Four corrupted fascist libertines round up 9 teenage boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of sadistic physical, mental and sexual torture.
If Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom hit you the right way, here are Hollywood films that share its DNA. Same emotional weight, same kind of stories, same kind of payoff.
What ties these together is feeling powerless and loss of innocence. They share the same lens on life under oppression, colonial history, and corrupt institutions. Both move the same way too, haunting, bleak, and slow burn.
Both films sit with injustice, feeling powerless, and shame. The world both films live in revolves around class and money, life under oppression, and corrupt institutions. Both move the same way too, bleak, brutal, slow burn, and methodical.
What ties these together is rage and loss of innocence. The world both films live in revolves around colonial history and class and money. The feel is the same: bleak, brutal, slow burn, and methodical.
Tag overlap with Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom across multiple dimensions.
Tag overlap with Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom across multiple dimensions.
