Pasolini and Zurita: Food Torture
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Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Saló film and Zurita, poetry book by chilean author Raúl Zurita, share the depiction of violence over human bodies as an effect of the alliance between Politics and the Law, a very common feature on totalitarian governments. All actions are exerted by means of laws dealing not only with public spaces, but also private ones, including sexual intercourse, feeding, and defecation. Both authors discuss these actions in the context of closed locations. Pasolini turns the palace and its prisoners into a metonymy for all nation, and Zurita links the territories of Latin-American nations to extermination practices.
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