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Originally Posted by Geddy
Salo: or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975)
The most brutal and heart-wrenching film I've ever seen. One of those films where you feel dirty after seeing. That being said it was made brilliantly and gratuitous to the point where you have no option but to watch.
-9/10
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Originally Posted by Geddy
Wow, that's a fantastic article. Really sums up a lot of the things I couldn't put my finger on.
Great closing paragraph:
"I am mischievously delighted by the thought of a post-apocalyptic science-fiction future in which all life on the planet has been eradicated by war or an error in high places, and the only record of humanity to survive is, improbably enough, a copy of Salò. I’d love to see the expression on the face of the alien archaeologist (portrayed by Bronson Pinchot) when he views the film, sizing up the human race based solely on the lonely and baffling rituals of its strange inhabitants. Even if Salò could somehow exist in a hypothetical cultural void, no one who watches it with creeping unease can help but be instinctually alarmed by the palpable absence of something crucial from within our modern trappings...humanity."
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I'm glad you found the
Salò experience so rich. It's an important piece of art, and an invaluable marker in the history of not only cinema, but human expression itself. If only all art were that passionate.