Explaining a Movie on Instagram: "@Explainingamovie teaches you something new about movies everyday! Salò, or The 120 Days of Sodom (1975) is Pier Paolo Pasolini’s final film, and arguably one of the most polarizing ever made. He adapts the Marquis de Sade’s 18th-century text into the last days of Mussolini’s fascist Italy, setting the story in a villa where four officials subject kidnapped youths to a series of escalating degradations. Pasolini uses this extreme cruelty as allegory, stripping t

Cinephile Sphere on Instagram: "Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom is a deeply controversial and disturbing film directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini, based on the infamous novel by Marquis de Sade. Set in the final days of Mussolini's fascist regime in Italy, the story follows four wealthy and powerful men who abduct a group of young boys and girls, taking them to a secluded villa. Over the course of 120 days, the victims are subjected to horrific acts of psychological manipulation, sexual abuse, and ph