Pasolini today


Some IMDb comments suggest his movies "aged." I wonder what's Pasolini's fans' view. I still like "The Trilogy of Life" and many other movies by PPP and will gladly take them over most of today's Hollywood productions.

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i'm agree with you. the Pasolini's movies can't be aged because they talk about people as it was during centuties, because they talk about life and death as natural things, because they talk about the joy of life and the cruelty of life, the fun and the dark. The Pasolini's movies can't be aged because they show real people, real bodies.
If someone thinks these movies are aged perhaps in this time we have lost that sense of life, faces and bodies. And if the model of movies are those we are in mind as typical of this time, i think this is a sad time without life in movies full of cloned bodies.

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I found the only thing "dated" about Il Decameron was the really bad post-dub -- the Italian post-dub, I mean! But I also realise filming outdoors and on location, as most of this film was, meant filming MOS with all its inherent synch-problems.

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Intolerant people should all be killed.

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True, you won't find cloned bodies in Pasolini's movies. :)
Hey, it's cool to see responses to a thread I started years ago. Thanks, guys.

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I'm not sure which films were referred to as having "aged", but I certainly don't think "The Decameron" has, nor "Canterbury Tales" or "Arabian Nights" for that matter.

I just watched these 3 on Netflix instant streaming and found I enjoyed them as much now as I did when I first viewed them on the big screen when they were initially released. In fact, I marvel more now at just how much Pasolini put into these films, in terms of costumes, locations, making me feel as if I was stepping back in time and getting a feel of how things must have looked and sensed back then. As someone else pointed out on another thread, just for a sense of history, if nothing else....Pasolini did an an excellent job with the trilogy. I think they hold up very well, indeed!

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