PROJECT STRANGE® on Instagram: "Pier Paolo Pasolini, the director of Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, was brutally murdered in 1975, before the film’s release. Officially, 17-year-old Pino Pelosi confessed to killing him after a sexual encounter gone wrong, but decades later he recanted, claiming a group of men carried out the attack and forced him to take the blame. Many people suspected this was not the full story as the film was intensely controversial, depicting torture, sadism, fascist viole

Explaining a Movie on Instagram: "@Explainingamovie teaches you something new about movies everyday! Salò, or The 120 Days of Sodom (1975) is Pier Paolo Pasolini’s final film, and arguably one of the most polarizing ever made. He adapts the Marquis de Sade’s 18th-century text into the last days of Mussolini’s fascist Italy, setting the story in a villa where four officials subject kidnapped youths to a series of escalating degradations. Pasolini uses this extreme cruelty as allegory, stripping t