Director and Screenwriter: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Synopsis:
The director Pier Paolo Pasolini Italy covers the microphone in hand sixty people asking questions about sex.
Comment:
curious and bold in this documentary, Pasolini asks questions about all areas of sexuality to people of all ages and backgrounds.
Children, housewives, working women, the elderly, bourgeois the city and farmers talk about virginity, the emancipation of women, prostitution or homosexuality. The director shows the differences between northern Italy and southern and greater relative freedom enjoyed by women working in the north on the Sicilian peasant, who can not go outside unless it is accompanied by her father or brother. Pasolini also introduces controversies remain valid today, such as prostitution, and others that fortunately have become outdated, like divorce, a novelty for Italy at the time, should be legal or not, the interviewer, far of neutrality, reveals his views against the legalization of brothels or in favor of divorce. Male homosexuality is seen as a big taboo for all respondents and women remain invisible, there is not even the slightest reference to it, Pasolini is, nevertheless, modest and not openly discussed the issue of contraceptive use, limited to talk generally about sexual freedom, especially for women, and not forgetting that sex is not a world apart and freedom in this area is closely linked to economic independence and the enjoyment of rights in other aspects of life . The questions to each other are interspersed with views and presentations of intellectual friends of the director, who, true to his Marxist ideas, not stop attacking, but a resounding not angry, capitalism and bourgeois morality. Survey love
not purport to be rigorous or statistical value, even provides data on the majority of the interviewees responses. Furthermore, most of them respond without any intimacy in front of his family, friends and a large crowd of onlookers at a time when people would be much less used to the cameras. This informality does not detract, especially once the weather, a great value as a testimony of how the issue was addressed in the 60's erotic, just a few years before the great sexual revolution. Top Scenes:
- One of the girls interviewed said their displeasure with the hypothetical idea of \u200b\u200bhaving a gay son and his desire for their children to be "normal" asking for understanding and empathy Pasolini and ignoring no doubt it's homosexuality.
Anecdotes:
- The film did not get released in Spain in his day, probably for reasons of censorship. Survey love is the title given to it in some of his passes on television.
- Apparently the idea came from the documentary when Pasolini traveled Italy in search of locations and extras for his famous adaptation of the Gospel of Matthew.
About the director:
Pier Paolo Pasolini or (Bologna 1922 - Rome 1975) was not only one of the leading filmmakers 
Italian, but a major poet, philologist and character cultural life of their country. He begins his film career with titles influenced by neorealism, as Accatone (1961) and Mamma Roma (1962), before going to work where social criticism and Marxist claims are made so más elaborada y más abstracta, como Pajaritos y pajarracos (1966) o Teorema (1968), películas que alterna con la adaptación de clásicos literarios, incluyendo el mismísimo Evangelio según San Mateo (1964), su obra más célebre. Gran polemista, la franqueza con la que hablaba tanto de sus ideas de izquierdas como de su homosexualidad lo convirtió en enemigo público número uno para los grupos conservadores italianos, hasta el punto de que se especula con la posibilidad de que alguna mano negra estuviera detrás de su asesinato, que conmocionó a la ya de por sí convulsionada Italia de los 70. El sexo se expone de forma naturalista, con gran vitality not without a certain coarseness, in his famous trilogy of life, formed by The Decameron (1971), The Canterbury Tales (1972) and The Thousand and One Nights (1974).
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