Salo: not all that
 

I finally got around to watching this today and must confess that I didn't find it as disturbing as I thought I would: am I "conditioned"?

All of the rape and buggery is off-camera, the shit-eating just that and the torture scenes viewed through binoculars.

I really didn't rate this film at all: am I missing something? Or am I just so hardened?

It's based on a De Sade novel. Martyr for free speech? Yes. Literary genius? Hardly. An updating of a De Sade novel keeping with the original intent of a De Sade novel is not going to create a masterpiece. The biggest gorehound I know rented this hoping for a taboo thrill, and couldn't even get to the end of it. Taboos are pointless if they're not done in a stimulating fashion.

Ive never seen this. But Ive really wanted to see a film that I actually cant stomach. Ive seen what I think ar some of the goriest like

Guinea Pig Series
Cannibal Holocaust
Jungle Holocaust
Traces Of Death
Faces Of Death

those sorta films. none gross me out. So im hoping to pick this film up sometime and see what its all about.

Is it a decent film though? Or is it just a gore show?

the only entertaining thing I've seen even related to De Sade was the movie Quills.

jess francos flicks were good for a laugh :p

I've heard of it and read many many reviews.
First I thought it really is a very disturbing piece of film but now I'm really not sure.
I guess people react differently to it.
As for me, I might watch it but I'm not easily touched when scenes are not 'convincing'.

But then again I might not, art?? Naah..

I don't think there IS a film I can't stomache, at least not because of gore. I haven't really been shocked by a movie but I haven't really looked for one to shock me. Faces of Death was boring and so many were fake, anyway watching people really die wasn't fun. I could stand it just fine it was just boring. Guinea Pig was cool but the movie didn't have much substance either. I love gore don't get me wrong but I want the gore to be in either A: a good movie, B: a funny movie, or C: a B movie. I saw Quills a while back, kind of liked it. I think the last movie I couldn't stomache was Exit to Eden or maybe something from Michael Moore.

somebody put a bullet in my head if i ever say anything like this.

I'd love to, now THAT would be fun to watch.

uh oh

never seen the film, just hear say. don't know if this true but the person who made the film I guess got killed, because the people thought it was real what happen to those kids. again hear say :D

From IMDB :


Pier Paolo Pasolini achieved fame and notoriety long before he entered the film industry - a published poet at 19, he had already written numerous novels and essays before his first screenplay in 1954. His first film Accattone (1961) was based on his own novel, and its violent depiction of the life of a pimp in the slums of Rome caused a sensation. He was arrested in 1962 when his contribution to the portmanteau film Ro.Go.Pa.G. (1963) was considered blasphemous, and given a suspended sentence. It might have been expected that his next film, Vangelo secondo Matteo, Il (1964) (The Gospel According to St.Matthew), which presented the Biblical story in a totally realistic, stripped-down style, would cause a similar fuss, but in fact it was rapturously acclaimed as one of the few honest portrayals of Christ on screen (its original Italian title pointedly omitted the Saint in St. Matthew). Pasolini's film career would then alternate distinctly personal (and often scandalously erotic adaptations of classic literary texts) Edipo re (1967/I) (Oedipus Rex), Decameron, Il (1971), Racconti di Canterbury, I (1972) (The Canterbury Tales), Fiore delle mille e una notte, Il (1974) (Arabian Nights) with his own more personal projects, expressing his controversial views on Marxism, atheism, fascism and homosexuality, notably Teorema (1968) (Theorem), Pigsty and the notorious Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma (1976) (Salo, or The 120 Days of Sodom), a relentlessly grim fusion of Mussolini's Fascist Italy with the Marquis de Sade which was banned in Italy (and many other countries) for several years. Pasolini was murdered in still-mysterious circumstances shortly after completing the film.

Wow Urge, I thought they knew how he died. I had heard he was stomped to death by outraged people. You learn something every day.

Any good? I was reading an article in an issue of Ultra Voilent magazine and they sounded interesting. Cracks me up Charlie Sheen called the FBI on the makers because he thought they were real :D