Ppl who say salo horrifying & disturbing are 100% correct Martyrs, salo (120 days of sodom), the angels' melancholia (or other marian dora movies), high tension, irreversible, the loved ones, and so on. But they need the historical and cultural context
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Italian film can’t be paraphrased or reduced to our modern day perspectives.
While salo had a truly cinematic and artistic approach to the way they told the story and the horrors they were willing to show
The graphic nature of the film comes from the massive balls pasolini had in not being afraid to make the most powerful and everlasting film on the fascism he thought was destroying humanity through an inherent evil. Alright lets just get this out of the way because i'm sick of thinking about it Is salo actually worth watching Donde puedo ver salo o 120 días en sodoma recomienden una página para verla?
Salo is his depiction of that corruption and disregard for life or dignity with no real punishment for those that committed the crimes It’s not something you should watch lightly I’m not kidding when i say it’s rough But it’s genuinely incredible art
And the criterion drop comes with some incredible supplemental material
While watching salo or the 120 days of sodom there is a joke told that is translated a little bit differently depending on your subtitles ‘what is the difference between the number 8, a gate and a family An 8 is always closed, a gate is sometimes open “and the family?’ asks the other person.
I am from ukraine and i eat it every day I usually just slice it thin on the pan and fry it Then take it out and use the rendered fat for as cooking oil for the steak Sometimes after i am done cooking steak, i fry a few eggs in the same fat
At the end i pure the remaining fat on my stake so nothing is lost!
Salo is a legitimately great movie from an excellent director If you can stomach that, the rest of the movie is worth watching imo Serbian film is definitely skippable though. I'm looking for disturbing and challenging movies like
