Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922–1975) was an Italian film director, poet, writer and intellectual known for provocative films and essays that addressed sexuality, power and marginality.

Born 1922 in Bologna; active as a writer and filmmaker from the 1950s until his death in 1975. Noted for neorealist origins, the Trilogy of Life, and the controversial film Salò; his violent death in 1975 is a documented fact.

Pasolini is presented as a provocative Italian auteur whose work interrogates power, sexuality and the marginalised. Reviews praise his neorealist roots and later audacious experiments (the Trilogy of Life and Salò). His films are described as poetic, political and intentionally shocking.

For:cinephiles, film students, readers interested in political and provocative art

 Tolerance, know this, is only and always purely nominal. I don’t know a single example or case of real tolerance. And this is because a "real tolerance" would be a contradiction in terms. The fact that one "tolerates" someone is the same as "condemning" them. Tolerance is indeed a more refined form of condemnation. In fact, the "tolerated" - let's say the black person we have taken as an example - is told to do whatever he wants, that he has the full right to follow his nature, that being a minority does not mean inferiority at all, etc., etc. But his "diversity" - or rather his "fault of being different" - remains identical both to those who have decided to tolerate it and to those who have decided to condemn it. No majority will ever be able to abolish from their consciousness the "diversity" of minorities. It will always, eternally, fatally be present.

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 “The world belongs to those who have teeth.”

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 We are all a bit victims and a bit executioners

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