moral argument, or the argument from desire?
Great video. I read the plot on Wikipedia before watching and was totally disgusted. This helped contextualize it and make it seem more like a statement piece rather than a snuff film.
To qualify as a snuff film, the actors themselves must be actually killed irl & not the fictional characters they play in a film's fictive storyline
Great tip. I copied your idea.
Yo selfie, great to see you here, would be great to see videos on film topics from you, if you make a actual return of course.
The statement is hollow and laughable considering the director was a pederast.
This wasn’t a brave genius statement, it was a mirror for the obsessive deeply disturbed and self-serving fantasies of the director.
But that's whst he's saying...media makes abomination mainstream by saying it's a "statement ".
I could not force myself to respect this movie or it’s creator. Some men are obsessed with exposing the dark and gritty when it’s just a mirror. They’re just looking straight into a mirror and thinking they’re geniuses
Stop being full of yourself we're all capable of these acts funny thing is that most of us would be involved if consequences didn't exist.
@@Godloveszaza Not sure what you mean by “we” there. I was referencing how he was intimate with a child. I’m pretty confident I’m not capable of torturing innocent people or pdophilia. I don’t think that makes me full of myself.
You put it so well. You watch it and you can tell it's a bit too personal..
@ratking927 yet it does
@@Godloveszazayou need to be put on a watchlist Jesus
The whole point of this movie collapses on it's own when you hear that he had sexually involved himself with a minor. At that point, it just ends up being a sick fantasy of a sexual deviant, since he himself was complicit in such behavior.
God damn, who fucking cares?
Yeah i'm not really interested in a film about the ugliness of the modern world and the corruption of power from a sexual predator.
I wouldn‘t say he got off on it, but i get your point
He had a mutual masturbation session with 16 year old boys. There was no penetration, stop acting like he was raping children. Just because you can't understand the film so you use this as reasoning doesn't make it right
Exactly. This was not based on anything mentioned, but his own evil inner workings and desires.
He was just as depraved. This was like a serial killer telling people killing is wrong.
There’s layers to crime. I wouldn’t say he’s *just* as depraved/bad as the evil cult
As a whole...the film is not watchable, when you see depraved men and women doing crime scenes all of the time...but Passolini had a point when fascism from the 40's could really set things in our fastfood consumerism/culture. He nailed it when it comes to what we see and suffer NOW! W.H.O ; W.E.F...all those tyrranic powers we have to deal with today! Yesteryear it was rightwing...now...
What did he do?
@@mclarsjNow, still right wing 😉
He was not depraved at all. He is known personally by many Italians in Rome and Salò and none of them claim this blind fact. Learn to seperate the artist from the artwork.
"Salò" can arguably be seen as the third installment in a film trilogy about the decadent and alienating effects of a modern postindustrial consumer-capitalist civilization, after "Teorema" (1968) and "Porcile" (1969). In all three of these films, Pasolini shows the degradation and destruction of traditional art and culture, natural family and sexual relations, and authentic religious beliefs and feelings among ordinary Italians.
"authentic religious beliefs". And who makes that determination, when "religion" tends to be in the realm of the non-/irrational?
@@jnagarya519 And what makes you think that YOU get to make the determination that "religion" (the word framed in pretentious, condescending scare quotes) "tends to be in the realm of the non-/irrational"?
But getting back to the main topic, Pasolini himself tended to associate authentic religious beliefs and feelings with the spontaneous joie de vivre of pre-industrial peasants who lived a traditional way of life close to the natural elements (like the Friulians and the Calabrians once did not so long ago). This ties into Pasolini's Gramscian Marxist sympathies: peasants typically lost their ancestral faith when they became corrupted by modernity and petit bourgeois aspirations.
Ok. What does Capitalism have to do with this film? War, and the extreme over-reach of a fascist seem to be the culprit here. Can you please elaborate on how "right leaning capitalist pigs" are to blame for the atrocities here?
@@frankbooth2427 You're missing the point entirely. No one said anything about "right leaning capitalist pigs". Capitalism makes possible the advanced industrial consumer economy which modern authoritarian systems of political and social control (Communism and Fascism) effectively hijack and feed off of like mutant parasites.
While an industrialized consumer capitalist economy raises the material standard of living for large numbers of people, it also brings about a profound disruption of traditional pre-industrial relations.
Historically, this disruption tends toward an oppressive top-down over-mechanization, over-commodification and homogenization of society and culture, which causes individuals to become alienated, apathetic and atomized.
@@lysanderofsparta3708 they're always irrational.
Years ago, I drove along the sea-front of Ostia and remember seeing the bare ground, not knowing that this was where Pasolini may have been murdered. Fascinating character.
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Had it coming. He was no different from his “libertines” in this movie except that he lacked absolute power over his prey.
@@eerkesCommitting Murder is cowardly.
@@Rage_Harder_Then_Relax Wrong sir, not murder. Justice.
@@eerkes Did he murder people and feed them shit?Didnt know that about Pasolini.
