i’d only watched 40 minutes before i completely shut it off, not because it was too gory or disgusting for me. frankly im perfectly okay and desensitised to gore. the reason is because one third of the way i found out the actors playing victims were all adolescent some even my age (14). many of the adult actors hadn’t acted before this movie or only starred in 1 or 2. this is CLEAR pedophilia. the amount of people attempting to justify this monstrosity by saying; it is a statement or saying its a form of art and political theory is straight wrong. i understand art, i do think the objective of this movie and the overall statement is admirable but the way it is executed is absolutely not. the book was more than enough but there are boundaries to where a movie can portray certain problems. no minor should ever be put through this whether they enjoyed it or not. they well could have had adults to play the victims. if you think this movies contents (not aim) is justified/able you have a very distorted sense morality or you are just a pedophile.

I watched this Movie because of the Director and Author Pier Paolo Pasolini... it was his last movie.
I expected a movie about fashism in society.
But this movie is the most perverse thing I've ever seen!
I was hoping for an explanatory statement at the end of the film. But, for me, there was none.

Once and never again!!!

Undoubtedly the worst movie ever made. Or ever likely to be made. Absolute garbage.

Most pointless movie I watched in my entire life was better I watch porn instead

made me puke. never again

never again.

Disturbing story with some taboo stuff, weird things that don't make sense and at the end there is some gore too.
But overall the movie is super slow and very boring!
After an hour we decided to put it on 2x speed, That's how boring it was...
A lot of things weren't explained and I wish there was more information on why they did certain things.

Naturally, upon watching this film, I felt disgusted. However, such cinematic work is a reflection of a period when movies catered for more than just repetitive and superficial entertainment, but as a space for thought and provocation. Here we see what human liminality, cruelty and insanity looks like from Pier Paolo Pasolini's equally complex personality. Combine this film with Come and See (1985).

Fantastically twisted and shocking metaphor for fascism. Sade retold through a lens of Dante and set in the short lived republic or Salò. What is the relationship between victimhood and complicity, power and the justification of it through itself, a society of consumers and citizens under totaliterialism, fascist rule and anarchy? Powerful!

Watching this film was a unique experience. Disgusting, uncomfortable, incorrect. A journey I will never forget.

Quite good actually, but eating shit isn't necessary

I think this movie is great!
I was reading some comments and I think they all fit perfectly with the author’s aim: he wants you to puke, he wants you to be completely disgusted by that society and he definitely wants you to say:”Once and Never Again” fascism!

how is a movie this horrible and disgusting but simultaneously so boring

I will walk out of a film if they spring a rape scene on me, but the perverse sexuality in Saló is as over-the-top as violence in a Tarantino film.

Fortunately, de Sade's ridiculous 'philosophy' is kept to a minimum here, but, unfortunately, the allegory of fascism is totally smothered by the grotesque everything (bad acting, directing, editing, cinematography, writing) of the movie.

Still, one of my biggest faults is I admire a no-holes-barred film that goes all the way to the wall, into the wall, through the wall and over a cliff without ever once stopping to wonder if it should try to be even the slightest but subtle.