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You guys are not ready for this movie


You are just not. This movie is just...too much. Lol

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You definitely have to be tough to sit through it from beginning to end, lol.

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I have it on Criterion blu-ray.

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I watch this movie every Christmas day (I shit thee not)

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I’m into all kinds of obscure cinema but I’ve always stayed away from this one. What are the reasons I should change my mind?

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None.

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Well, it definitely does contain enough material and shock value in it to offend the tastes of ordinary movie goers. It will indeed be too much for a lot of viewers content wise. With scenes of violence, murder, sexuality and also sexual violence, torture, degradation, some taboo scenes of coprophilia etc indeed, a lot of people aren't ready for this type of movie.

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None it’s stupid boring and forgettable.

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Who do you say doesn't have the cajones to sit through Saló? Back in my day, everybody read the Marquis de Sade and we all loved the Marxist interpretation Passolini gave to 120 Days of Sodom. My friends and I sometimes have coprophagic parties to honor both de Sade and Passolini.

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In addition to shock value and provocative as well as adult material, maybe one of the issues would be that some viewers may MISUNDERSTAND the movie, including the reasons and purposes that it was made and had those scenes included.

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So what? Coprophagic parties is common to the level of near mandatory in liberal circuits.

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