Napanood ko ang movie na ito ka gabi at disturbing siya kaya di na ako nagtaka na na banned na ito sa ilang bansa sa buong mundo. Di sinasadyang nakita ko lamang ang movie na ito sa movie stand at na curious lang ako. Pero i suggest to watch this film and i know that is the era this movie was set i know that the things happend in the movie realy occur in some part of the world and open our eyes in this matter.
Ayun nag hanap ako sa net ng mga info about this film at ito ang mga nakuha ko.
Wikipedia.com
Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma (Salò or the 120 Days of Sodom) is a controversial 1975 film written and directed by Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini with uncredited writing contributions by Pupi Avati. It is based on the book The 120 Days of Sodom by the Marquis de Sade. Because of its scenes of intensely sadistic graphic violence, the movie was extremely controversial upon its release, and remains banned in several countries to this day. It was Pasolini's last film; he was murdered shortly before Salò was released.
Plot
Salò (the film's common abbreviation) occurs in the Republic of Salò, the Fascist rump state established in the Nazi-occupied portion of Italy in 1944. The story is in four segments loosely parallel to Dante's Inferno: the Anteinferno, the Circle of Manias, the Circle of Feces, and the Circle of Blood.
Four men of power, the Duke (Duc de Blangis), the Bishop, the Magistrate (Curval), and the President agree to marry each other's daughters as the first step in a debauched ritual. With the aid of several collaborator young men, they kidnap eighteen young men and women (nine of each sex), and take them to a palace near Marzabotto. Accompanying them are four middle-aged prostitutes, also collaborators, whose function in the debauchery will be to recount erotically arousing stories for the men of power, and who, in turn, will sadistically exploit their victims.
The story depicts the many days at the palace, during which the four men of power devise increasingly abhorrent tortures and humiliations for their own pleasure. A most infamous scene shows a young woman forced to eat the feces of the Duke; later, the other victims are presented a giant meal of human feces. At story's end, the victims who chose to not collaborate with their fascist tormentors are gruesomely murdered: scalping, branding, tongue and eyes cut out; (see Franco Merli). The viewer is distanced from the vilest tortures, because they are viewed through binoculars. The film's final shot, perhaps the most haunting of all, portrays the complacency, myopia, and desensitization of the masses: two young soldiers, who had witnessed and collaborated in all of the prior atrocities, dance a simple waltz together.
Controversy
To date, Salò remains controversial, with many praising the film's fearlessness and willingness to contemplate the unthinkable, while others roundly condemn it for being little more than a pretentious exploitation movie. Most historians also state that the gruesome scenes of torture and rape likely never happened in Italy during WWII and that such crimes as seen in the film were never committed by Mussolini's Decima MAS and Brigate Nere-soldiers whom we see in the movie. What actually is historically correct in the movie is the uniforms and clothing of that time, the arms and the millieus. Salò has been banned in several countries, because of its graphic portrayals of rape, torture and murder — mainly of people thought to be younger than eighteen years of age. The setting and the emphasis upon perverse consumption connects the brutality of Fascism to what Pasolini saw as the brutalizing effects of the modification of sexuality under late capitalism.
Salò was banned in Australia in 1976, then made briefly legal in 1993 until its re-banning in 1998. In 1994, an undercover policeman, in Cincinnati, Ohio, rented the film from a local gay bookstore, and then arrested the owners for "pandering". A large group of artists, including Martin Scorsese and Alec Baldwin, and scholars signed a legal brief arguing the film's artistic merit; the case was dismissed on a technicality. For a time, Salò was unavailable in many countries; it is now available, uncut, on DVD in Belgium, Canada, the United States, United Kingdom, France, Finland, Greece, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, Spain, Denmark, Sweden, Italy, Austria, and Germany. Notably, in Sweden the film was never banned or cut. Salò was resubmitted for classification in Australia in 2008, only to be rejected once again.
[7] The DVD print was apparently a modified version, causing outrage in the media over censorship and freedom of speech.
