Perhaps the greatest debut in cinematic history. At last one connotates the sarced and the profane. This is not a neo-realist film, as others may suggest. Pasolini is not intent on de-mythifying and de-sacralising but rather on “re-sacralising” human existence even if this means a re-evocation of the primordial links between violence and the sacred, the dark root of all sacrificial religions as well as the basis of the Greek idea of tragedy.