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Should it be seen? over 3 years ago

I think that this movie is a milestone of the cinema, and that passolini is a oracle. More than see Salo for the, obviously, disgusting torture scenes, you must see it as a testament, a last cry of a person, a really sensible, smart, artistic person, who is telling us “the marvelous humanity can become is becoming nothing more than a group of person happy with opress and another group of person happy with be opressed”. You must mind the mechanism of opression that Passolini put in scene in Salo : the word, the tone of the voice, the orders. From the word comes the real violence in Salo. Maybe, i suppose that only maybe, great amount of the reject we in ours days feel for Salo is because that, underground, we didn’t see a lot of difference in our world between the countryside house of the fascist and, let’s say, guantánamo usa’s illegal prisson. And for Passolini who was, i reppeat, an oracle this is only the beggining…

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