Yo mama's a bad movie!

Im with you. Its boring. I got asleep. I give some credits that it may have some moments.
But pasolini dont have the skills of Visconti.

There's always some dummy who will post a "worst movie ever" or similar post simply because he or she doesn't get the significance of a particular film within its particular cultural/social/time context, or somehow stumbled upon this movie after a lifetime of watching spoon-feeding mainstream Hollywood films. Either way, they are not the intended audience, and the fact that they don't "get it" means nothing to the rest of us.

Congratulations, your wish is fulfilled.

I've seen about 8 Pasolini films at this stage, and this was BY FAR the most difficult to understand. If you are going to say that this one is not, all I can deduce is that you CLEARLY did not understand ANY of his films, let alone this one.

I consider this movie a masterpiece, and I've seen it many times.
I went to UCLA film school so maybe I'm just a film buff, but I love this movie.
Many Pasolini films are difficult to understand, but this one is not. Recommended to anyone over 16 years of age, which appears to be the average age of those that post on IMDB.

Hello,
The lack of content is probably also due to the "Anything goes" attitude of the generation 69. This was her typical weakness, although otherwise she deserves praise for her fight for civil rights and peace. This same attitude can be see for instance in "Strawberry Statement". The resistance against authority derailed into lack of principles and common sense.

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Let's celebrate!!! IMHO Pasolini is hateful as so this movie.
Roberta Trevisan
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Judging by your comment, it seems that you don't watch a lot of films on the art side. No offense, but how the hell did you come across this film without knowing what it is?!

I didn't understand it but I liked Terence Stamp.
One of these days I gotta get myself organizized.

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It is one of the worst movies I have ever seen. In less than half-an-hour, the maid, the son, the father, the mother and the daughter had slept with the boy!!! I dont know why they left out the dog. awful film.

I don't know if it's good or bad, because I don't get it. I haven't lost 2 hours of my life watching this movie, but I want to understand it! I've never watched no movie by Pasolini before that.
Roberta
"The camera lies all the time; lies 24 times/second." -
Brian de Palma

Excellent save!
I would like to add that I thought the black and white scenes of the family being introduced is also symbolic of their colorless, dull lives versus the scenes after the telegram is received: The Visitor brought with Him color, awakening, and life.
An interview with Pasolini here also lends some explanation to the markedly different experience of the maid post-Visitor-coitus: http://www.moviecrazed.com/outpast/pasolini.html

But "Teorema" has nothing in it!, nothing!
Au Contraire!
A documentary opening sequence depicting a factory being given to the people (Bourgeoisie giving ownership to proletariat), which signifies the dissolution of revolution (take it, now we are equal, revolution is over, class identities abolished, we are all the same, what else is there?)
A desert wasteland - a metonymy for inner emptiness, a world pre-industry/consumerism, a world post-industry/post-consumerism
Jarring black and white scenes introducing the family members, a messenger of G-d delivering a telegram to the family announcing the arrival of an unknown visitor
A visitor engaging in metaphorical sexual romps with the family
Ecstasy opens eyes of family members
The stranger tells them he must leave
The experience leaves them stripped of their identifies and behaviours, and they tell him of their transformation
Their reason is eclipsed, and their daily routines are shattered, their lives and thoughts and actions become increasingly opaque and ambiguous and nebulous
This may be Pasolini's interpretation of what occurs when people accept Jesus as their L-rd and Saviour (represented by the family accepting the stranger's divine sexual offerings) - once they accept him, they no longer have a need to seek answers to life's mysteries, the search for G-d is over, the search for being divinely touched is over
Or Pasolini is saying that once a person is divinely touched and/or accepts Jesus, new unanswerable questions bloom, new haunting questions with no answers that consume people to death
They have been given what they have been seeking (like the workers being given the factory), does the Knowledge end their quest (which leads to self-destruction) or expand the quest beyond unfathomable borders, engulfing them to death?
Except for the maid (the worker), the family members (the materialistic Bourgeoisie) mentally self-destruct, unable to cope with being spiritually/divinely touched
Enlightenment - what they have been searching for - consumes them.
Be careful what you wish for, yes?
Back to Emilia, the worker owning nothing except the dirt of the earth - she leaves the family, realizes she possess powers, performs miracles, then decides to give herself up to humankind (like Jesus)
I wrote on another thread - She knows she has transcended humankind, she wants to be buried, not to die, but to weep, to weep life-essence into the soil to rejuvenate humankind, to allow her hope and faith and life to nourish the earth and mankind, to invest the earth (and thus people) with faith to Believe
The worker enriches the earth with life source, the wealthy classes self-destruct, the father enters the volcanic desert wasteland, fleeing everything, running towards he knows not what, animalistic, a cry of desperation escaping him, as he likely seeks to find answers

"Teorema" is the first and only movie by Pasolini that have left me totally cold, so far.
I've immensly enjoyed some of his movies such as "Accatone" or "Mamma Roma", or I felt intrigued, puzzled, disgusted, pushed, angry, etc at some other of his movies, (which was Pasolini's intention IMO) like "Sal" or "Porcile".
But "Teorema" has nothing in it!, nothing! I have seen it not one nor two times but three times in the last 15 years, being the last one just one week ago. Everytime the result was the same: emptiness. The movie is about some almost speechless people who after the arriving (and further departure) of a stranger (A sort of Jesus Christ? perhaps?) turns upside down their lives in a nonsensical way.
I know that NOT every movie must make sense, I know that NOT every movie must have a "meaning". At least not an obvious one. But IMHO any movie at least must try to express something!
That's why I've enjoyed such radical films like "Un chien andalou" "Naked Lunch", "L'ge d'or", "Eraserhead", "Persona", etc.
That is not the case with "Teorema".
Either its a masterpiece that only a few illuminated ones can fully understand and appreciate, or it's just an empty piece of filmmaking.
So unless "Teorema" is an exercise about "emptiness" on filmmaking (In which case it's a complete success), the movie IMO is over-pretentious and vacuous.
Ohh well, Pasolini was human as well
PS: Having said ALL THAT, I still prefer to see "Teorema" once again than to see "High School Musical" and crap like that. c ya!

I liked Garden State too and can't wait for the next Zach Braff movie.

Hey, I like "Garden State" and can appreciate "Teorema" and films like it.
"I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican." - Dan Quayle

go watch garden state or something

One of my film instructors told us that if we don't get a movie or don't like it we should examine why we feel that way. Think about the films you didn't care for on first viewing and trying watching a few of them again and see if you change your mind. I have done this several times and, with few exceptions, realized that watching a film in a different setting, on a different day, a different season of the year perhaps, changed my perspective drastically.

what do those of you who think this is offensive think of pasolini's Gospel According to Saint Matthew? it was also considered blasphemous when released, but personally it's the only movie about the bible i would ever claim to like, let alone love (which i think i do). see it, if you haven't. i'm not being perverse; you get the sermon on the mount verbatim (in translation), and yet a far more radical picture of your jesus than even the last temptation of christ (!, i'm told). i wonder.

it's just full of symbolism and metaphores. I like the criticism towards capitalism and family values of that time (1968 was a hot year, expecially in Italy)

You know it is entirely possible to think that both Teorema and The Sound of Music are good films - they happen to be two of my favourites.