Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 2:36 am
3A6EA5 ftw
for those who condemn salo as pornographic etc., i would ask them to name which moments they find erotic. in this film of sex, is there anything that we could possibly find arousing? in this film of violence, is there anything that we could possibly find exciting? if answering yes, we are surely just like the perpetrators of these 'events.'
Pier Paolo Pasolini, as is well known, was murdered not long after he finished work on this, his most audacious and confrontational film, yet even the most casual viewing of SALO begs the question - had he not been murdered, would he have taken his own life anyway? Every sequence, every shot and practically every moment of this film is so burdened with despair, barely concealed rage and a towering disgust with the human race, one gets the impression that Pasolini was barely hanging onto life - and any attendant shreds of hope - by his fingernails. Although ostensibly an adaptation of one of DeSade's most depraved works channeled through the horrifying excesses of the Second World War with the Fascist ruling classes as its (authentically vile) villains, SALO also contains a lot of contemporary criticism - Pasolini hated the modern world, and explained the stomach-churning 'banquet of s**t' as a none-too-subtle attack on the encroaching global domination of the fast food chains.
The true dark side of human nature: When evil is born out of simple boredom, when it comes naturally. It is a film that I don't want to see ever again, but at the same time I'm glad it was made. I thought hated it at first, but I now I realized is not true. Of course I don't love it either. I can't decide how to judge it. I don't like the cinematography or the acting. But it was definitely one of the most profound emotional experiences of revulsion I've had in a film. It is a necessary evil if you can endure it.
Not even linkage with a warning?Transient wrote:I don't think I can post my desktop. It's a pic I drew in Photoshop of a nude woman, but last I checked, nude art wasn't allowed.
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I guessed the movie and it makes me feel special.BlueGene wrote:I'm suprised no one has guessed the movie, it's probally the most messed up movie ever made.
I've posted the following image in desktop threads and it's been allowed, so go for it:Transient wrote:I don't think I can post my desktop. It's a pic I drew in Photoshop of a nude woman, but last I checked, nude art wasn't allowed.
awesome worddmmh wrote:gedeeplinked
Nope, totally free. You have to patch XP's uxtheme.dll before XP will allow you to use the theme though.Nightshade wrote:Thanks ilumos. Is that a WinXP theme? Is that one you have to pay for? Or is it Windowblinds or something?
that's why you don't ask and just do it.Transient wrote:In the past I've been told that if I had to ask, then the answer was no.
So essentially my first post was just a big tease.
Grudge wrote:awesome worddmmh wrote:gedeeplinked
Lol coincidence :PCrinklyArse wrote:[lvlshot]http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e299/Resplended/desktop2.jpg[/lvlshot]
edit: :lub: Dave
and so grammatically incorrectGrudge wrote:awesome worddmmh wrote:gedeeplinked