"As an act of cinema, Salò goes to the extreme of propriety. It lacks taste (or: it tastes of shit) and it harbors no illusions. Its portrait of fascism-cum-sadism is merciless and unforgiving, and charged with both anger and complicity. Just as Sade wrote his infamous novel in a manic state of frustration-induced fantasy whilst imprisoned, Pasolini made his film in reaction to what he saw as capitalism?s ever-increasing power (die-hard communist that he was). But Pasolini also threw his homosexuality into this brew of elements, and his love of innocence (eternally emblematised of course by Ninetto Davoli), creating, let?s say, a very complex film... more
i once flew a kite into a tornado... as i watched it (the kite) dissapear into the funnel of death, i kept hearing a faint melodic beat... as i lost sight of the kite, the music finally became recognizable.....
"you spin me round round round round, like a record baby, round round round round"
i once flew a kite into a tornado... as i watched it (the kite) dissapear into the funnel of death, i kept hearing a faint melodic beat... as i lost sight of the kite, the music finally became recognizable.....
"you spin me round round round round, like a record baby, round round round round"
But all who meet you can tell you have seen it. We must wonder, then, whether you are uncomfortable to be in the company of those who don't care that you've seen it (because they don't find it remarkable or "bad"), or if it's something in you that just wants to erase it from inside your own head.
i once flew a kite into a tornado... as i watched it (the kite) dissapear into the funnel of death, i kept hearing a faint melodic beat... as i lost sight of the kite, the music finally became recognizable.....
"you spin me round round round round, like a record baby, round round round round"
But all who meet you can tell you have seen it. We must wonder, then, whether you are uncomfortable to be in the company of those who don't care that you've seen it (because they don't find it remarkable or "bad"), or if it's something in you that just wants to erase it from inside your own head.
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