The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

  • Documentary
10/6/2006
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A hilarious introduction, using as examples some of the best films ever made, to some of Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst Slavoj Žižek's most exciting ideas on personal subjectivity, fantasy and reality, desire and sexuality.

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  • deepkino

    The Pervert's Guide to Cinema: A Lacanian Laughter!

    Slavoj Žižeks The Pervert's Guide to Cinema isn't a film review; it's a wild, intellectual odyssey into the ideological and unconscious fantasies that lie beneath the surface of cinema. Žižek, inhabits the very cinematic spaces he is dissecting, from the toilet in The Matrix to the couch from A Clockwork Orange, to deliver a masterclass in Lacanian psychoanalysis. He views films not as stories but as reflections of our deepest desires and ideological traps, arguing for instance, that the true perversion of The Matrix is not the red or blue pill, but the "big Other"the ideological frame that governs our every move.

    What makes this dense theoretical exercise accessible and wildly enter...

    September 18, 2025

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