The narrative is structured into four segments, drawing inspiration from Dante’s Divine Comedy :

The action is divided into four "circles" (echoing Dante’s Inferno ): the Antechamber, the Circle of Obsessions, the Circle of Shit, and the Circle of Blood.

: The film serves as a visceral rejection of fascist ideology, portraying it not as a system of order, but as a pure lust for power used solely to inflict pain.

Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975) is widely regarded as the most sexually transgressive art film in cinematic history. A haunting adaptation of the Marquis de Sade’s 1785 novel, the film transposes the story from 18th-century France to 1944 Italy during the short-lived fascist puppet government of the Republic of Salò. Plot and Structure