![]() ![]() The Boccacio villa is moved to the late WW2 Salo republic in Italy, where Mussolini had his last stronghold. ![]() ![]() I would also add a biblical-galenical flirt with the four "apocalyptic" body fluids, even if Pasolini uses s*** instead of gall. ![]() This is the literary fond of the story: De Sades lust, Boccacios splendid, isolated, depraved bourgeoise and Dantes symbolic re-birth and claims for his loved one Beatrice. This may be the second most important book after the Bible and describes a journey from the Purgatory, through the deepest caves of the Inferno, that finally ends in Heaven. The film is furthermore divided into sections, called circles, which is a direct parallell to Dante's Divine Comedy. The renaissance allowed the focus to somewhat move from God towards Man. The setting in a rural villa outside the plagued Florence with prostitutes as storytelling muses is taken from Boccacio's Decameron, the first book written in Italian and not in Latin, thus beeing one of the indicators of the italian renaissance. The main storyline is taken from De Sade and gives the story its elements of nihilism and sexual extravagance. I strongly recommend this film to anyone over age 15. ![]()
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