Salò or the Hundred and Twenty Days of Sodom

Salograve; or The Hundred and Twenty Days of Sodom (Salograve; o Le centoventi giornate di Sodoma, 1975) is one of the most controversial and scandalous films ever made. It was Pier Paolo Pasolini´s last film; he was murdered shortly after completing it. An adaptation of Sade´s vicious masterpiece, but relocated to Fascist-ruled Italy,Salograve;is an unflinching, violent portrayal of sexual cruelty which many find too disturbing to watch. But insightful artworks are often disturbing. Beneath the extreme, taboo-breaking surface ofSalograve;, Gary Indiana argues, is a deeply penetrating account of human behavior that resonates not only as an account of fascism but as a picture of the corporate, morally compromised world we live in today.