After seeing Salo', I knew Hell was a real place and I didn't want to go there! I watch a lot of "shock cinema" and usually can't wait to tell someone: "You've got to see this! It's so messed up!" This is the one I warn people off of. If someone is a little depressed, this could put them over the edge. Pasolini truly did as he was trying for. Making a film about the utter degradation and destruction of the human soul. Of all those films that people say are "cursed", this is the one that I think MIGHT be.
IMO the movie was boring and stupid
Money is evil, give me all of your money or you’re going to hell.
Obviously you've never seen "A Serbian Film" (uncut version).
I'm not exaggerating when I say it makes Salo seem like a comedy. Seriously, I'm not being hyperbolic.
@@holeymcsockpuppetye. the cut version of Serbian film was bad, but I know the uncut version was absolutely horrid, and I don’t want to watch the uncut version
Just watch Shawshank redemption afterward: faith restored
I watched this when I was eighteen and it really disturbed me. I didn't get any of the subtle points. I just suffered from the psychic assault and for years felt polluted by it.
Psychotic?
Same. The deeper meanings went right over my head.
I saw it too around High School time. Made me cynical to this day
Maybe thats because its an evil, depraved film that should never have been made
This is my new proudest subscription to a channel under 100k subs. I've seen Salo covered by tons of the popular movie review channels for a long time, but none have bothered to go into any actual depth beyond "haha dey eat da poopoo." You seriously deserve so much more recognition.
Saying "consumerism" a hundred times... "depth".
Salo is by far the best unwatchable movie
I basically have it memorized as a result of making this video. It lives in my head rent free
Now compare it to something equally 'unwatchable', like "Pulp Fiction", that contains no moral or socially relevant thematic intent. Passolini predicted Tarantino....
My favorite movie actually 😅
That and Requiem for a dream
@@apatheticviewer234 Interesting tastes, do you like Irreversible and come and see too?
@@Mr.Goodkat I like Enter The Void. Gaspar Noe is probably my favorite director
I will forever be shocked and horrified. I've only ever seen Salo once. I agree with my fellow reviewer that the book by de Sade is 100 times worse and much more graphic and unbelievable. The old adage absolute power corrupts absolutely couldn't be more appropriate. A must see for film afficianados, but be warned.
I saw Salo on a double bill with Pigpen in the late 1970's in NYC. The audience was more grotesque than the film.
@@haha-kq6rz I can believe it.
The works of De Sade are beyond disgusting as was he. De Sades family kept it hidden for a long time before it seemed it was a fine work of literature and part of French history, those books should have been destroyed, what's even worse is that people like De Sade exsist today
That's probably why my ex was abusive. He loved that book and it warped his already fragmented mind
I've seen this film once but never had the guts to finish it. Even as a cold man, I can't even take this movie.
I have no doubt in my mind that somewhere in the world today, wealthy elites from every country, whether enemy or ally, come together somewhere in secrecy to perform terrible acts on innocent people like in this film, strictly for self pleasure and power.
I remember accidentally coming across this movie one night on TV. I was about 16 years old and it was airing on TVO at about midnight. The subtitles were in French which wasn't an issue since I am fully bilingual (English/French). I got sucked into it and although it was extremely disturbing I couldn't ignore the moralistic and philosophical questions that came to me while watching it. That was 24 years ago and only today did I find out once-and-all what the name of that film was.
It was just casually playing on tv my god lol
@@grayonthewater yeah, granted it was airing at about midnight
That was my experience too. I watched it on Spanish TV many years ago by chance. Truly disturbing.
It was on tv? I find that hard to believe
@@chickenandksivideoreviewer9739 In my case, it was. I found it very hard to stomach to say the least.
Watching this film doesn't just make you feel dirty...IT MAKES YOU FEEL LESS HUMAN!
Made me feel more human, because we’re the only evil species on Earth.
@@coleozaeta6344 Speak for yourself buddy boy... Not everyone is a degenerate.
@@coleozaeta6344some animals like dolphins are perfectly aware of the torture they subject their prey to and revel in it, we are far from the only "evil species"
This movie is very horrifying and a sadistic look into the darker aspect of power and greed, but the marriage scene where the rich doods marry their guards made me laugh cause it came out of nowhere. I haven't scene the actually film but I saw a review and saw the scene in it.
We saw the same review lol 😆
The director said Salo was about "The Pornography of Power". A really good way to put it and changed how I think about certain things in the real world.
I believe that watching a lot of horror movies growing up contributed to the depression I experienced for years of my life. Be careful what you watch. I would never watch a film like this now. I’m amazed I’ve never seen it.
Horror movies always made me happy - I couldn't wait to see the The Wolfman 8 times or The Thing (both iterations) & many others like Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde - Rosemary's Baby The Tenant - man, sorry you're on the other end of it
@@TAROTAI SLAY
What? Skill issue.
@@TAROTAI Those horror movies are simply made to terrify. Movies like these are made to stick with you, fester, linger, and disturb. This is horror because it’s reality, all true horror is based on the barbarity of our fellow man. ‘The Thing’ is nothing like A Serbian Film or 120 Days of Sodom.
