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“Though the relentless objectification of the frolicking bodies looks forward to the cool Sadean ferocity of Salo, the style is light, casual, frivolous—it doesn't have the intensity or obsessiveness of pornography, yet it doesn't seem to have any other point.”
Dave Kehr1
“Pasolini’s Arabian Nights embodies all the old colonialist projections about the imagined sexuality of the Arabs. It is yet another example of the West's need to posit non-European peoples as the dark, mysterious, voluptuous ‘other’. In his films the Third World risks being reduced, at the same time that its sexuality is magnified, to a sexual fetish, a sort of magic potion by which the waning sexual and cultural vitality of the West might be rejuvenated.”
James Roy MacBean2
