Country:Italy

Director:Pier Paolo Pasolini

Program:Parallel Pathways

Summary:

A devestating example of parallel narrativity in which two seemingly allegorical stories are told: In an undeterminated past, a young cannibal, having killed his own father, is condemned to be torn to pieces by some wild beasts while, in the second story, Julius, the young son of a post-war German industrialist, is on the way to lie down with his farm's pigs, because he doesn't like human relationships. This film was to mark Pasolini’s shift toward more brutal political subjects combined with a glacial detachment and eerie morbidity.