I’m convinced there is definitely some link in culture you imbibe and general mood. Humans weren’t designed for the tech we have access to now. In b4 “video games Don’t create school shooters” crowd…..
It’s a moral wounding and continual loss of innocence. I sometimes meet old people and think “this guy has no idea what SawIII is and is better for it”.
I went to see this in the cinema with a friend in the 90s, after it was "unbanned" in my country. We really had no idea about it, just that it was banned and as a 19yo at the time that was enough to get me to see it.
It's 30 years later and I'm still not over it. :/
I just watched Salo for the first time. It's so disgusting, and so beautiful. Cinematography has painterly compositions, sumptuous color palette, handheld camerawork. The mise en scene sells it and it's also beautiful paced. Truly a masterpiece, but I wanna throw up
It has its cinematographic moments, agreed, but all the rest of the film was technically worthless (editing? dubbing? syncing?). It's disgusting like a 'horror-porn' flick such as Eli Roth's Hostel, just trying to be more smart. This movie is so overrated, simply due to the dramatic fate of the director.
@@yannicschelfhout5370 Strong disagree here, from someone who wrote a dissertation on an artist (Carl Orff) under totalitarianism. Yes, there's some clumsiness in the editing and dialogue, but it's a brilliant film in its commentary.
@@andrewkohler3707 Valid remarks. And indeed, I agree with the social commentary and the consequent debate it provokes. However I think that the unnecessary esoteric dialogue is just too much, thus overshadowing its message. But again, good point!
@@yannicschelfhout5370 Thanks for the reply! I assume that "the unnecessary esoteric dialogue" you reference are those highfalutin' conversations the four fascists have in which they quote Nietzsche and (anachronistically, I believe) Klossowski and such. I find those among the less powerful sections of the film (compared the "Mangia!!", the pianist's skit with Signora Vaccari, the presentation of the blue ribbons through the end, etc.), but I think they are justified by the Brechtian framing (the Verfremdungseffekt, or "alienation effect"). It's also a stunning contrast to see these people committing the most heinous crimes and then sitting around musing about it, since it's all an exercise to them-the banality of evil.
@@andrewkohler3707 Sir, never thought I would say this, but your remarks make me contemplate watching Salò again with the philosophical background you've provided. I have watched it with an adequate understanding of the underlying themes, but it's clear you have a more complete understanding than I did. Thanks for this - Pauline Kael would be proud of your analysis! 🙂
Ah yes, the most powerful business men: Hank Hill and Bald Doug Walker
now its just regular doug walker
I'm shocked by how many commenters do not seem to know this film was based on the writing of Donatien Alphonse François aka Marquis de Sade.
@Nicko s Ikr. The film didn't shock you? 😂😂😂
The book is 100x worse
Sade can rot in hell, he was so disgusting. And talking about power, knowing that he was spared so many times due to his position and money, for example for abusing this maid, fits with the movies theme as it seems. I watched a video on him a long time ago, I know some basics about the book. I am not a fan of censor, but with him, I wouldn't have cared if they just burned it.
😂 That's what made me click as I did forget that this controversial film is connected to Marquis de Sade...
Why are you shocked? The level of literacy on CZcams tends to hover around Third Grade.
This is incredible. Watching it the first time, it's all shock. But listening to the dialogue, it's so much more.
Ironically the people who made this film had a blast and apparently it was quite a wholesome and kind working environment to be apart of. Apparently the Director heard a rumor that a actress on set felt that she had been snubbed, the director took her out to dinner and their were frequent soccer ( football for everyone else) games and the director got to make up with his old mentor.
Never watch anything that you know you'll want to forget.
Might be the best review of this film I've seen on here. Perfect!
Thank you!!!
I absolutely second that...the first time i saw the film, my sister gave it to me and it was a vhs tape...it was just disgust... i looked at it a second time on a streaming site, with a different mind, and your review just put the words that were missing for me...great review!
He just shoehorns in his idiotic hatred for "consumerism".
I’ve known about this film since I was a teenager and I’m 33 now. I adore film but I’m incredibly averse to violence like this in cinema. I’m just a squeamish and sensitive person and often can’t see past brutality to accept its function in a film. However, I’m getting better (I mean, one of my favourite films is irreversible), and I can’t tell you how much I appreciate your video on this 💗I’ll definitely watch it now that I feel prepared, as I love the messages and the meaning already. Thank you!
one of the most vile depictions ever put to film; and yet, the absurdist humor comes through. a bravura piece of work.
Try Human Centipede 2. Great fun.
I recall watching this back in the late 80's and feeling quite sick through most of it. To this day i still remember how i felt watching it. Having said that, I had no idea that Passolini had been murdered.
My opinion is that these were his fantasies. I don’t think anyone needs to understand his nor any other pervert or pedophile.
You don’t know Pasolini and you don’t understand this monument to the triumph or death as the consequence of the rot of contemporary power
Reminds me of NYC in the 70's. There was a bar that had a shit & piss pit in the basement.
I think you're referring to the Mineshaft, which I've read a great deal about. Oh boy 😳
@@rubaidaallen2764 Mineshaft was reportedly the source and inspiration of Minecraft Video Games, which have become addictive entertainment for popular consumption.
