Actors: Paolo Bonacelli, Giorgio Cataldi, Hélène Surgère, Caterina Boratto
Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Salo, or The 120 Days of Sodom
Inspired by the Marquis de Sade's book, SALO is a movie written and directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini in 1975.
At the end of WWII, four Italian dignitaries gather eight young men and eight young girls in an old mansion. While three prostitutes are telling salacious anecdotes, the dignitaries play, at first, dirty games with their prisoners then, little by little, propose more violent and degrading activities.
The second half of this very disturbing film proposes a complete catalogue of the sexual perversions described by the Marquis de Sade and ends with unbearable scenes of torture.
For adults, only.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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Analysis of Salo, or The 120 Days of Sodom
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1930's-1950's
Taboo Sex Story?
Yes
Kind of sex:
- rape
- molestation
- really kinky sex!
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
Eccentric:
Yes
- obsessed
Hair color?
- brunette (Black)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) average
Events of movie makes character more...
- happy
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Italian
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Sense of humor?
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- blonde
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn curly
Body type
- (woman) average
How much in movie?
- 40%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Italian
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- Italy
Misc setting
- fancy mansion
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- very explicit references to deaths and torture
Movie makes you feel...
- in awe
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- orgies
- lesbians!
- actual description of sex
- seeing breasts
- seeing nude female butt
- seeing nude male butt
- seeing full frontal--women
- seeing full frontal--men
- sex with icepick
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- Italian
Subtitles?
- Yes
Any profanity?
- Some foul language
If soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Orchestra/classical
Is this movie based on a
- book
