Pier Paolo Pasolini’s ‘Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom’ is full of shocking and disturbing scenes, but it's also an important statement against facism.
Pier Paolo Pasolini’s fascist parable retools the Marquis de Sade’s extreme avant-garde text and relocates the horror to Nazi-occupied Italy in 1944. Few films have generated the kind of controversy Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom has over the years. The premise involves The Libertines, a cabal of despots who round up a group of teenagers, forcing them to participate in stomach-churning acts of degradation and depravity.
Avant-garde extremism prevails, and Marquis De Sade is quoted verbatim. There are no boundaries to The Libertines' flamboyant evil. The victims are a faceless herd and the horror directed at them is an analogy of how we are collectively depersonalized by war, stripped of identity, safety and autonomy by conglomerates, commerce, pornography and other Hegemonic structures facilitating fascist thinking. The victims are resigned to their appalling fate and do little to end their suffering.
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