Please accept my fullest apologies, I wrote quickly, complete with
misspellings, and regret that particular line...what I meant to comment upon
is that many people refer to Salo without having seen it.
 
As to your point, that Pound's enthusiastic support of Fascism is a
significant reason behind Pasolini's inclusion of the canto reading doesn't
that assume that the film is about or concerned with fascism. I would
contend that it isn't, the Salo republic is as much a backdrop to the film
as the art décor furniture, the 30's songs, and the dantean structure...I
always thought that Pasolini was portraying capitalism, or rather the
willing acquiescence of people to a 'system' rather than their oppression or
suppression by it...and this is the reason that the film has such a bad
press in many places, it doesn't allow for the 'victims' to be emotionally
played to the viewer as victims and thus refuses the viewer the opt out of
simply decrying what dreadful times they were or 'weren't those fascists
nasty' [and different to us].
 
 
Leopold
 
                -----Original Message-----
                From:   Joe Brennan [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
                Sent:   11 August 1999 19:32
                To:     [log in to unmask]
                Subject:        Re: Pound and Passolini
 
 
 
                unfortunately, I can't think of a context in which Leopold's
questioning my
                having seen the film that isn't insulting.
 
                joe brennan....