Biography Of Pier Paolo Pasolini

Pier Paolo Pasolini was one of the most important Italian writers and film directors of the 20th century, both his works Literary and cinematographic films were highly controversial, which brought him endless criticism in addition to the social disapproval.

Pier Paolo Pasolini was born in Bologna, Italy on March 5, 1922, the son of the soldier, Carlo Alberto Pasolini and Susanna Colussi, a basic education teacher, three years later his brother was born Guido.
Pasolini began to write at the age of seven, some time later he studied letters at the University of Bologna where he published some of his writings for the first time, little He later enlisted in the army of his country actively participating in the battlefields during World War II, where he was captured by the Germans and achieved escape, during this time his brother was murdered at the hands of the Garibaldians, when he returned to Italy he joined the Italian Communist Party, which, he would leave for two more years late.
Around 1945, he graduated with the thesis Anthology of Pascolinian poetry (Introduction and comments) and fixed his residence in Friuli, where he found a job as a teacher at a lower secondary school.

His literary work was composed of: Poetry, Narrative, Criticism and Theater Texts; Through his works Pasolini expressed his political, civil and artistic commitment with the objective of The main one is to denounce and contrast the cultural homologation and the anthropological change of the Italians. In the pursuit of his goals, Pasolini was a victim of discrimination, he was arrested, persecuted, prosecuted and even tried for more than two decades, Due, not only, to his controversial artistic creations, but also, because of his homosexuality, despite this, the poet and director continued with his work adopting different social, cultural and political ideologies that were not always well accepted, but that was not why he stopped expressing and sharing them, and that is why that great spirit of freedom and decision that the world, to this day can enjoy the works of this great representative of literary art and film.
As a director he began in 1961 creating a second neorealism, exploring the aspects of daily life, in a tone close to that of the Commedia dell'arte, focusing its gaze on the marginal characters, crime and poverty that have swept Italy since the post-war period, and establishing a narrative and visual style in which pathos and irony prevail over the thick and sometimes sordid humor of his stories.
Of all Pasolini's artistic creations, perhaps the most controversial of all is Salò or the 120 days of Sodom in which Pier Paolo adopts a self-critical tone towards some passages of his previous work and in which he adapts the Marquis de Sade with all crudeness, blurring the conventional and cinematographic boundaries that enclose eroticism, pornography, expression, sadism, provocation and human degradation; As a result of this last film and in circumstances that have not yet been fully clarified, Pasolini was assassinated in the early hours of the 1st to the 2nd of November 1975 at the hands of a marginal young man, who rammed him with Pasolini's own car, in the popular spa of Ostia. During the first investigations, the alleged murderer's statements that he had killed him due to the fact that the director proposed to have sex, they did not convince everyone and the theories that certain people Powerful government officials wished the director dead because of the criticism he continually made through his movies, his books, and his political speeches; Recently, in April 2005, new statements by the alleged murderer, who assured that it was actually three young men who took Pasolini's life that fateful night in November 1975, caused a wide sector of the political and cultural environment of Italy to request the reopening of the case to clarify the crime.