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In Reply to: Re: Thanks Scott and Victor..more. posted by Victor Khomenko on October 03, 2000 at 07:23:31:

okay.. i ordered the grand bouffe but as for salo, I will rent it. or buy it second hand. Not sure.... I know what you mean. After your recommendation, I looked up reviews and they were just what you said too. After you said the same thing, I think I have a fair idea of his brilliance and his increasing anger at the public media reaction. And of his brilliance gradually being used by him in not the best way.... happens to the best of people in various aspects of life actually. his story itself is a movie in the making.
movies like cook the thief etc. are fine with me.. 301/302 was fine too. but this one sounds a bit tough to watch and more harder to justify owning for repeated watching. Dunno whether i would want to watch it more than once.
cheers and thanks for the feedback.

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I would respectfully disagree a little. Scott Wurcer 18:22:59 10/03/00 (1)
Passolini's earlier works are clearly better though I would need a refresher for a final judgement today. People get distracted by the strong sexual content in the later films. I generally don't find consentual same-sex or any sex acts for that matter offensive, or even discomforting, and therefore found some boredom in his later works. I would agree with those that find more of the ultimate gross-out in 'Salo' than art. BTW he was another tragicly murdered gay artist (sort of like Col. Hogan :).
If you ever had a friend who was a victim of incest you would understand that '301/302' is simply one of the most powerful, beautiful, and frightening films ever on the subject. It is worth a dozen PBS documentaries.
- I meant that I buy the cuisine movies ..... more.. Ran 19:53:51 10/03/00 (0)
  oh, i dont think i said that i find anything disturbing. Frankly I dont find anything in MOVIES disturbing. And I thought 301/302 was good and bought it because it is part of my cuisine/food collection of art movies which I like. I think of expression in art especially in the most liberal way possible. Just a question of what movies I want to see repeatedly versus what I want to see by renting. I generally get the cuisine movies for keeps since it is part of my collection. Now if a cuisine movie has R, x or whatever rating, I still just buy it. But another kind of movie I may not. So my decision was more related to genre.

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