FREE ON CINEGEEK.DE Pier Paolo Pasolini - Porcile


Teorema is the most popular Pasolini film with us and Porcile continues Teorema. A nice Monday evening television program!

I don't understand Porcile. Best I sleep on it for a night and watch it again tomorrow. Then I can still decide if Porcile is: a) one of Pasolini's greatest films - or b) a total failure. Pasolini, this strange filmmaker, was a Freudian and Marxist, but that didn't stop him from making a brilliant film about the life of Jesus Christ. Some even claim that Pasolini's other films are also about Jesus. However, this is not a dogmatic opinion, because Pasolini films are provocative and often obscene. Less erotic, by the way. When we organized Pasolini nights in our old cinema (you know, one of those mattress cinemas), the audience would puff and giggle. But was that their honest reaction or just an act of defense? Pasolini films can be considered a turning point. Films that no one was prepared for and that changed everything back then, in the late 60s. Just the kind of film you don't think about too much! Over the next few days, if one or two thoughts about Porcile come to your mind, remember: every film deserves to be seen as a whole. They are not made to be analyzed! Porcile had the German title "Der Schweinestall". That fits. It tells the story of a hermit. Somewhere in a strangely remote desert, he becomes the leader of a cannibalistic horde. Beyond time. Meanwhile, the son of a German entrepreneur has a sodomitic love of pigs. So the father is blackmailed by a Nazi criminal. Again and again it's been written that Porcile begins where "Teorema" ends. In the desert. In the promised land. Where it all began. And at the desert's edge you can see civilization. But what does he really find there at the edge of the desert? Soldiers. Germans: The worst kind of capitalism. You'll notice that Pasolini was a man of the last century. An intellectual, a philosopher, a writer too. An open-minded gay man who made caustic comments about modern society. In 1975 he was beaten to death, when he had just finished his last film "Sado"...