If this is culture , then I certainly prefer to be uncultured ! Go ahead see this movie if you have 2 hours to waste! (t
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moiestatz — 16 years ago(December 08, 2009 12:33 AM)
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 -
rtms1988 — 17 years ago(October 11, 2008 08:36 PM)
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." -
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sarahllsjones — 16 years ago(August 14, 2009 02:19 PM)
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.
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eabakkum — 14 years ago(August 01, 2011 06:34 AM)
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. -
gioconda — 14 years ago(October 15, 2011 10:29 PM)
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. -
StanleyVonAnderson — 12 years ago(February 19, 2014 04:36 AM)
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.
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ofumalow — 12 years ago(August 09, 2013 12:08 AM)
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.