To the untrained eye, Salo looks like mindless, extreme exploitation cinema. However, Pasolini was a staunch Marxist and intellectual. He did not make this movie to titillate or entertain; he made it to disgust and educate.
Based on the Marquis de Sade’s 18th-century novel The 120 Days of Sodom and Dante's Divine Comedy , Pasolini recontextualizes the story to 1944–1945 Fascist Italy (the Salò Republic). salo or the 120 days of sodom movie in hindi exclusive