Con e contro Pasolini. Il volto e l'allegoria: Teorema e Porcile
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Keywords
- Teorema (1968) and Porcile (1969) are works that clearly share common elements. They both tell stories that focus on sex and eroticism
- showing faces and non-bodies. These two movies form a diptych that has its epilogue in Salò or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975). They are two philosophical films that
- through allegory
- show a bourgeois world that has lost its cultural roots. A world doomed to lose its way. It is a cinema of logos
- a cinema of modernity
- that raises questions about itself and about other forms of representation. It is a cinema that contains reflections on language
- film
- theatre and painting
- similar to reflections
- with their veiled semiotic perspective
- which Pasolini wrote between 1965 and 1971
- and later collected in Empirismo eretico (Garzanti
- Milano 1972)
