Disturbing story with some taboo stuff, weird things that don't make sense and at the end there is some gore too.
But overall the movie is super slow and very boring!
After an hour we decided to put it on 2x speed, That's how boring it was...
A lot of things weren't explained and I wish there was more information on why they did certain things.
I watched this Movie because of the Director and Author Pier Paolo Pasolini... it was his last movie.
I expected a movie about fashism in society.
But this movie is the most perverse thing I've ever seen!
I was hoping for an explanatory statement at the end of the film. But, for me, there was none.
Once and never again!!!
I think this movie is great!
I was reading some comments and I think they all fit perfectly with the author’s aim: he wants you to puke, he wants you to be completely disgusted by that society and he definitely wants you to say:”Once and Never Again” fascism!
Quite good actually, but eating shit isn't necessary
Fantastically twisted and shocking metaphor for fascism. Sade retold through a lens of Dante and set in the short lived republic or Salò. What is the relationship between victimhood and complicity, power and the justification of it through itself, a society of consumers and citizens under totaliterialism, fascist rule and anarchy? Powerful!
Undoubtedly the worst movie ever made. Or ever likely to be made. Absolute garbage.
how is a movie this horrible and disgusting but simultaneously so boring
Most pointless movie I watched in my entire life was better I watch porn instead
made me puke. never again
never again.
A wonderful, powerful film. A statement. And yes, I agree with the others, it really turns your stomach.
This Pier Paolo Pasolini masterpiece, a masterful visualization of an aberrant practice previously reserved for literature, is an extraordinary problem film, twinned with Nagisa Oshima's "Ai no Corrida".
A mad rich man locks up boys and girls in a castle for perverted scatology, rape, and grotesque and violent murder. At the time of its release, this film caused controversy, both domestically and internationally.
Pasolini's remix of the masterpiece novel bequeathed by the Marquis de Sade, the king of perversions.
The final scene symbolizes this perverse microcosm.
It has become a cult favorite, partly because Pasolini was murdered.
this movie is complete garbage
Mediocre, overly rash with not enough story.
Naturally, upon watching this film, I felt disgusted. However, such cinematic work is a reflection of a period when movies catered for more than just repetitive and superficial entertainment, but as a space for thought and provocation. Here we see what human liminality, cruelty and insanity looks like from Pier Paolo Pasolini's equally complex personality. Combine this film with Come and See (1985).
I nearly vomited twice watching this, making it more than a little puzzling that it was banned as pornography. Yes, the film has a lot of nudity and sex scenes, but it is not meant to arouse; it is meant to shock, revolt, and horrify; and it is so successful at this that I would say that anyone aroused by the film probably needs their head examined.
I'm sure this film is exactly what the director wanted it to be but I'm not sure why this is what he wanted it to be.
As far as its technical merits, I'd give the film a 6/10: the cinematography and editing are generally competent but some of the shots are out of focus, the "day for night" shots were unconvincing, and the dubbing is genuinely terrible (not as terrible as watching people eat poop, but still pretty terrible). As far as the story goes, it drags on at least twice as long as it should; the film has little to say and far too long to say it in.
As for its enjoyability, well--that brings me back to the fact that this film has been banned in various places over the years. Why? It's senseless; the film practically bans itself. If I had to choose between watching this again or having a colonoscopy and a root canal, I'd go with the colonoscopy and root canal.
In short, this is an immensely challenging film but I think the challenge ultimately isn't worth it.
Really powerful social criticism, I found it less blasphemous and way more acceptable, due to the critical stance and the artistic value, than other recent films where instead sexuality is commodified.
Like sex with a frigid partner, you have to pretend like you're into it an wait for it to be over.
I don't know what this movie was when it was released, but now it's just pseudo philosophy buried alive under dumps of shock value. It doesn't work as art, and it doesn't work as porn.
This is the kind of movie people say they like because they're afraid of they don't, they'll be seen as prudish or stupid. But it's simply nothing more than a bad movie.
(Note: I saw this in the cinema, and when I came on to log the film, I discovered I'd watched the film on streaming during the lockdown and forgotten about it. At I gave the film a like back then, I guess during the lockdown I was afraid of coming across as a prude or ignoramus. Still, I will give the movie 2 stars for how over the top it goes.)
The original title of the film is Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma.
I will walk out of a film if they spring a rape scene on me, but the perverse sexuality in Saló is as over-the-top as violence in a Tarantino film.
Fortunately, de Sade's ridiculous 'philosophy' is kept to a minimum here, but, unfortunately, the allegory of fascism is totally smothered by the grotesque everything (bad acting, directing, editing, cinematography, writing) of the movie.
Still, one of my biggest faults is I admire a no-holes-barred film that goes all the way to the wall, into the wall, through the wall and over a cliff without ever once stopping to wonder if it should try to be even the slightest but subtle.
Didacticism is forced down your throat, amongst many other things.
2 reasons why I hate this movie. Most of the 1st reason has to do with the sheer dryness and lifelessness that it was and nothing to do with the gore or the beastial nature of the characters. I can tolerate violence in movies and its various forms. It's not a big deal. What really gets to me (and this is true for all films) is when a filmmaker decides to muck around without being coherent or making any actual progress. Like I love Tarantino's OUATIH and it's one of my favorites from that year but, although I admired the writing and direction of the various Brad Pitt scenes in the movie, I couldn't help but notice the sheer insignificance of his character.
So I get what the director was going for with Salo. But my beef is that I get it within the first 20 mins of the movie. I didn't need to go through the rest 100 minutes of more torture metaphors.
And the second reason is the acting. It is so bad. Even the slave actors whose roles are to literally just mimic a mannequin seem unconvincing while doing so. All of this and the bad dubbing just proves how uninterested the director was in the technical aspects and wanted just to concentrate on the shock value.
The Room was my worst movie of all time before I saw this. At least it was unintentionally funny. This is just the director masturbating to what he thinks is a tactful way of translating into screen the atrocities committed against the victims of the war.
Shout by andrew nunesBlockedParent2020-11-25T17:28:57Z
Watching this film was a unique experience. Disgusting, uncomfortable, incorrect. A journey I will never forget.