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Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom & Who's Minding the Store?

August 11, 2022 • Jake • Season 4 • Episode 3

“Nothing is more anarchic than power”

This quote by one Pier Paolo Pasolini is the guiding theme behind the latest pairing from Felix

We talk two films about the unchecked cruelty of the ruling classes enacted on the less privileged.

Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975) The pro-torture porn classic by Pasolini follows four rich, insane libertines who force eighteen teenagers to participate in a series of torturous, humiliating rituals.

Who’s Minding the Store? (1963) Directed by Frank Tashlin and starring Jerry Lewis as an ambitious working man, WMTS finds our hero unwittingly coerced into a job at a department store owned by the parents of his secretly mega-rich girlfriend. The parents - who despise his humble origins, hatch a scheme to drive a wedge between the couple.

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Artwork: Fred Sanders @fredsanders.creative