We are responsible for our dreams. This is the ultimate lesson of psychoanalysis - and fiction cinema.
Given its two and quarter hour running time and the density of Zizek’s analysis, The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology certainly makes demands on the viewer’s powers of concentration, yet in championing critical thinking it succeeds in making one see both familiar films and wider society anew.
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.
This is film criticism as stand-up comedy or performance art: Zizek plays up to the camera but that doesn't diminish his wit or his insights.
All over the shop, but never less than compelling, if rarely that surprising.
Žižek's flights of fancy are sometimes brilliant and sometimes implausible, but they are always airborne to some degree.
It’s much more fascinating and fun than anything Mark Cousins strains for, and the takedown of Titanic is particularly trenchant and marvellous.
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