In analyzing this, we must understand that Fascism was also against "Globalism" and "consumerism" (at least by-appearences for the last)
Fascism was an enforced globalism.
Really great video! I always thought of Saló as the “uh oh stinky” movie, but now I see it in a whole new light
I have to give you a lot of respect for giving a better understanding about this film. So many people get caught up on the sex and poop eating but you actually contextualized it.
"A Serbian Film" (uncut version) makes Saló seem like a comedy. I'm not exaggerating. It has a "message" too. But it is lost beneath what the images do to your mind. Taboo is arousing. It is addictive. And once you crack open that door, it can never be closed until d€ath.
I watched both films back to back recently and I feel like Salo makes A Serbian Film seem tame. A Serbian Film implies it's shocking moments more than it shows them, it doesn't wallow in the depravity, and it's shocks were deliberately over-exaggerated but really there are only a few scenes that are all that bad. Salo is like a dizzyingly almost festive celebration of evil and depravity from start to finish. It's a sick sadistic fantasy.
He'd absolutely be horrified by the way things are now.
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Why?
thank you for honestly explaining the meaning of this movie. i went into it a couple of hours ago completely blind out of curiosity, and the meaning about consumerism can be completely lost if you dont know the proper context behind it. plus, looking it up online, people either act as if the shock factor is the only noteworthy thing or, on the other hand, they just praise it without elaborating further. it is a really meaningful story though, and im glad that there are people out there willing to explain it more without being condescending about it lol
Yeah, buying stuff is exactly like torturing people.
Big brain take.
I still wouldn't recommend this movie to anyone. Despite the message. It is as disturbing as people say. In both the shocking images and psychological aspects, which is what makes it so disturbing.It's not just graphic violent scenes, but a whole restless vibe, even the credits of the movie are on the beginning, so that the even after it ends you stay with all that traumatic stuff in your mind. Definitely not good for one's mental health. But if you will watch it anyways, beware. I think having this movie spoiled might help reduce it a little bit, but it's still pretty tough to watch. Those last 20 minutes felt like hell, they only needed the fire, everything else was there. I wish I was exaggerating, but I'm not.
Won't watch it again, won't recommend it to anyone.
Great job analyzing this incredible piece of art. I commonly see it placed alongside shock pieces that have nothing to say. When I finally got around to watching it, though I was still utterly disgusted; I understood it wasn't just the gross aspects the churned my stomach, it was the the themes and messages. The utter depravity of humanity, dominance and power stayed with me well beyond what the film is commonly known for. I did however not pick up on the consumerism critique, likely due to me being still pretty young when I watched it; it really just makes me love it all the more. It also warms my heart knowing that Martin Scorsese helped get the film released in America, he's a true icon of a bygone era in cinema. If one can stomach it, it would be a crime to art and cinema to not watch this before you depart this mortal coil
This Is the first positive comment I've read so far.I just watched it on you tube. I'm an octogenarian.
I watched this movie uncut on You Tube over 12 years ago. There used to be no commercials or censors. It's a complete mind fuck of a film. Probably, the most disturbing film of all time.
Just a like global world today!!!
A little detail I liked is how most of the paintings that can be seen hanging have a cubist or avant-garde style of sorts, which the fascists consider degenerate art
Thank you, this is probably the best description and breakdown of this film that I have found, I wanted to understand it without having to watch it.
Fun fact about the name “Margarita”. This is the name of Fausts’ lover. Faust sold his soul for pleasure and power and Margarita met a tragic fate due to her falling to sin with Faust.
I highly recommend the film Teorema by Pasolini. It is shocking, but not in the way Salo is. There is something seismic and terrifying underneath a calm, almost humorous surface. The ending will stick with you.
So, he was a self-righteous hypocrite.
so just your typical marxist/commie then
Dam dude this video is beast. I still won't see the movie but at least I understand the importance behind it.
It really isnt bad visually. Yeah the feces scene is rough, but listening to the reasoning behind the feast helps.
Its boring as all hell, makes absolutely no sense, the entire time the only thing that will pass your mind will be "WTF was that supposed to be??"
I feel like Eyes Wide Shut captures the theme of absolute power corrupting sex and how dehumanizing, predatory sex is easily turns into a grotesque death drive far more cerebrally and more subtle than Salò (it is also a much better directed film although the cinematography of Salò is decent), although it is not the only theme Kubrick was concerned with.
Also, Kubrick is a far more meticulous filmmaker than Pasolini, as Salò is full of what I feel are mistakes that aren't deliberate paradoxes like the dream logic of EWS but simply glaring errors. Take Ezio, who is shown to be defying the libertines and clenching his fist in the air, laughing out of character at sadistic acts committed by the fascists for instance.
I still have some respect for the film though, and the concept of anarchy of power is a great, almost Foucualdian concept that Pasolini expounds upon in essays. The sequence that is feel the most intelligent in Salò is during the Circle of Blood are not only that we see the binoculars but when the libertine reverses them to make the atrocities look smaller, chillingly exposing the audience as complicit.
