Love Meetings (1964) - Context is King

Love Meetings (1964)Pier Paolo Pasolini sets out to interview Italians about sex, apparently their least favorite thing to talk about in public: he asks children if they know where babies come from; asks old and young women if they support gender equality; asks both sexes if a woman's virginity still matters, what do they think of homosexuality, if divorce should be legal, or if they support the recent abolition of brothels. He interviews blue-collar workers, intellectuals, college students, rural farmers, the bourgeoisie, and every other kind of people, painting a vivid portrait of a rapidly-industrializing Italy, hanging between modernity and tradition — toward both of which Pasolini shows equal distrust.Keine dieser Antworten lässt sich wirklich aus dem Kontext, in dem sie gegeben wurden, herausgelöst betrachten. Dadurch, dass Pasolini fast nur in Gruppen zusammenstehende Menschen befragt, wird gar nicht so viel über individuelle Verhältnisse zu Sexualität, sondern über…