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sponiatowski ago

That's "Salo: 120 Days of Sodom" and I ONCE saw the film. It has no plot just scene after scene of ritual child abuse and torture. The stunning thing about the film is that all the tortured children LOVED their masters by the end of the film. It glorifies nothing and makes the abuse revolting. I can't say I'll ever recommend it though, as it was to me. Yet if you want to know what the Axis Powers were like in private during WW2, Salo is the way to go. There is not a shred, not an iota of "mercy" in that film. And Classical Piano is played throughout. Appalling.

equineluvr ago

Your post suggests that this was not acting for a movie but that torture and abuse actually occurred during the filming. ?

If so, that would be Stockholm syndrome.

sponiatowski ago

Many people who see the film have decided it's real, though everything was thoroughly investigated and every actor was an adult and all torture scenes were fake. Stockholm syndrome was definitely portrayed at the end of the film. The only way to describe the film is "art or education" because it certainly had no plot, and it wasn't boring but compelling, because I sympathized with the children, I just was appalled when they looked with love at their torturers at the end. To me, the message of the film was that if you don't stop this early and right away, it is too late because the victim is becoming the victimizer. It's hard to recommend because it is so revolting, but its message and the fact it had "bad people" initiating "bad things" (the Fascists) I am not moved to condemn the film as evil. I just hope no one watching it gets funny ideas.