Saló, Pier Paolo Pasilini.

Hello guys!

Today I’ll talk about cinema; I’ve always like watch movies alone or with my friends.  A few years ago I stared to be interested about French and Italian cinema, directors like Jean Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Eric Rohmer, Robert Bresson and Pier Paolo Passolini.

Pier Paolo Pasolini was born in Italy at 1922, he was a writer, poet and film director. He was communist and his movies always have that politic influence.

My favorite Pasolini’s movie is Saló, also called 120 days of Sodom, is based in the Marques of Sade’s novel, Marques of Sade wrote it in 1785 while he was in jail. The argument of his book is about four rich and psycho men who decide to live in a castle four 120 days with their victims and their accomplice. There are also 4 prostitutes who start to narrate sadistic stories that lived a few years ago, after that, the 4 men decide to make exactly the same to their victims. Pasolini’s screen version transforms this man in politics of Republic of Salò, the fascist state in the north of Italy after the defeat of Mussolini in Second war world.

I saw this film a few years ago, I don’t remember when, exactly. But I remember it because I like the way that Pasolini relate the film and especially the harshness of the pictures that made a big impression on me. Without that, I don't recognize any actor, they are unknown to me. After he made this movie, the government started pursuing him around Italy to kill him because the controversy that his movie caused.