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The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

Slavoj Zizek examines famous films in a philosophical and a psychoanalytic context.

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Sophie Fiennes

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The Pervert's Guide Collection: The Pervert's Guide to Cinema, The Pervert's Guide to Ideology

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The problem is How do we know what we desire - The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

The problem is How do we know what we desire

But the choice between the blue and the red pill - The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

But the choice between the blue and the red pill

But the choice between the blue and the red pill - The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

But the choice between the blue and the red pill

The first key to horror films is to say - The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

The first key to horror films is to say

The big question about The Birds of course is the stupid obvious one - The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

The big question about The Birds of course is the stupid...

Mrs. Bates? - The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

We do not see Mabuse till the end of the film. - The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

We do not see Mabuse till the end of the film.

And to redeem through Your Son, - The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

And to redeem through Your Son,

Or, since we cannot simply get rid of it, - The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

Or, since we cannot simply get rid of it,

People applaud exactly in the same way as they were applauding Hitler - The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

People applaud exactly in the same way as they were...

The nicest example here for me, I think, - The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

The nicest example here for me, I think,

I think this is what liberation means - The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

I think this is what liberation means

Wider. - The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

Don't you fuckin' look at me. - The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

Don't you fuckin' look at me.

Set up by the father to convince the son of his power - The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

Set up by the father to convince the son of his power

This brings us to our third, and maybe crucial example, - The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

This brings us to our third, and maybe crucial example,

When we spectators are sitting in a movie theatre - The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

When we spectators are sitting in a movie theatre

For example, she has gaps in her memory - The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

For example, she has gaps in her memory

It's relatively easy to get rid of a real person. - The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

It's relatively easy to get rid of a real person.

The d nouement of the story of course is along the lines of the Marx Brothers' joke - The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

The d nouement of the story of course is along the lines of...

And of course we have a perfect name for fantasy realised - The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

And of course we have a perfect name for fantasy realised

So the result of this violence - The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

So the result of this violence

What the film truly is about its focal point - The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

What the film truly is about its focal point

My relationship towards tulips is inherently Lynchian - The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

My relationship towards tulips is inherently Lynchian

We men at least in our standard phallogocentric mode of sexuality - The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

We men at least in our standard phallogocentric mode of...

I can be whatever you want me to be - The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

I can be whatever you want me to be

Pornography is and it is a deeply conservative genre - The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

Pornography is and it is a deeply conservative genre

One cannot here just throw out the dirty water - The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

One cannot here just throw out the dirty water

One cannot here just throw out the dirty water - The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

One cannot here just throw out the dirty water

As if the lesson is, - The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

As if the lesson is,

The function of music here is precisely that of a fetish - The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

The function of music here is precisely that of a fetish

There are no specifically fake emotions because as Freud puts it literally - The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

There are no specifically fake emotions because as Freud...

Cinema as the art of appearances tells us something about reality itself - The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

Cinema as the art of appearances tells us something about...

But her limbs are like that of the monster - The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

But her limbs are like that of the monster

All modern films are ultimately films about - The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

All modern films are ultimately films about

With Von Trier it's not only the problem of belief - The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

With Von Trier it's not only the problem of belief

The mystery is that even if we know that it's only staged that it's a fiction - The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

The mystery is that even if we know that it's only...

It still fascinates us - The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

It still fascinates us

I know very well it's a fake but nonetheless I let myself be emotionally affected - The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

I know very well it's a fake but nonetheless I let...

That's the true horror of this Mystery Man - The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

That's the true horror of this Mystery Man

We know very well some things but we don't really believe in them - The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

We know very well some things but we don't really...

The truly horrible thing is to be immortal - The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

The truly horrible thing is to be immortal

A normal paternal authority is an ordinary man - The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

A normal paternal authority is an ordinary man

This is the most terrorising experience you can imagine - The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

This is the most terrorising experience you can imagine

Joseph Stalin's favorite cinematic genre - The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

Joseph Stalin's favorite cinematic genre

Our fundamental delusion today is not to believe - The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

Our fundamental delusion today is not to believe

Tarkovsky's solution to this tension - The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

Tarkovsky's solution to this tension

Here, I think, Tarkovsky affects us - The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

Here, I think, Tarkovsky affects us

You set a limit you put a certain zone off limit - The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

You set a limit you put a certain zone off limit

What's the archetypal comic situation in Chaplin's films - The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

What's the archetypal comic situation in Chaplin's...

So, he wants to erase himself to get out of the picture. - The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

So, he wants to erase himself to get out of the picture.

Or people don't even note him, take note of him, - The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

Or people don't even note him, take note of him,

The tramp is wrongly identified - The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

The tramp is wrongly identified

He accepts the game, - The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

He accepts the game,

All too often when we love somebody - The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

All too often when we love somebody

The beloved falls out of the frame of the idealised co ordinates - The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

The beloved falls out of the frame of the idealised co...

In order to understand today's world we need cinema literally - The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

In order to understand today's world we need cinema...

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Slavoj Zizek examines famous films in a philosophical and a psychoanalytic context.

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Director: Sophie Fiennes

Writer: Slavoj Zizek

Production: N/A

Genre: documentary

Year: 2006

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ImdbRating: 7.8

BoxOffice: N/A

Released: 16 Jan 2009

Awards: 1 nomination

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The Pervert's Guide Collection: The Pervert's Guide to Cinema, The Pervert's Guide to Ideology

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