This movie is the first of the Pasolini's "Trilogia della Vita" (trilogy of life) movies. The other two movies are "Il fiore delle mille e una notte" e " "I racconti di Canterbury". With this films Pasolini's want to describe essentially the joy of life, in all shapes, in difficult moments too. He based this movies on three middle-age novels in which there's a main novel that contain other novels. "Decamerone" is a XIV century novel by Giovanni Boccaccio and is the most ancient of the three novel. Teen girls and boys, living in a Tuscany isolated house to escape from the Black Death, tell each other symbolical stories. Some of these stories compose the movie. As the novel was in the past, so the movie was considered a immoral thing in the seventies. The movie had many not-official sequels: erotic B-movies with no relation with the symbolic messages of the first one.
Pasolini essentially was a poet and his movies was image poems. Pasolini could only start the "Trilogia della Morte", the trilogy of death, because he was brutally killed during the post-production of "Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma". So Italians lost one of his greatest artists.
Pasolini essentially was a poet and his movies was image poems. Pasolini could only start the "Trilogia della Morte", the trilogy of death, because he was brutally killed during the post-production of "Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma". So Italians lost one of his greatest artists.