Wow you really thought hard about these movies 😮😅
I remember watching Cradle of Filth's video 'So glad for the madness' around 2002 and being creeped out by it. Shortly after, I learned it was based on this film.
This is a brilliant interpretation of the film and I had no idea about the background of the director. I now have a new appreciation for this film, thank you!
Man gets caught doing the deed with a child. Not surprising he decided to go into film making after that
I didn't know that's how you made shit, I make mine for the Salo watch party another way
has anyone ever seen The Duke and Sargon of Akkad in the same room?
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eyes wide shut kubrick died 6 days after he showed wb the final cut.
I know....I love S. Kubrick. I'm sad he's gone. He was very handsome in his youth.
@@purpledodecahedron7169 yeah he was especially good when he abused Shelley Duvall on set, making her shoot a scene over 100 times and bullying her, telling everybody to not talk to her. She would cry everyday on set until she couldn't anymore. Also how he always called her ugly and regretted casting her. Yeah, an amazing person right.
Also after his death the studio cut some of the movie out. Curious what the full movie would have shown had it not been edited.
@@corinnae.7877 he was awesome. Name a director that’s not secretly a piece of shit. We’re separating the art from the artist here bud.
@@corinnae.7877 I think he "forced" Vincent d'onofrio to shoot a scene on the bathroom (full metal jacket) probably 100% times too,so no,it wasn't personal
What can I say..I watched this movie about 35 years ago for the first time and this is the first time now I find a decent review for it which reveals details I did not know nutil now and appreciates this movie as it is: pure arthouse and ambitious political cinema. Great work from "The Kino Corner". I jsut distributed you channel's name to 3 of my friends you will appreciate your work as I do.
He failed to convey this message. Why? Because he also was one who exploited the youth for pleasure.
He didn't fail
You know when people say 'wake up', well this film portrays the world we are to wake up from. People are taught how to be normal. Normality is doing what you are told. People who wake up are subject to abuse from the normal and the normal people are complacent to the evils of the power hungry. So when i hear about being normal, what i actually hear is do what you are told and you wont come to the attention of authority. People suffer and the normal people facilitate this by helping their masters by judging and condeming people who dare to challenge the status quo. It's sad how little it takes for the masses to sell themselves to the corperation, they may be outraged when bombs are being dropped on inncocent heads by their corperation, but still choose do nothing about it and the cycle of death continues. The world we live in is created by the corperation and blindly supported by the masses. What are you in your nice little house with your nice little car......???
You know, I think there's a lot of times when you know something but just can't quite put your finger on it. Like something nagging in your subconscious but your just not ready to face it? I imagine probably a majority of people are like that. You seem to have put into very clear words.
On the other hand, I've also thought there are some that wake up and just refuse to accept reality in all its ugliness. I think those tend to become suicidal or mass shooters.
**corporation
The world is created by God Himself, and you are either a follower of Christ or a slave to sin.
@LibtardsStillCantSilence Me21 I think many people know, but how do you go against such a machine? What can we do? Look at the cost of living crisis, the normal people expected to pay back the debt of the world, while the rich and powerful accumulate even more wealth. We were taught as kids that the world will only become a better place in the future only to find it’s all been an orchestrated lie.
Society is predicated on the majority collectively accepting norms. A functioning society provides a measure of security and stability, from which the majority can expect to have most of their needs met: food, shelter, safety, medicine. On the margins of society, the marginalised will miss out on some or all of these benefits. At the apex of society, the 1% will receive a far greater share of these benefits than anyone else. To be in a position reject society and the collective norms is to either be privileged: a member of the 1%, or just not marginalised - because to rebel one must not be hungry, cold, insecure, homeless, or sick. People who do not have their basic needs met are consumed with trying to attain them, or suffering through their absence. It is hard to think and act clearly if you are starving. It is impossible to devote time to kicking the traces of “normal” life if your kid has a brain tumour and you are desperate for the hospital care that a stable society can provide. Those in power - the 1% and their enablers - are aware of this. And they use it to their advantage. I don’t have any answers. I just ask that you think before you contemptuously dismiss the “normies” for their lack of rebellion. Maybe their baby needs NICU care. Maybe their house foreclosed and they have nowhere to live. Maybe they are in an abusive relationship, or have a drug addiction. Not everyone has a life that allows them to not be “normal”.
@@sopyleecrypt6899 nicey put. Yes the system provides the infastructure people need to survive, it also makes a huge profit from said infastructure and can denign you from use of it too. The system we have been born into relys on around 20% of people at the bottom rung, people deliberatly kept in poverty, on a sort of virtual ladder in order for it to work. For example the most deprived areas supply a lot of soldiers while the more affluent areas provide more opertunity's. It is very deliberate what is going on, very deliberate. The normal is acceptance without question, following the crowd. Look at the way the majority have accepted the current situstion we are in at the moment. There are loads of people going through personal hardships which can send people over the edge but still wont question the higher authority , the fat controllers, while there are people who genuinely want a different way not driven by selfish greed and suspicion but are not afforded the opertunity by the powers that be because it interferes with business. We are being treated like a heard of sheep and used to provide the 1% their capital, for their own personal gain. In short we are on the planet for a short while and are being deliberately lied too to maintain the status quo. The normal believes the lie and follows, anyone who dares challenge is ridiculed and in some cases slandered and or imprisoned. So normal is believing this is normal and basically follows without question. Doesn't it annoy you that these people can enjoy the planet we live on 24/7 while you get to work hard to have a taste for two weeks a year. Your life span is being used so they can have fun ?
