#or death (the musician + ezio and the maid) is a bleak message

[frankensteincest]

Salò thoughts ten days after watching it because I’ve finally processed it.

the four fascists calling themselves ‘the true anarachists’, nominally advocating for social freedom, praising ‘sodomy’ for its subversive nature and ability to collapse social and moral boundaries, art and aestheticism to facilitate their activities — all of it building up to posit that all acts are morally neutral in and of themselves & that their morality is dependent on who propagates them, in what context, and to what effects. brilliant and devastating. very in line with the bibliography at the beginning of the film.

‘they don’t realise that the bourgeoisie has never hesitated to kill its children’ rawest line in film probably

the musician(?) was my favourite character for her role in the story: choosing hollow humour to drown out her brief moment of outspoken horror during the wedding + her ‘suddenly’ realising the gravity of the situation and ending her life were a good representation of apathy that does not exempt one from complicity.

the closing scene and the dream of Marguerite outside of all this horror but still connected to it. I want to kms