maladolescenza have the air of a dark fairy tale and with it child protagonist and forest setting and and the discovery of a castle ruin . yet at it core and the film be essentially an unusual psychosexual study of adolescent . open with a dream sequence employ the not so subtle metaphor of fabrizio wrestle with his menace hound and the film detail his psychological persecution of laura and the girl who have pledge her love to him and and his eventual romance with the equally malicious sylvia . the film psychological complexity do give the film merit and yet there no doubt how unnecessarily exploitive the film be in it depiction of nudity and sex . the film look rely more on it gorgeous location rather than particular cinematographic skill and and there no doubt the film great asset be the creepy and child choir augment soundtrack . with it odd dreamlike quality and the film be at best interesting and yet pale beside louis malle surreal and brilliant black moon from the same era . certainly deserve of the art versus pornography debate and for unlike many ban film and pasolini salo or larry clark ken park for instance and the film be rather unremarkable from an artistic perspective . cinema seem to be gradually lose it ability to shock and so perhaps maladolescenza should be admire for retain that power thirty year after it release . however shock value be the one reason alone the film be memorable . the film do have it defender . yet so do nazism .