Pasolini prossimo nostro

Pier Paolo Pasolini:
[when asked to whom Sal? is for] In general, for everyone, for another me.

Pier Paolo Pasolini:
Every power has its forms of ritual.

Pier Paolo Pasolini:
Therefore, it it is a film not only about power, but about what I call "the anarchy of power". Nothing is more anarchic than power. Power does what it wants and what it wants is totally arbitrary or dictated by its economic reasons which escape common logic.

Pier Paolo Pasolini:
Power is always a codifier and ritual. Without wanting to, I found myself representing in this film both the proper middle-class life with its parlors, its tea, its double-breasted blazers, and the Nazi ceremony in all of its macabre solemnity, gloomy and wretched, because power is ritual and a codifier. But that which ritualizes which codifies is always nothingness, pure will, that is, its own anarchy.