#the 120 days of sodom

[aloneandforsakenbyfateandbyman]

Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975)

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[tobydammit68]

Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975) Dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini

[celestialmega]

Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom by Pier Paolo Pasolini.

[alexanderpearce]

okay well this was kind of funny of me

[bbbeternelle]

‘Nothing is more certain,’ said the Bishop, ‘and from this arises the certitude of the greatest pleasure from the greatest infamy, and the system from which we must not stray, which is that the more pleasure one wishes to gain from crime, the more dreadful this crime will need to be. And as for me, Messieurs,’ he added, ‘if I am permitted to cite myself, I confess I am at the point of no longer feeling that sensation of which you speak – of no longer feeling it, as I say, for small crimes, and if the one I do commit does not combine as much darkness, as much depravity, as much deceit and betrayal as possible, the sensation no longer arises.’ ‘So,’ said Durcet, ‘is it possible to commit crimes as we conceive them and as you describe them? As for me, I confess that my imagination has always been in this respect beyond my means, I have always conceived a thousand times more than I have carried out and have always railed against Nature, who, in giving me the desire to offend her, always robbed me of the means to do so.’ ‘There are no more than two or three crimes to commit in the world,’ said Curval. ‘Once those are done there is no more to be said – what remains is inferior and one no longer feels a thing. How many times, good God, have I not wished it were possible to attack the sun, to deprive the universe of it, or to use it to set the world ablaze – those would be crimes indeed, and not the little excesses in which we indulge, which do no more than metamorphose, in the course of a year, a dozen creatures into clods of earth.’

Marquis de Sade, The 120 Days of Sodom

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[lucienballard]

Salo .... The 120 Days of Sodom

[withteeths]

I AM MADE OF CHALK

[sangue-dolce]

The 120 Days of Sodom has a firm reputation of being about abuse and bodily excretions, and it is, but that does disservice to how much it is also about erectile disfunction. Absolute treatise on impotence fr. The Marquis de Sade literally said no dicks will rise on my watch.

[oceancentury]

Bruno Musso and Paolo Bonacelli in Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975).

[aloneandforsakenbyfateandbyman]

Everybody asks me what’s my ideal wedding and well it’s actually just the disturbing marriage scene from Salo the 120 Days of Sodom.

Not the whole “sadistic aristocrats kidnapping and torturing youth” part but just the getting married in a silver silk dress with a matching floral headdress and bouquet in front of a bored nude audience in an Italian mansion/villa/castle while appearing grim and depressed. I feel like Pasolini was channeling Botticelli X Van Eyck for this film’s aesthetics.

[ravenkings]

If [The 120 Days of Sodom] was the first major work, it was also the decisive step: three years earlier Sade had written the Dialogue between a Priest and a Dying Man in which the ferocity of his atheism and the rigor of his vision were evident, but with The 120 Days he moved further, much further, into a realm of philosophic absolutism from which there could be no retreat. Sade was here declaring all-out war on the society that had judged and imprisoned him, and on that virtue which it preached as the ultimate good. If, up to this time, he had been drawn instinctively to the twin poles of pleasure and vice, now the full power of his intellect entered into the fray. Henceforth he would do all he could to “outrage the laws of both Nature and religion.” Sade was out to shock, as no writer had ever tried to shock his readers before in the history of literature. He was fully aware of what he was about. After describing his main characters and his plan of action in the opening pages of The 120 Days, the author warns:

I advise the overmodest to lay my book aside at once if he would not be scandalized, for ‘tis already clear there’s not much of the chaste in our plan and we dare hold ourselves answerable in advance that there’ll be still less in the execution...And now, friend-reader, you must prepare your heart and your mind for the most impure tale that has ever been told since the world began, a book the likes of which are met with neither amongst the ancients nor amongst us moderns...

–Austryn Wainhouse and Richard Seaver, Introduction to The 120 Days of Sodom

[tobydammit68]

Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975) Dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini

[celestialmega]

Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom by Pier Paolo Pasolini.

[alexanderpearce]

i’m signing you all up for 120 days of sodom daily