What can we learn from a provocative film aimed to challenge the audience’s perception on sex and social orders? Leslie Tong PO ’29 delved into the film “Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom” on its central theme of moral deprivation in a modern society. With the humanization of every prevalent feature that constructs a society, we humans embarked on a suspiciously voluntary journey in internalizing disciplines that enforced morality on our conscious behaviors. The result is obvious — our unconscious rejection and avoidance in facing our imperfect desires.
