The Pervert's Guide To Ideology (2013)
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Cultural theorist superstar Slavoj iek re-teams with director Sophie Fiennes (The Pervert's Guide to Cinema) for another wildly entertaining romp through the crossroads of cinema and philosophy. With infectious zeal and a voracious appetite for popular culture, iek literally goes inside some truly epochal movies, all the better to explore and expose how they reinforce prevailing ideologies. As the ideology that undergirds our cinematic fantasies is revealed, striking associations emerge: What
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It's exhilarating, even exhausting stuff, though Fiennes lightens the weight of iek's dense discourse with a welcome scattering of sight gags.
Top CriticSlavoj iek manages to explain some of Lacanian psychoanalysis's most inscrutable notions with disarming clarity and infectious urgency.
When not dressing up in hilarious costumes, he advises audiences to become atheists via New Testament Christianity. Is he making this stuff up? I fear so.
Pay proper attention and it becomes clear that, for all the oddness of his delivery, Zizek makes a great deal of sense.
iek's flights of fancy are sometimes brilliant and sometimes implausible, but they are always airborne to some degree.
Slavoj iek returns to play yet more intellectual hopscotch with classic movies.
Slavoj Zizek psychoanalyses cinema and society in this engaging, interesting and spirited documentary.
There are those who find iek a delight; but well before the two-hour mark, one feels he has delighted us long enough.
I'm not sure if the Zizek thoughts are an aid to illuminating the Zizek-chosen movies, or vice versa. But it is rich fun and collectably eccentric.
Occasionally bonkers but kinda brilliant with it, there's plenty here to thrill cineastes and fanboys alike.
The motormouthed Zizek serves up an intellectually provocative psychoanalytical dissection of Hollywood movies.
At 150 minutes, the relentlessness nature of this gabfest may prove too daunting for some. But Fiennes and Zizek ultimately present a giddy and grand dissection of society and just how little we understand it.
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