Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom/YMMV

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  • Critical Dissonance: To the more intellectual viewers, Salò is either a powerful art film about fascism... or simply a disgusting film.
  • Darkness-Induced Audience Apathy: But to the average viewer, Salò is pretty much only a disgusting film.
  • Ho Yay: The four libertines and some of the male victims and guards.
  • Les Yay: Two of the girls.
  • Nausea Fuel: Practically the entire movie.
  • Squick: The shit-eating scenes in the Circle of Shit.
  • Tear Jerker: 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.
  • Vindicated by History: For many artists and critics, Salò is one of the bravest, most powerful works of art ever made: it has featured in lists like Village Voice's 100 Films of the 20th Century and it was admired by the likes of Martin Scorsese, Michael Haneke and Roger Ebert.
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