FREE ESSAY ON PASSOLINI

PASSOLINI

Passolini's movie included short tales displaying the irony and humor that take place in
Italian religious communities. For example, one tale was about a convent filled with
devoted nuns that decided to hire what thought was a poor, deaf, mute man. They hired
this man as the gardener for their convent. Shortly after he began working as the
gardener, two young nuns brought him to an old shed in the garden and had sex with him.
Another nun saw this and decided to have sex with him also. However, when he had finished
having an orgasm, she hadn't, and asked him to continue making love to her. As a result,
the gardener snapped at her and told her how he couldn't keep up with all of the nuns
wanting to have sex with him. The nun, stunned to see that the man could speak and hear
ran to the convent and began telling all of the women how it was a miracle. The runs came
rushing in caressing and touching the poor gardener. 
Passolini shows irony in the religious aspect because nuns are perceived to be women
devoted to God and live a "non-promiscuous" life, which was not what they were doing.
They weren't supposed to think about men or sex. The tale was quite humorous because, the
gardener, hoping to find a job, was surprised to see how these nuns who are portrayed as
very religious, devoting figures to God in the community were just the opposite of what
everyone believed them to be. 
In this aspect, his work is very similar to that of Boccaccio's in that they question and
criticize the religion using humor, wit, and irony.