My mom and I watched this together.
We haven't spoken since.
The Marquis De Sade wrote this book I could not finish reading it, it is absolutely "f--king" mind blowing
People don't understand Pasolini was trying to expose what evil people with money and power were doing around the world. He got murdered for it.
You guys just have extremely weird takes on this. Dude was a convicted homosexual pdf file... Like the exact type of person depicted in this fetish movie! Stop admiring this sicko, the movie wasn't even good.
@@REALdavidmiscarriage He wasn't killing and mutilating people though. He slept with a couple underage teens.
Ah ok then it's all good I guess... lol...@@thaistomp
@@REALdavidmiscarriage I didn't say that it was all good, but there's no comparison to what's depicted in this film.
@@thaistomp Huh? What do you mean? I couldn’t disagree more. The main theme in this movie is men taking advantage of other young men. Like the exact thing the director did. for example, there are moments where some of the boys seemed to enjoy the abuse, like one of them has taken a liking to one of the leaders and you can see him blissfully smiling, like he is in love or something. That is 100% how these people fantasize about this topic. Sickening! Besides up until the last scene there wasn‘t a lot of physical torture going on. Also we don‘t even know the full extent of his sexual deviance, or what he might have done behind closed doors. Maybe he was fantasizing about abuse as well. If you knew anything about pdf filia, you would know that it very often goes hand in hand with physical abuse. Just because there are certain scenes that aren‘t directly case related doesn‘t mean, that many (like a majority) of the scenes of the movie aren‘t clearly fetishized.
Marquis De Sade was a true revolutionary that proved how mightier the pen is than the sword. He was imprisoned for criticizing the monarchy, and then when he was in prison he started a riot by speaking out and exposing the guards for murdering inmates. While in solitary confinement he wrote _The 120 Days of Sodom_ , a text so scathing and incriminating of the aristocracy that they not only killed him for it but they condemned his very name to never be spoken with a reverent connotation ever again. They accused that his works were a confession of his own obscene fantasies when in reality they were a hit job on the debauchery of the bourgeoisie. By telling them all that he knew what sorts of bestial decadence they were satisfying themselves to, he proved that truth alone is the most penetrating blade.
Thank you for such an informative post.
@@hanajinks1044 I’m glad you appreciated it! Do you have any thoughts?
I have been quite occupied by a certain puzzling idea recently regarding social reactions to fascism. Why do you think it is that we are so comfortable exploring and elucidating the scope and cruelty of fascist perpetrated violence, yet we rarely speak about the sexual violence carried out under fascist regimes? Why are we so obsessed with one while seemingly in denial of the other? It’s certain that the level of sexual violence was prolific under, say, Nazi Germany. Yet it’s barely spoken of. But the endless list of Netflix Hitler documentaries, the cavalcade of academic inquiry into the psychology of the Third Reich that’s processed across the past decades, even elementary school children can paint a PG picture of what the Holocaust entailed. Yet when it comes to, say, mass rape upon Polish women, we get so prude all of the sudden.
Do you have any insight or thoughts?
@@FrostRare
Reading back again over the things I'd learnt about Sade a decade ago and now seeing it in a different light; l guess is further proof that very little is as it seems. From a 1968 Congressional hearing where the number was accepted as 600, 000 and yet is 6 million now, to a guy named Tony Heller, whose channel exposes the altering of climate data. Was Hitler really a Rothschild by blood, given his mother was a maid for N Rothschild and they were believed to have had a tryst? Why are the German camps demonized in comparison to the gulags, which garner relatively little attention and opprobrium? I lived in Japan for a while and quickly noticed that they don't share the same, perhaps "Catholic guilt", as we do to matters of a sexual nature, which is really the only explanation l can offer to your question. Maybe the violence perpetrated was bad enough to illustrate the horrors without having to go into gory detail about the sex stuff? A completely unsatisfactory answer, l know.
As a Christian Conservative, l don't really see much difference between naziism, fascism and communism, given that it's all far-left socialism. CIA was responsible for Iran, JFK, Vietnam, Cambodia, Kuwait, 9-11, Iraq, Ukraine and lots more in between. Rockefeller edumacation, eugenics, NWO, illuminati, child-trafficking, Fake News - we've been sold a complete lie about everything.
Again: He was only projecting.
@@philippmethling6216 your proof?
They predicted Epstein Island didn't they?
Yes, they did. hell, that may be where he got the idea. Only God knows
I mean, roman emperor Tiberius did that some 2000 yrs ago in Capri Island. Can't say I recommend looking up the actual details however, it's absolutely disgusting.
