http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/salo-or-the-120-days-of-sodom-by-pier-paolo-pasolini/ thinking film Thu, 16 Oct 2008 06:33:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/salo-or-the-120-days-of-sodom-by-pier-paolo-pasolini/#comment-385680 Baraa Oxygen Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:45:08 +0000 http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=2559#comment-385680 Salo' is the only film (in whole the history of pictures) which talked seriously about the deep relation between power and perversion. I'd like to invite the critic above to follow hollywood, since only that would meet his cinematographic and cultural level. Salo’ is the only film (in whole the history of pictures) which talked seriously about the deep relation between power and perversion. I’d like to invite the critic above to follow hollywood, since only that would meet his cinematographic and cultural level.

]]> http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/salo-or-the-120-days-of-sodom-by-pier-paolo-pasolini/#comment-382946 lenny Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:43:25 +0000 http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=2559#comment-382946 yeah, the message is that eating poop and killing people is only scary if your a good director. yeah, the message is that eating poop and killing people is only scary if your a good director.

]]> http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/salo-or-the-120-days-of-sodom-by-pier-paolo-pasolini/#comment-382152 Dave M Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:55:53 +0000 http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=2559#comment-382152 What IS the message of the film? What IS the message of the film?

]]> http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/salo-or-the-120-days-of-sodom-by-pier-paolo-pasolini/#comment-342533 think Thu, 29 May 2008 22:07:36 +0000 http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=2559#comment-342533 Personally, i MUST add my thoughts. I agree with both of you, that there are two sides of each coin. But i think that the "message" should have been shown less intensely, rather make you think about this horror than make you disgusted or something. This stuff really recalled that strange bad feeling what i have when i think of ww2 and all of its terror. I really think that if it was supposed to be an art movie, it should have been more impressive, with tiny shings that make you shiver inside instead of making you need to throw up. I guess that was a way to express the horrific spin in the head of all this stuff and give it intensity, but this way, i'm completely on the side of Schneider, it is boring and doesn't make you want to think about deeper meanings, which, i think, this film has, but makes you so horrified that you don't even want to think about it. Personally, i MUST add my thoughts. I agree with both of you, that there are two sides of each coin. But i think that the “message” should have been shown less intensely, rather make you think about this horror than make you disgusted or something. This stuff really recalled that strange bad feeling what i have when i think of ww2 and all of its terror.
I really think that if it was supposed to be an art movie, it should have been more impressive, with tiny shings that make you shiver inside instead of making you need to throw up. I guess that was a way to express the horrific spin in the head of all this stuff and give it intensity, but this way, i’m completely on the side of Schneider, it is boring and doesn’t make you want to think about deeper meanings, which, i think, this film has, but makes you so horrified that you don’t even want to think about it.

]]> http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/salo-or-the-120-days-of-sodom-by-pier-paolo-pasolini/#comment-337266 nick frost Sat, 17 May 2008 04:20:11 +0000 http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=2559#comment-337266 I read your patrinising review after seeing Salo for the first time this evening. I was so struck by its relevancy today. The message of the film is timeless - just as the final scene of the film warns us how the film's horrors will be passed down the generations. I suspect you are so caught up in your won clecer demolition of the film that you blinded yourself to the film's message. Sure you can hone in on the film's inadequacies in filming and lighting and some of the acting - although I thought there were several superb performances - but you should not ignore the powerful and universal messages. The film is still terrible and disturbing in the twenty first century. I am sure its message contributed to the director's death. Of course I did not enjoy the film this evening but I was totally caught up in its message. Perhaps you might look again without the claever tinted glasses. I read your patrinising review after seeing Salo for the first time this evening. I was so struck by its relevancy today. The message of the film is timeless - just as the final scene of the film warns us how the film’s horrors will be passed down the generations. I suspect you are so caught up in your won clecer demolition of the film that you blinded yourself to the film’s message. Sure you can hone in on the film’s inadequacies in filming and lighting and some of the acting - although I thought there were several superb performances - but you should not ignore the powerful and universal messages. The film is still terrible and disturbing in the twenty first century. I am sure its message contributed to the director’s death. Of course I did not enjoy the film this evening but I was totally caught up in its message. Perhaps you might look again without the claever tinted glasses.

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