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Salo par Gary Indiana

Le journaliste et critique homosexuel Gary Indiana a publié un essai brillant sur Salo ou les 120 jours de Sodome, de Pasolini.
Je vous invite à lire cette entrevue qu'il a récemment accordée au British Film Institute. Des propos lumineux!

Extrait:

"What's depicted in the film is a situation of total control over certain individuals by other individuals. These controlling individuals represent the apparatus of the state: clergy, banking, etc. In Salò the model of totalitarianism has been given a kind of desublimated lubricity that's never found in totalitarian regimes, which are invariably puritanical. Yet the appeal of fascism is an erotic one, and Pasolini wanted to show this as an explicit thing, the power to control another person's body, to use it sexually while destroying it, to get sexual pleasure from another person's suffering."