Critical writing

This is a quote from Pasolini talking about his film Teorema:

 “I leave it to the spectator…is the visitor God or is he the devil? The important thing is that he is sacred, a supernatural being. He is something from beyond.”

This is a good example of Pasolini's interest in what ifs?, potentials and alternate worlds.

Below are a few interesting quotes from the book 'The Passion of Pier Paolo Pasolini' by Sam Rohdie, to help us try and get inside Pasolinis head and his way of thinking. It all seems to conclude that Pasolini likes this element of ambiguity.  

 “Pasolini’s dream language tended towards the paranoid.”

 “So powerful was the dream that it managed to overcome reality. But by being conscious of itself as dream, it was conscious of its own unreality, hence vulnerability.”

 “..he moved to myth, to never-never lands, lands of dreams, the Faraway”

A reminder of one idea we've been discussing that relates to all the above, is rather than having a really structured literal storyline we could perhaps go down the path of creating something much more abstracted and metaphorical.