For most, whose taste was shaped by Hollywood aesthetics, this mass of course, with all its consequences in the redevelopment of the strategy of value and kind of being, at least for show, Pier Paolo Pasolini will stay a stranger, disgusting, boring, crazy, at best, incomprehensible.
Those who present the name of Italian director, novelist, poet, painter, essayist cyclically mention to banners in the fight for the colorful and smiling planet of a 1000 genders, most likely did not even rub off on his work if they turned off supposedly nobilitating cognition derived from Wikipedia.
Freedom worth the highest price
It is doubtful whether Pier Paolo himself would be on their side, even though he had a unique intuition in exposing falsehood, hypocrisy. Probably, he'd know immediately that establishment Premeditatedly supports and uses a number to fight against society to model them according to their own ideas, allegedly in line with the spirit of time, progress, and yet enslave. Pasolini, although he considered himself a communist, and in his work it is not hard to find traces of Marxist imagination of the world, was first of all a large individualist, for whom like unlimited individual freedom represented the highest value. Even if the price is martyrdom.
Fascism – analogues
When 50 years ago his beastly massacred body was found in the suburbs of Rome, a proposition appeared on the walls of Italian cities with red paint, leaving infiltration that ‘Pasolini = Matteotti’. As if seeing a bright parallel in these 2 half-century cases of abrupt and violent farewell to the surviving world. Giacomo Matteotti (1885-1924), politician of the Italian socialist party, kidnapped and murdered on June 1924, published a book Unmasked fascists: the year of fascist dominationAnd then in the Chamber of Deputies he said a fewer words besides much about Benito Mussolini And his destiny was determined. This death, like the arson of the Reichstag in Germany, gave the fascists an excuse to deal with the opposition. He ended up in prison for the remainder of his life. Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) – historian, journalist, politician, theorist of Italian communism – idol and mentor of Pasolini.
Darkness of the system
Pasolini sketched about in 1975 Petrolio, as if a fresh he described with the work of his life—a mostly powerful thing about the degeneration of man and the darkness of the capitalist system. The second parallel track continued work on the first part Death TrilogyTo become Salo, or 120 days Sodom, movie loosely based on the fresh Marquis Donatiena de Sade. His action moved Pasolini to the Italian Social Republic in the town of Salo, formed by Mussolini, who existed under the protection umbrella of the Nazis from 1943 to 1945 erstwhile fascists lost power in the remaining territory of Italy.
Accusation of Modernity
The last work of Pasolini was actually all said. He besides signed a conviction against himself. Dryer critics did not confuse costumes and insulation at a peculiar time. It was claimed that Salo was a full accusation not so much of black or brown totalitarianism, but of Italian modernity. Pasolini, with a note of provocation characteristic of him, repeatedly expressed the view in the press and in his essays that his homeland in a amazingly soft way from fascist to Christian-democratic. The basis of the past and the present was the same petty spirit. Pasolini powerfully emphasized Evil smoldering in all power, regardless of its colors and shades. Evil, which at any point turns into a destructive flame as appetite grows for another pleasance in feeling its own impunity. That's what the movie's about, too. SaloWhich the manager has never seen.
He's targeting everyone.
For the execution of Pasolini, he was convicted of 17 years old Giuseppe Pelosi, known to the police as a petty thief and a male prostitute. Although he admitted to a gruesome crime, in addition to the justice system, nobody actually believed his version of events. Years later, he changed his evidence respective times, claiming that Pasolini had been massacred by unknown individuals speaking confederate dialect, and he was just a intimidated witness to that event. The media and the street roared. It was spoken alternately, loudly and whispered that it was a contract murder. It is actual that Pasolini actually exposed himself to everything, from the right and left sides of the political scene, to the Church, average environment and extremes. He felt that the overseers at the construction of Hell were the full political class: socialists, chadeci, as well as communists with whom he had sympathized to the end, although he had already been expelled from the communist organization in 1949 as ‘morally worthless individual’When the first charge of a brief affair with an appendix fell.
Back to classics in the lead years
Because of sexual preferences, as well as the allegedly blasphemous nature of many films, he faced trial 36 times. But he was lucky. By gaining fame as an artist, he besides made influential friends, besides among law brothers on the top floors. And although he felt best in the company of representatives of the lumpenproletariat, whose customs he described in excellent novels Ragazi di Vita (Polish translation) Streets) and Una Vita Violaenta (Violent Life) was besides a star in salons where he easy obtained sponsors for subsequent productions. However, the worship became increasingly hateful as he entered as a manager into forbidden areas, showing higher spheres in disgusting scenes in films Theorem (1968) and Pig (1969), which was enthusiastically accepted only in ultra-left environments and among the actual tasters of cinema. For the applause, he didn't return the favor. With large distance he watched the turbulent events of 1968. Malignantly commented on photos of children from bourgeois families who in banners Mao Zedong, Karl Marx, Herbert Marcuse and Che Guevary They win politicians by calling for the demolition of the current system. In general, sunny Italia fell into turbulence in the 1960s, which besides lasted for the next decade. The press and tv didn't gotta nervously look for topics, like the pickle season, erstwhile nothing happened. besides much has happened. They were overtaken in suspicions of who was behind another bomb, bank robbery, another kidnapping, another beating or murder. Fascists, communists, anarchists, or possibly charades corrupted by the mob? Compared to the Italians of those years, present even stormy France presents itself like a Jordanian garden. In an highly dangerous time, Pier Pasolini, as if quieted down, seeking refuge in the shadow of the classics. Controversial Adaptations Decamerone (1970), Canterberan Tales (1971) and A flower of a 1000 and 1 nights (1974) won awards at the most prestigious festivals. It was his Life Trilogy. And then the manager invited everyone to the mentioned Salo...
Conflicts and Unobviousness
Pier Paolo Pasolini was undoubtedly something special. The times in which he lived and created must be taken into account. He spoke openly about his homosexuality, and at that time specified a declaration was not the same as present erstwhile different sexual preferences are accepted in mainstream media and promoted by the school education system. Pasolini, though 1 of the alleged progressives, was an opponent of abortion, which he considered to be the top crime, causing unfriendly murmurings in leftist and artistic environments. On all occasion he pointed out to the Church that it had nothing to do with Christ and his teaching, and this could not have been pleasing in the Catholic country. Finally, as a communist, he actually despised the working class that he had more in common with opportunism than the revolution he had dreamed of. due to the fact that the real revolution according to Pasolini should first take place in the heart of man, so that there is any chance at all to build another, better world.
What would Pasolini say today?
Would individual like Pasolini find himself in these days, erstwhile nothing truly shocks him, and most of them shrug their arms at unpleasant truths? As a homosexual, but being skeptical of the masses as such, would he appear on Parades of Equality with a rainbow flag? What would he think of activists glued to asphalt, painting red in museums, suspecting that they regularly receive a decent penny from financier sharks for their activities? And finally, what would his attitude to the alleged free planet that supports a government building national identity on a criminal ideology? Everyone, effort to answer these questions themselves.
Adam Rosłoniec
