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Originally Posted by siorai

The thing with Salo is that most people haven't seen it. So, much like The Human Centipede (which most people haven't seen either) people are coming up with these vastly overblown ideas of what is contained in the film based on a minimal amount of knowledge and hearsay. It's based off of the Marquis De Sade's work, there was a ton of controversy about, the director was even killed possibly just for making it, so Salo has to be an absolute atrocity right? Not at all. Far from it actually. It's no closer to being snuff than any other movie where people are tortured and killed. I think the main difference is that if a person is attentive enough, they can see that Salo is not just another torture flick. While some other similar movie can be watched and forgotten right away since it has no substance past the gore and violence, Salo leaves a lasting impression. It can hit you on a different level when you really think about the big picture of what is happening in the film. Which when talked about later can make people who haven't seen it mistake that intellectual impression for an impression made solely by violence which would be typically the case for other movies of this type.

Like Ferox13 said, there is no "inevitable jump." That's the kind of logic that says all people who watch horror movies or play violent video games turn into violent, sadistic people who will probably end up killing people. Is it a possible jump? Sure. If the person was already headed in that direction. But making horror movies isn't going to make someone go from using foam latex and chopping up real people. Real life just doesn't work that way.

Right you are putting words in my mouth. I admit my attempt to spark debate was cumbersome and patchy but I did not in no way use "kind of logic" to say that people who watch horror...."probably end up killing people" how dare you say that? If all you can do is try and shit stir against someone to make yourself look good how can you expect anyone to take what you say about "Salo" seriously?