And the execution of a sodomite too poor to bribe his way off the griddle seems drawn out just to make a bad joke about the seller of "griddle cakes" (frittelli) plying his trade in the crowd.
"And Nicholas is branded on the bum, And God bring all of us to Kingdom Come" in Coghill's cheerful popular translation, becomes something more like the execution of Edward II. The Miller's Tale is much grimmer when brought to the screen than Chaucer would have intended. Pasolini's 14th century England lives and dresses more like 16th Century Italy. Chaucer's underlying anti-clerical and pro-love-and-life philosophy may be there, but the substance is very different.
If you watched this movie in order to get a crib of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, you'd be out of luck, and missing the point.
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