It’s a fascinating chapter of the movie, but also, formally at odds with everything that’s come before it, so it may wind up being any given viewer’s favorite or least favorite chapter, depending on how well the ambling post-modernism of the build-up has sat thus far. It’s an hour-long documentary about a songbird competition, the center of many men’s lives.
“The Inebriating Chorus of the Chaffinches” is the last story Scheherazade tells. She has one more tale to the tell the king. All parts of the story deal with love, or actually I should say lust, ending in sex.īut Scheherazade knows this peace cannot last, and after telling Paddleman that he’s far too dumb to settle down with (but, she hopefully tells him, “ you are somewhat radiant”) she leaves the archipelago. With 'Arabian Nights' Pasolini combines a couple of stories from the book 'A Thousand and One Nights' into one story, although the film itself still feels very episodic. His last of course is 'Salo, or 120 Days of Sodom', the controversial first film from his 'trilogy of death'. 'Il Fiore delle mille e una notte', or 'Arabian Nights', is Pier Paolo Pasolini's final film from his 'trilogy of life' and his second to last film in general. Various other travelers who recount their own tragic and romantic experiences include stories of a young man who becomes enraptured by a mysterious woman on his wedding day, and a man who is determined to free a woman from a demon. After his foolish error causes their separation, he travels in search of her. In this film inspired by the ancient erotic and mysterious tales of Mid-West Asia, the main story concerns an innocent young man who comes to fall in love with a slave who selected him as her master.
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