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