Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom

1976

1h 56m

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6.4/10

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Four corrupted fascist libertines round up 9 teenage boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of sadistic physical, mental and sexual torture.

Directors

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Writers

Sergio Citti(writer by)

Pupi Avati(writer by)

Pier Paolo Pasolini(writer by)

Stars

Paolo Bonacelli

Giorgio Cataldi

Uberto Paolo Quintavalle

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Paolo Bonacelli

The Duke

Giorgio Cataldi

The Bishop

Uberto Paolo Quintavalle

The Magistrate

The President

Signora Castelli

Signora Maggi

Signora Vaccari

The Pianist

Sergio - Male Victim

Carlo Porro - Male Victim

Tonino - Male Victim

Male Victim

Male Victim

Male Victim

Lamberto Gobbi - Male Victim

Gaspare Di Jenno

Rino - Male Victim

Giuliana Melis

Female Victim

Faridah Malik

Fatimah - Female Victim

Directors

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Writers

Sergio Citti(writer by)

Pupi Avati(writer by)

Pier Paolo Pasolini(writer by)

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Well you have to hand it to Pier Paolo Pasolini - he had one hell of an imagination. Here he devises a story of a group of nine young men and women who are apprehended by four powerful Fascist officials and held captive for use in some of the most degrading and painful games of sex, humiliation and abuse. I was warned not to eat chocolate before I saw this, and towards the end of this bizarre depiction of cruelty, depravity and exploitation it became quite clear why - and I'd reiterate that here. There is something profoundly desperate about the film. It has nothing even vaguely redeeming about it. Is it allegorical? Perhaps Pasolini is swiping at what he perceived to be the beginning of the disposable culture? Perhaps the illustration of mankind at it's more obscene offers us his perspective on just what humanity had become by the mid 1970s? In any case, this is frankly rather a disgusting film to watch and though I did feel the ending had a great deal of suitable retribution to it, I still struggled to quite get my head around this epitome of man's inhumanity to their own kind. I doubt I shall ever watch it again, but it packed out the cinema in which I watched it and there was plenty of provocative conversation in the bar about it afterwards...

Geronimo196729 Aug, 2022