“In [SALO], sex is nothing but allegory, the metaphor for the commodification of bodies subjected to power. I think that consumerism manipulates and violates bodies neither more nor less than Nazism. My film shows the sinister connection between consumerism and Nazism.”
— Pier Paolo Pasolini, excerpted from the filmmaker’s recently discovered penultimate interview, recorded just weeks before his murder. the interview was thought to be lost, but Pasolini’s swedish translator recently rediscovered all of the materials.
you can / should head over to Richard Brody’s New Yorker blog ”The Front Row” for all of the details and a bit more context. there’s even a link to the raw audio.
