yeah and i get pasolini and his milieu and but at the same time and i feel his decameron be largely overrate and and more than a little disturbing . overrate because the supposed realism he introduce ( mill crowd and crumbling architecture and etc . ) be moot by the absurd and downright goofy way that the character behave . in the pursuit of realism and pasolini utilize many non actor and but their deer in the headlight stare and painfully awkward line delivery give the whole a terribly off kilter and inconsistent feel . and frankly many of the toothless and misshapenly featured people be painful to look at . and pasolini decameron be disturb ( to me at least ) because of the casual and prevalent homosexual content . not because i be prudish or homophobic ( i be neither ) but because the emphasis that pasolini place upon homoerotic image and situation be contrary to the neo realism he otherwise espouses and so it come off a gratuitous and force . one can almost hear him say ooh i have get to stick a cute and naked boy in this scene . at time it seem that pasolini be try to play up the homosexual angle to thumb his nose at critic and and at other time because he enjoy that aspect himself and regardless of what his audience might prefer . the disjointedness of the 9 or 10 different story in pasolini decameron strike me a be a failing of pasolini a a storyteller and rather than be an aspect of neo realism . he seem to get bore with each story and so he wrap them up rather unconvincingly and with little conviction . even the pasolini final line of dialog in the film and which some people seem to find pithy ( why create a work of art when dream about it be so much sweeter . ) to me and it just make me wonder why pasolini would bother make a film if he felt this way . in my opinion and a far well craft film ( and with more homosexual content ) be fellini satyricon . it be also full of bizarre look people and absurd situation and but it succeed because of it pacing and direction and strong storytelling whereas decameron fails by those same element .