….but it does have a point other than to just be disgusting.
I just feel with
Salo,
the disgustingness of it all, over-powers any message or point its making. It really wasn't too subtle and then masks itself as faux high art.
Norman! What did you put in my tea?

I don't really like the movie either but it does have a point other than to just be disgusting.
Just because I'm not on THEIR side, doesn't mean I'm on YOURS.

In that case, us non-producing homos should be revered as Saviors!
No-one ever accredited the breeder with insight and common sense, only to themselves due to delusions of grandeur.
It worked in the establishment favor to have homosexuality a perversion, as it was used for blackmail purposes and apparently goes against the laws of nature and God's nature…
The easily brainwashed herd never questioned that nature creates us all and the breeder are the ones who create all human species.
Norman! What did you put in my tea?

we know these wars were designed at the time to also deplete the human population.
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I never considered that before. Yuck.
In that case, us non-producing homos should be revered as Saviors!
"My life is over. I might as well dance with Johnny Slash!"

It all boils down to vehement notion of self and aristocratic sense of superiority over others lives.
Being a world at war too, which is man's inhumanity to man as well, ethics and moral lines get blurred and we know these wars were designed at the time to also deplete the human population.
Norman! What did you put in my tea?

"or get tormented as they get older mentally."
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Oh, it's so creepy, but it's so true. These people don't even know that they are, at some level, hurting themselves most of all. These people are likely not deep thinkers. Or feelers. Zero empathy. They respond only to their own senses and their egos.
I was thinking about posting something about the terrible thing that is insanity and I think what you wrote here is very close to that.
"My life is over. I might as well dance with Johnny Slash!"

That is in line with the comment
@I love Hutch
made.
They were sick narcissists and psychopaths. People like that pay in the end, even if they may escape what we deem human consequence. They would meet horrible suffering deaths, or get tormented as they get older mentally.
Norman! What did you put in my tea?

Salo is an exploration of the depravity humans can be capable of when they feel they are immune to any consequences.
That's the reason the villains are wealthy higher ups in a large grand castle. They feel they are above the law.
Just because I'm not on THEIR side, doesn't mean I'm on YOURS.

I just wonder if there are some people out there with so much wealth and so much power that they think they are some kind of superior species, blessed by the gods or something, and think they are justified to do truly terrible things to those who have less. Are they really that bored or ungrateful with their good fortune?
"My life is over. I might as well dance with Johnny Slash!"

I have just added a bit more.
Quick response Mr. Hutch.
Norman! What did you put in my tea?

That's exactly what I think. A horrible and entirely superfluous story made by a not untalented director who may have related a little bit too much to De Sade for comfort.
"My life is over. I might as well dance with Johnny Slash!"

Pasolini appears to have made this film for his own personal gratifications.
I really don't get the point of it, apart from cramming in as much degradation and shock value as he could, without any genuine purpose and then selling it off as art.
While
Hostel
films are thematically about cruelty, for me they operate on a completely different dynamic to
Salo
. They show the depths of depravity that humans will descend too, yet also put a thrilling, suspenseful and more relatable package surrounding the story.
Roth was shocking more with violent imagery, rather than using nakedness to exploit for his own gratification. The nudity/sexuality was for the benefit of the characters seeking out their own hedonistic pleasure and was the draw card to ensnare them into the clutches of this psychopathic club.
Norman! What did you put in my tea?

That about sums it up.
"My life is over. I might as well dance with Johnny Slash!"

Perverted
If we take the time to see with the heart and not with the mind, we shall see that we are surrounded completely by angels ~ Carlos Santana

Quint got the karma he deserved and I love it!

Of course!
If we take the time to see with the heart and not with the mind, we shall see that we are surrounded completely by angels ~ Carlos Santana

Okay, I got it. Thanks for taking the time to respond to my question!
"My life is over. I might as well dance with Johnny Slash!"

Because of how often you think about those scenes and the effect they had on you
If we take the time to see with the heart and not with the mind, we shall see that we are surrounded completely by angels ~ Carlos Santana

It did. I actually saw "Jaws 2" first as I was a bit too young when the original came out. But I remember the summer of 1978 and our downtown theater did its own advertising for the film by having somebody paint this huge mural on the brick wall right next to the theater. I'll never forget it. The mural was the classic image of the shark that we all know and with the blue water. And it was huge. That brick wall is still there and it's at least 30 feet tall, so, yeah the image of the shark was huge. Quite frightening!
I think I do have a vivid imagination. But, if I may ask, what made you think that?
"My life is over. I might as well dance with Johnny Slash!"

That film really had an affect on you
You must have a very vivid imagination
If we take the time to see with the heart and not with the mind, we shall see that we are surrounded completely by angels ~ Carlos Santana

I hate that I do that. I think Chrissie and Quint's deaths just freaked me out so much and I can't shake it.
The fear the movie's poster elicits is universal. And I have had so many nightmares centering on Chrissie being attacked by the shark below. They started when I was around 15 or 16 and on the average I have about two of them a year. So, that's around 70 times I have dreamt of Chrissie and her mortal fear. Actually, I can go maybe 2 or 3 years without having one, but then I'll have four of them in six months. The last Chrissie nightmare I had was about 3 weeks ago. They are always vivid.
In fact, years and years ago, on the original IMDB boards, my online moniker was, for a very brief time, "I Dream of Chrissie".
"My life is over. I might as well dance with Johnny Slash!"

I watched a clip of the scene where Travolta's gun goes off. He was stupid for pointing it at him when he was talking
Yes, Chrissie's death was very realistic
Why would you imagine you're Quint? Terrible
If we take the time to see with the heart and not with the mind, we shall see that we are surrounded completely by angels ~ Carlos Santana

It's on accident. Samuel Jackson drives over a bump or something and JT's gun goes off in the face of a kid. QT turns it into dark humor.
Quint's death was horrific. Chrissie's death is the more disturbing, but once in a while at night I imagine I am Quint and the shark is at the end of my bed and I am sliding into its mouth. Horrible.
"My life is over. I might as well dance with Johnny Slash!"

Thank you
If we take the time to see with the heart and not with the mind, we shall see that we are surrounded completely by angels ~ Carlos Santana