So I bought a Pier Paolo Pasolini collection (only 5 movies though) today and expected a lot of nausea and depression. I decided to watch them in chronological order.
Mamma Roma (1962): A black and white movie. Pretty boring one also. Tells about a whore who's not whore anymore and her beloved son disrespects her and blah blah. Nothing fancy happens. Doesn't even reach Pasolini standards.
Decamerone (1971): An adaption from the book by the same name written by Boccacio - the first short story collection ever. And holy shit, this has to be the funniest movie I've seen all year. I seriously recommend this one. There are some titties n stuff, but no gore. Pasolini himself also plays a part here. Five stars.
I'll spoil one of the stories as an example. A guy gets invited by a really pretty lady to her house. Of course the guy goes - he wants to screw her. When he gets there, the lady explains to him that she is actually his sister. They have the same father, and he apparently had an affair, thus came the sister. The guy is happy to hear this and eats dinner together with his sister and spends the night. Later he asks where the toilet is and gets guided there. However, the floor fails and he falls and gets a nice shit bath. While swimming in the crap, his "sister" scams him and he has to climb up to window, and jump down (a high fall, must hurt). Outside he yells for his clothes and money, but gets no answer. Then he wanders to a church and sleeps there. Two guys come there, notice a nasty smell, find him and laugh at him for about a minute. They offer a job for him though. A bishop died earlier that day and was put into coffin in the very same church. In the coffin he is with a ruby ring worth a lot of money. While the two guys open the coffin, he has to climb there and get the ruby. Well he gets there, puts the ruby in his panties and gives all bishop's clothes instead. The guys won't believe him and close the coffin, leaving him there with bishop's corpse. However, more people were aware of the ruby and opened the coffin. They argue who goes in, until someone says "oh come on, it's just a dead body. its not gonna bite or anything". So he goes in, and the guy bites his leg. They run away scared and screamin, leaving the coffin open. The guy happily gets away in shitty clothes and a ruby ring on his finger.
The Canterbury tales (1972): ---
Tales of the Arabian Nights (1974): ---
Salò: The 120 Days of Sodomy (1975): I've actually seen this one already. Don't know if I have the balls to go through this again. We'll see...
I'll update the rest later when I've watched them.
