This Pier Paolo Pasolini masterpiece, a masterful visualization of an aberrant practice previously reserved for literature, is an extraordinary problem film, twinned with Nagisa Oshima's "Ai no Corrida".
A mad rich man locks up boys and girls in a castle for perverted scatology, rape, and grotesque and violent murder. At the time of its release, this film caused controversy, both domestically and internationally.
Pasolini's remix of the masterpiece novel bequeathed by the Marquis de Sade, the king of perversions.
The final scene symbolizes this perverse microcosm.
It has become a cult favorite, partly because Pasolini was murdered.

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