So it goes.
So, I'm James, but you can call me Bubba if it's that important to you. I'm a Film and Video Studies major as well as a Journalism major. I write a lot and sometimes I make little movies. Someday I hope to make big movies. I enjoy film and television. Also video games. And the internet. Also I have a great girlfriend Named Melanie, who I have been with for a very long time.
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Salo or The 120 Days of Sodom Pier Paolo Pasolini
I wanted to end this year with a bang by watching this. This is one of the most controversial films ever made and I had heard that it was one of the most shocking and disturbing films ever made. When I was in New York with a couple friends and I saw a bootleg copy being sold on the side walk, I figured “Why not, It’s only a couple bucks.” This film was shocking and disturbing, but I’m not sure if I would call it one of the worst of all time. It did draw some really interesting parallels between the torturers and the audience, about how these guys watching torture is roughly similar to us searching out and watching this film. The basic plot is a bunch of late teens/twenty somethings in WWII Italy are kidnapped and taken to a large estate. There they are tortured, mentally, physically, and sexually for something like 120 days for the amusement of a small group of aristocrats. This was one of those that gets under your skin and just sort of sits there. I think I had a more visceral reaction to something like The Poughkeepsie Tapes, Irreversible or A Serbian Film, but this really stays with you and forces you to think about it, and the implications of it for quite some time. Quite disturbing, if you think you can stomach it, I recommend this.
