Pier Paolo Pasolini’s final film, Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975), is widely regarded as one of the most controversial and disturbing works in cinema history. It transposes the Marquis de Sade's 18th-century novel to the final days of World War II in the fascist Republic of Salò in northern Italy.
Pasolini uses extreme acts of sexual and physical torture as a metaphor for how authoritarian regimes treat their subjects as mere commodities . SalГІ, or the 120 Days of Sodom
The narrative is divided into four segments inspired by Dante’s Divine Comedy : the Anteinferno, the Circle of Manias, the Circle of Shit, and the Circle of Blood. Pier Paolo Pasolini’s final film, Salò, or the
The film serves as a brutal allegory for fascism and the dehumanizing nature of absolute power. The narrative is divided into four segments inspired
Reviewers from The New Yorker describe it as "essential to have seen but impossible to watch," noting it represents depravity that may be unsurpassable.