#oh also anon have u ever read the carnivorous lamb bc in a glass cage sort of reminded me of it a little bit -

[obrother1976]

okay now that you’ve seen in a glass cage, here’s what i meant by st. joan and unmade pasolini: one of the inspirations behind the film is gilles de rais. so in my mind that makes rena the joan of arc figure. the joan/rena venn diagram is not one circle, but it does always get me thinking st. joan in the 20th century thoughts as well as thoughts about the general fact that there’s a canonized saint whose friend and supporter was a boykiller. this is the what if gilles de rais adopted joan of arc movie to me (although typing that out i realize you could make a very different film with that starting premise) also i was told that pasolini intended salo to be the first in a trilogy of death to follow up his trilogy of life and that the next one would have been about gilles de rais. so in my heart that makes this movie a sister to that movie that never was. also also i am obsessed with the setting as a metaphor for fascism and it’s legacy. like that place was falling apart to such an extent that it was dangerous to film in (a big piece of glass almost killed the producer). alright! i’ll let you go! have a good day!! :))))

wont lie i diddd have to look up who gilles de rais is (ik fake tumblrina moment </3) but omg!! this is sooo on point. heard about the trilogy of death too & not even sure if we like fully know if thats true or not but idc to me its true and factual and i'll forever be mad we didnt get that. also!! i love a good house metaphor & the fact that it was actually falling apart & a piece of glass almost killed the producer?? thats insane, like obv good that he survived lmao but wow that is soo fascinating, gonna need to look the movie up on wikipedia or smthing cuz now i wanna know more about the production. oh also have a good day anon im literally forever in ur debt for that recommendation (havent been able to stop thinking about it, immediately gonna go back to posting the screenshots i made so look forward to that ig lmao)