The most barbaric thing here is how you wear that collar
One aspect of this film that hadn’t really sunk in for me when I watched it (until this video) was that Salo also reflects the circle of psychopathy and sociopathy. It perfectly describes how the psychopathic elite are compelled to break down the psyches of others, gradually destroying their sense of empathy, until they have created mirror images of themselves. In this way, psychopathy is like a virus… this is how it propagates and survives.
Now look at the Paris opening ceremonies and tell me this guy didn’t predict the future.
I thought the victims lack of empathy towards each other at the end is very insightful. Now in days people will film despicable things just to fit a mold and get a few likes.
Brilliant presentation. Sad part is this is the world today and very few realise its happening.
Brilliant insights, and ooh, your cheeky coda at the end--! I saw SALÒ in a theatre, the old Silver Screen in Atlanta. I was an art-movie fiend and frequented the theatre to see such fare as RASHOMON, WR: MYSTERIES OF THE ORGANISM, and EL TOPO...but when I slid into that velveteen seat I had no idea I was strapping myself in for a personal endurance test. I'd simply heard SALÒ was an incisive study of decadence and power by an Italian director. Ye ghods, what a brain-reaming trip it was to experience it from the center of the third row on a towering screen! Thanks for your discerning teatment of a very uneasy subject to face.
I saw this film about 40 years ago as a midnight film. I was attracted to it as it was an edgy film. I had a young coworker mention it to me after all these years and I bought Blue Ray of it and watched it again. I'm glad I did. Despite how disturbing the film is, it was well made, especially the cinematography.
10:58 🤣🤣🤣 i love that you used such an obscure reference that would only be known by a specific type of person that lives on youtube
If you want more disturbing stuff, read the DeSade story "120 Days of Sodom", that the movie is based on, the stuff in the book is far more disturbing, especially if you have the book edition that includes DeSade's notes for the ending that he hid in his cell.
The Hell scene is literally beyond the capacity of comprehension for anyone who has not read it. Nietzsche once said wisdom itself places limits on knowledge- there are some things I do not wish to know
Fuck, man, you’ve just explained Pasolini into my life!
I hadn’t seen the movie before stumbling into this video of yours, but ended up watching it after 2 minutes into your explanation. Finished the movie first then returned to your essay.
Hats off to you, mate, you should charge for this kind of content! 👍🏻👌🏻
You should go back to the beginning and look at Pasolini's other films.
@@jcudal32 he took the effort to spread the word.
@@jcudal32 also, how do you know that it wasn’t him who wrote the Wikipedia article?
I remember as a kid (like 2003?) i searched through the collection of burned DVD's of my older sister.
I remember reading "120 days of sodom" on one DVD and thought it would be some documentary of sodom and gomorrha or something (i was like 12).
Man was i wrong...
The shit eating scenes and the mashed potatoes with needles in it haunt me to this day. 😅
Criticizing modern society by making such a film is a bit contradictory, if not pure hypocrisy...
"I can only imagine the duke as Sargon of Akkad."
This made me burst out laughing.
The film could have been a reality show with the royal family, Clintons, Weinstein, Gates, Epstein, Brandon, etc etc. Nicole K and Tom would be on board too.
My boyfriend wants to watch this and I would appreciate it if someone told him what site he could see it on? I really need someone to do this for him and will it keep him occupied long enough so I can pack a bag and sneak out of the house before he notices that I'm gone. Please
effedupfilms
@@jaymoore3479 website?
Kimberly Lyons: It's available from NetFlix, but only on DVD. If you've got a DVD player, you're in luck: set it up, tell him it's streaming for free for two hours only, and sneak out while he's mesmerized. If you don't have a DVD player, you must continue to live in Hell. That's capitalism for you! Good luck....
The Criterion Channek, Its part of their dvd collection as well.
Saw this movie in the early 90s and i knew then it is the most accurate depiction of what the global elite are really like behind closed doors
Yup, but why are these types of people always so lame? Dorks with a lot of money. Lol.
So we get sadism from Sade, and Masochism from Masoch, that’s fascinating
Well, thanks for this - as I've read 5/6th's of de Sade's 120 Days of Sodom, before abandoning it as I felt it was simply beyond my threshold for tastelessness and over indulgence. Possibly as a lover of classic cinema this film by Pasolini may engross me sufficiently enough to watch it until its' fruition. Thanks Kino Corner 🤓
I'm just impressed you were able to cut so many scenes without nudity from the movie lol
one of the scenes that stood out to me as artisticly powerful was when the pianist killed herself. like she had provided the musical backdrop, the ambience, to so much of the horrors that she couldnt stomach it anymore.
another was when that dude with the whip at the end just berated them like he was their God with divine right of punishment. man.... sickening but reflective of how conceited consumerism makes us when we're at one end of the spectrum.
also, kind of fitting that he died after the movie for that time. these days a film like this is one in a thousand every few years but back then the directors death was sort of a fitting climax. wouldn't even be shocked if the director faked his death for artistic purposes. lol ........oh and Sargon as Duke 🤣🤣🤣
I think the problem with "Salo" is the same problem as with "Cuties": you can't point out that something exists and criticize it while actively participating in it. Not even mentioning that when it comes to such movies, it's pretty often just a projection. The author projects his own problems and thoughts onto the rest of society. Even though reality doesn't look like that in the slightest. It's like with the modern "art" scene, where people do random, stupid, and pointless shit and call it art," and then they have the audacity to criticize the blandness of modern art.
