[Sans-Culotte]

bad ju-ju for all involved...

I agree. I see no point in this movie. Reminds me of the notorious "art film" Salo: 120 Days of Sodom, made by Peir Paulo Pasolini. It depicted the rape, torture and murder of a bunch of young people at the hands of Fascists in WW2 Italy. People who have seen it says it requires a strong stomach just to get through it. I have never seen it nor plan to. I've argued with its defenders who say "Salo shows the horrors of fascism". I usually say "there's already something that showed the horrors of fascism-it's called WW2!"

Using a popular entertainment method such as film to depict perversions and/or sadism really is "bad ju-ju" IMO.

[durasell]

I've seen it. It's a bore.

[Borges]

Salo is impossible to find. Long out of print. If you can't depict the horrible in films can you do it on stage? In music? In novels? Why should film be treated differently from other artforms?

[ichabod1]

I have the same problem with Oliver Stone's new movie. I don't care HOW good it is, it's not subject matter for entertainment, and I don't need it re-enacted for me.

[B-Chan]

FYI: Saló is based upon the book The 120 Days of Sodom by the unspeakably evil Marquis de Sade -- one of the most hideously evil creatures evil to walk this Earth, and, naturally, one of the patron saints of the internationl intelligentsia.

I have neither read the entire book nor seen the film and do not intend to. The subject matter repulses me.