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Filmen följer ju Dantes Inferno ganska löst med de 4 parallella storyna: Anteinferno, Circle of Manias, Circle of Shit och Circle of Blood. Jag tyckte man kunde finna även referenser till Decamorone.
Filmcensuren släppte ju filmen oklippt här då det ansågs vara ett kulturellt mästerverk. Man kan ju förstå vilken kontroversiell film det var då.. Idag bryr ju sig ingen. Det finns absolut ingen att reagera på ens. Lite snusk, lite naket, lite våld. So what.
Snusk: jämför gärna med filmen 9 Songs. Det ska vara en spelfilm med precis som Baise-Moi knullar man rejält och visar hur skådisarna gör det på riktigt!
Våld och tortyr: ta vilken amerikansk film som helst så finner man mer utstuderat och exploaterad våld.
Det enda man idag kan roa sig med är ju att skaffa sig alla versioner av filmen. 145 minuter var originalet innan Pasolini klippte bort 25 minuter långt senare. BFI släppte tydligen den längsta versionen på DVD (112 min) och sen kom Criterion med sin. Den är ju en av de mest eftertraktade releaserna.
Nice hints towards Dante there. Been around that myself...
Well. Some background info that might clarify the thinking about, and behind, this movie. This might make redundant, but I think its crucial to try to understand Pasolini, his virulent hatred for (especially Italian) fascism, and his motifs for making this flick. And Sì, he was a great admirer of Donatien Alphonse François de Sade.
Salò – last fascist Phoenix stance for the “Italian Socialist Republic (A broken ‘Il Duce’ was set by a direct order from Gröfaz, an intriguing escape flight from his imprisonment from Gran Sasso, by a Fiesler Storch Fi 156C, hence the conditions by a STOL craft: “Operation Eiche (Oak)”, orchestrated by one of the greatest villains from the 20th C, Haupt/Obersturmbannführer Otto Skorzeny)". It is located on the west shore of Lago di Garda, NE of Brescia.
1 Nov 1975. PPP (once upon a time convicted for blasphemy by the Holy See) was murdered the day after he had met Ingmar Bergman a o usual suspects in Stockholm. He was at RomaTermini railway stn, where he encountered a guy, later identified as Giuseppe Pelosi, 17.
Later to Idroscalo, by the sea, outskirts Ostia, where he usually prowled after young boys, his MO.
At 0130 AM, Carabinieri spotted an Alfa R speeding, turned it over, checked the vehicle and found out that it belonged to PPP. Ca 03.30 AM, PPPs massacred body was found, beaten with a stick (some claim he was also stabbed several times?), and subsequently being run over by his own car by GP.
Investigation follows: Earlier. After PPP bought GP a meal at Biondo Tevere: “volereper fare un giro?”
According to Pelosi after confession, claimed that in the car, PPP wanted to “sodomize” GP w/ a wooden stick[!], and the delinquent turned the offer made – down. PPP then struck the boy, who tried to run, he found a wooden table, broke of one of the legs and battered the director to death (The Sherlock inside whispers, something does not add up). He then stole the macchina, and, an ‘urto in strada’. That bump was the body of PPP.
The rest is history? A lot of conspiracy dances around the murkiness of PPPs fate that night.
"I consider consumerism to be a worse form of fascism than the classic variety."
- PPP
Source: Left winger activist and journalist Ed Vulliamy (The Guardian) and Abel Ferrara.
So, the movie? … Grazie, ma no.
Betänk på att berättartempot var ett helt annat för fyrtio år sedan. 
Huruvida den är något mästerverk kommer säkert alltid vara föremål för diskussion, såsom för många filmer, men sevärd är den allt. 
