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* TearJerker: The entire situation in respect to the teenagers, really, but a special mention goes to the blonde girl whose mother was murdered while trying to save her.
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* TearJerker: The entire situation in respect to the teenagers, really, but a special mention goes to Renata, the blonde girl whose mother was murdered while trying to save her.
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* VindicatedByHistory: For many artists and critics, ''Salo'' is one of the bravest, most powerful works of art ever made. It has been featured in lists like ''Village Voice's 100 Films of the 20th Century'' and is even admired by the likes of Creator/MartinScorsese, Creator/MichaelHaneke, and Creator/RogerEbert.
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* VindicatedByHistory: For many artists and critics, ''Salo'' is one of the bravest, most powerful works of art ever made. It has been featured in lists like ''Village Voice's 100 Films of the 20th Century'' and is even admired by the likes of Creator/MartinScorsese, Creator/MichaelHaneke, Creator/MartinScorsese and Creator/RogerEbert.Creator/MichaelHaneke.
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* Anvillicious: Fascist regimes are, at their core, a bunch of nationalistic bluster that conceals an [[DystopiaJustifiesTheMeans uglier truth]]: most dictators and high-ranking personnel are hypocritical sick fucks who don't give a shit about any of what they say and really just get their rocks off at crushing people underfoot and making them suffer because EvilFeelsGood while ironically railing against perceived "degenerates".
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* Anvillicious: {{Anvilicious}}: Fascist regimes are, at their core, a bunch of nationalistic bluster that conceals an [[DystopiaJustifiesTheMeans uglier truth]]: most dictators and high-ranking personnel are hypocritical sick fucks who don't give a shit about any of what they say and really just get their rocks off at crushing people underfoot and making them suffer because EvilFeelsGood while ironically railing against perceived "degenerates".
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* Anvillicious: Fascist regimes are, at their core, a bunch of nationalistic bluster that conceals an [[DystopiaJustifiesTheMeans uglier truth]]: most dictators and high-ranking personnel are hypocritical sick fucks who don't give a shit about any of what they say and really just get their rocks off at crushing people underfoot and making them suffer because EvilFeelsGood while ironically railing against perceived "degenerates".
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I fully understand why nobody wants to talk about the movie, but SOME elaboration is needed.
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* NightmareFuel: The entire film could count as such, and it needs no explanation why.
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* NightmareFuel: The Given the entire plot revolves around the graphic physical and sexual torture of teenagers, the entire film could count as such, and it needs no explanation why.such.
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* {{Squick}}: Goddamn ''everything''. What do you expect from a Creator/MarquisDeSade adaptation?
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* {{Squick}}: Goddamn ''everything''.The scenes dedicated to [[spoiler:literal shit-eating]] are the most infamous examples, though given the whole plot involves sexually tormenting minors, the entire movie is pretty squicky. What do you expect from a Creator/MarquisDeSade adaptation?
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* SignatureScene: Again, the [[spoiler:shit-eating scene]].
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** Again, the [[spoiler:shit-eating scene]].
** Again, the [[spoiler:shit-eating scene]].
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* {{Squick}}: Goddamn ''everything''. What do you expect from a Creator/MarquisDeSade adaptation?
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Trope being dewicked.
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* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: Fascist regimes are, at their core, a bunch of nationalistic bluster that conceals an [[DystopiaJustifiesTheMeans uglier truth]]: most dictators and high-ranking personnel are hypocritical sick fucks who don't give a shit about any of what they say and really just get their rocks off at crushing people underfoot and making them suffer because EvilFeelsGood while ironically railing against perceived "degenerates".
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* OvershadowedByControversy: The film is a SettingUpdate of a book written by the notorious Creator/MarquisDeSade, concerns a quartet of wealthy fascists who purchase a group of teenagers as sex slaves, subject them to every indignity imaginable [[spoiler:(in the film's most infamous scene, the victims are force-fed their captors' feces)]], before finally slaughtering them once they get bored. Given its extreme content, it has naturally been dogged by controversy since its premiere. The movie is commonly brought up in debates on where the lines of free speech should be drawn, several countries have banned it, even democracies such as Australia, and it is in general impossible to bring up without getting into a discussion over whether it's a heartwrenching artistic statement about the suffering of the people in a totalitarian society or brainless, tasteless schlock that the director slapped a moral onto just to avoid coming off as a complete degenerate.
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* CrossesTheLineTwice: If there was ever a line so to speak of.
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* CriticalDissonance: To the average viewer, Salo is a disgusting film, if they have heard or seen it. But for those who avert SmallReferencePools and recognize the GeniusBonus, this is either a searing, powerful work of art about violence and power... or still pointlessly disgusting.
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* CriticalDissonance: To the average viewer, Salo ''Salo'' is a disgusting film, if they have heard or seen it. But for those who avert SmallReferencePools and recognize the GeniusBonus, this is either a searing, powerful work of art about violence and power... or still pointlessly disgusting.
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* TheWoobie:
** The victims. While some of them lose sympathy points in the scene where they rat each other out to escape punishment, they are all still a bunch of kids trapped in an unbearable situation with no hope of escape. Most of the adults around them are abusing them and subjecting them to unimaginable indignities for their sick pleasure and make it abundantly clear they will painfully kill the victims at any sign of rebellion.
** The libertines' daughters, who are subjected to the same treatment as the victims, if not worse. It's strongly implied all of them have been abused by their fathers since childhood (the Duke and the President explicitly admit to raping theirs) and they seem resigned to their fates. All are cruelly killed along with many of the victims at the end.
** The victims. While some of them lose sympathy points in the scene where they rat each other out to escape punishment, they are all still a bunch of kids trapped in an unbearable situation with no hope of escape. Most of the adults around them are abusing them and subjecting them to unimaginable indignities for their sick pleasure and make it abundantly clear they will painfully kill the victims at any sign of rebellion.
** The libertines' daughters, who are subjected to the same treatment as the victims, if not worse. It's strongly implied all of them have been abused by their fathers since childhood (the Duke and the President explicitly admit to raping theirs) and they seem resigned to their fates. All are cruelly killed along with many of the victims at the end.
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* SoBleakItsBoring: Like saying the grass is green, then again it [[IntendedAudienceReaction was probably invoked by the director]].
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* TooBleakStoppedCaring: Like saying the grass is green, then again it [[IntendedAudienceReaction was probably invoked by the director]].
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YMMV tropes cannot be played with.
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* TookTheBadFilmSeriously: Inverted. Actress Hélène Surgère said that the mood on the set was actually rather jovial. The presence of teenagers, many of whom had never acted before, resulted in a lighthearted production process, including cast members playing practical jokes on each other. She added that the film was truly made in the editing room and that the filmmakers didn't realize how grim the film really was until it was completed.
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* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: Like saying the grass is green, then again it [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation was probably invoked by the director]].
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* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: Fascist regimes are, at their core, a bunch of nationalistic bluster that conceals an [[DystopiaJustifiesTheMeans uglier truth]]: most dictators and high-ranking personnel are hypocritical sick fucks who don't give a shit about any of what they say and really just get their rocks off at crushing people underfoot and making them suffer because EvilFeelsGood.EvilFeelsGood while ironically railing against perceived "degenerates".
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* NightmareFuel: The entire film could count as such, and it needs no explanation why.
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