Oh, I would forget about one of the biggest issues of "art" like "Salo" (or more like their creators): Their ego. They think, feel and act like they are better than everyone else. When in reality they are usually much worse than averge person. I hate those pretentious people (even in the comments there are plenty of them) who think that without realizing that they are a big part of the supposed problem they love to criticize so much...
He is depraved but this is no cuties. What happened on screen was completely fake and the actors were of age. What happened in cuties was done to actual children. They didn't eat actual shit in salò. They did show a child's chest and made them twerk to distract a guard in cuties.
Congratulations, you’ve made the definitive CZcams video on Salò! Great job.
Because of his own actions, the entire nature of the product is called into question. The tone and purpose of the film switches from critique to indulgence.
I NEVER ever thought I would watch this movie in its entirety. The first time I tried to I was eating a really nice prepared ribeye steak broccoli and mashed potatoes. 20 minutes later I threw up what I had eaten and stopped the movie. I tried again watching it and I made it through the film. I really to this day find this to be the most disturbing movie I've ever seen. Its a movie I am torn to recommend, because its that dangerous. It can change your life. Some of the movie you wish you could unsee. Do I regret watching it? No. I think the message behind it all is important and needs to be known than this kind of thing exists in our lifetime. Right now somewhere in the world at this very moment this is happening. Good luck to those who choose to go forward.
I feel like this movie is exploitative of it's themes and just an excuse to indulge in the same filth this guy was criticising, humanity exists in sin but we shouldn't loose ourselves to it nor should we eradicate it
Masterpiece is not the right word for this... This guy is a known PDF file, and you act like he is this prophetic genius director, when this movie clearly was nothing but a fetish movie for him. Terrible movie, with no redeeming qualities, the characters have 0 depth there is no plot, no catharsis, NOTHING! Just one shocking scene after the other, with pseudo intellectual gibberish sprinkled in every now and then, to try to make the movie come across as meaningful and profound. and then it's just over. Terrible movie and even worse take.
He was prophetic. Interviews clearly show that. Characters having no depth is part of the movie. "There is no plot". What? Have you seen the movie or you just don't know what "plot" means?
@@relahtnelnarF I don't care about what the guys says in interviews, there is nothing inherently prophetic or profound about this movie. It's sick and revoltin and I'm normally not the kind of guy that has any strong feelings about any form of literature or art no matter how controversial. This is by far the most pointlessly disturbing movie I've seen. It's just there to shock. It's a house full of kids getting SA tortured and killed in the end and then the movie ends. are we really gonna ignore the fact the guy was a pdf file, like it is of no relevance to the obvious fetishization depicted in this movie? The bad guys in this movie are HIM, this movie was about HIS life! How messed up is that? Defending this is as close to PDF filia apologism as you can get, without openly admitting to it.
@@REALdavidmiscarriage you said "you act like he is a prophetic genius" and i just said he was prophetic and he was with this movie too. You just don't like the guy and saw this movie just as "violence" when it clearly isn't. You decided before even watching the movie that you wouldn't have tried to see anything in the movie. It clearly isn't just there to shock.
Yes, that thing has nothing to do with this movie, cause he didn't do this kind of stuff amd the movie isn't this shallow, whether youblike it or not
@@REALdavidmiscarriage oh, you are one of those people that has the need to accuse anyone of pefophilia.
Repulsion is a great movie made by Polanski, which is clearly against violence towards women. Someone saying the movie isn't a fetish makes him a pedophile or a women beater because Polanski isn't a good person? No.
Defending a movie that is good, artistic and has a message that follows my ideology isn't defending pedophilia, because the movie isn't a study on pedophilia
@@relahtnelnarF What do you mean he didn't do this stuff? He got caught having sex with a minor PUBLICALLY. Just listen to the way the 3 bad guys talk about how boys behinds are superior to those of girls. That is clearly HIM talking through his characters. "he was prophetic with this movie" Oh please you can read profundity into everything if you try hard enough. Oh so you are the type of person that likes to pigeonhole people just because they don't agree with you. You see what I just did? I reflected your ad hominem right back at you. And I am all about separating the art from the artist but if it's murderer or Child abuser it gets really hard, especially if he makes the movie about child abuse. Why is the clear as day moral ambiguity of the situation so hard to grasp for you? Also I watched this movie knowing nothing of it or the director only that it was supposed to be disturbing (I normally like movies that make me feel something) So I was actually hoping I'd enjoy it. I don't have the kind of free time on my hands to watch movies just to trash them, neither would I do that if I had.
Looks like Guantanamo Bay times the Freemasons
Sounds a lot like the WEF and the WHO of today ?
De Sade's novel was much more shocking - especially the gruesome murder of the young Augustine.