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The Pervert's Guide to Ideology
We are responsible for our dreams
2012 · 2h 11m · NOT RATED
Documentary
Directed by
Sophie Fiennes
Overview
A journey into the labyrinthine heart of ideology, which shapes and justifies both collective and personal beliefs and practices: with an infectious zeal and voracious appetite for popular culture, Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst Slavoj Žižek analyzes several of the most important films in the history of cinema to explain how cinematic narrative helps to reinforce prevailing ethics and political ideas.
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Top critics, in their words
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Tomatometer
Rotten
He speaks the truth much of the time, yet all the whipping back of the curtain ends up covering up other realities about movies and life.
Nicolas Rapold, New York Times
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Noam Chomsky has denounced Zizek's theories as nonsensical, and of course they are. But they're frequently engaging, entertaining and stimulating.
Kyle Smith, New York Post
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Though [Zizek's] lecture exceeds two hours, he and director Sophie Fiennes incorporate enough deadpan comedy and clips from famous films to sustain the rhetoric.
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
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In essence, the film is a lecture, but Zizek's associative thinking and understanding of the applicability of psychoanalysis makes it a lecture like no other.
Zachary Wigon, Village Voice
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