Pier Paolo Pasolini: Power is always a codifier and ritual. Without wanting to, I found myself representing in this film both the proper middle-class life with its parlors, its tea, its double-breasted blazers, and the Nazi ceremony in all of its macabre solemnity, gloomy and wretched, because power is ritual and a codifier. But that which ritualizes which codifies is always nothingness, pure will, that is, its own anarchy.