RLJ (Red Light Jumping). (The definitive bikeradar thread)

Fail.

Salo was never intended to be an accurate biopic of de sade's novel. Pasolini used its framework yes, but Salo is primarily an anti-fascist film.

actually, anti-fascist is the biggest understatement possible. The film is very possibly the best ever example of the use of cinema as an insult. No wonder it got Pasolini run over (by his own car).

I never said it was inaccurate, because you're right, it's not accurate to the novel, it could never cover the amount of stories described in the novel. But I don't think the content (rather than the subversive subtext) was handled very well. It's a very interesting film, meta-cinematically (does that exist as a thing?) due to it's subtext and the context of its creation.

It certainly ruffled some feathers, apparently his death was a hit by Italian Fascists.