Salo or 120 Days of Sodom by Pier Paolo Pasolini
 

Has anyone seen this movie? I thought it was very disturbing, and felt sick to my stomach after seeing it.

I've seen it. It's a classic. Very disgusting but there's a lot of "subliminal" political stuff in it. The shit-dinner is some kind of "protest" against the fast food industry and such.

My old teacher saw it on the cinema on the premiere of it. cool dude.

I actually found it pretty bland. Watching old men drool over teenage boys grows quite tiresome after 5 minutes, let alone 2 hours.

I enjoyed it

It blew my mind the first time I saw it. During repeated viewings I always got the sense that it's too cerebral for its own good, but not as cerebral as Porcile or Teorema. Mamma Roma remains my favorite film of his. Anna Magnani is a goddess.

sounds like an intriguing movie.

I want to watch it now.

I recommend you to watch Pasolinis other movies.

He is being all drowned with people who only know of him because of Salo, which is far away from his best.

I thought it was bland...

Yeah, more notorious than great. I don't know if I'd call it bland but boring, definitely. Which at least keeps it consistent with the book.

Yeah. I torrented this one a few weeks ago. I deleted it a few days later.

For the most part: Pasolini's films are mostly unwatchable only because he's such a shitty craftsman, and it's ONLY for the subversion/exploitation that I sometimes watch his stuff. And there wasn't nearly enough in this one.

ST MATTHEW's the only Pas. where I feel the material transcends (haha) the director's astonishing lack of simple filmmaking skills. MAMA ROMA, perhaps his second best, is "good", but it also feels like "Italian neo-realism by the book". I felt like I'd seen it a hundred times before.

The best thing about this movie is the Morricone soundtrack. Everything is filmed in a very flat ugly style. Atmospherically it is quite strange but its just so slow and ... there just isn't much to it. The book is slightly more entertaining, but in both cases, the story behind the story (like Pasolini being murdered after this film was completed, apparently because of this film) is a lot more interesting than the works themselves.

Trivia: At one point, the original Criterion DVD for this went for around $840. I knew a guy with a copy of it, too (though his was opened, so it was "only" probably worth like $500), but he wouldn't part with it.