FREE ON VIMEO The Pervert's Guide To Cinema

FREE ON VIMEO  Slavoj Zizek crosses Bodega Bay on a motorboat. The result is the Pervert's Guide To Cinema (great title, right?) - the most shameless, entertaining and - yes! - The most enjoyable film about cinema. Enjoyable? Yes! No story is told. The focus is on a character. And what a story! Slavoj Zizek or simply Zizek, a Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst, a confused Freudian, a madman. A character who seems to have sprung from an Ed-Wood film and - believe it or not - just the right person for the job! Zizek, the narrator, talks and talks and talks and talks and talks. He does a great job of talking about movies (I have to know, because my job as a video store is staring and talking about movies). Like a 150-minute free association. He touches the biggest films, seemingly superficially, and always ends up with Hitchcock. One picture flows into the next. One idea leads to the next. The genre "films about films" is blown up. Of course it's about appreciation. But The Pervert's Guide To Cinema is so much more profound! It starts with a series of ink stains, then Harpo Marx is psychoanalyzed. Is Harpo both innocent and evil? Or simply immoral and thus beyond good & evil? Whoever has read the psychogram about the Ducks by Grobian Gans knows what he is getting into! Zizek's central thesis: The powers that have created the world of "reality" are finite. The world of unfinished evolution. We are in a kind of working state. Not finished. And this is where cinema appears! It comes closest to our own subconscious and can therefore break out of our reality. Films offer a "phantasmatic space" (Zizek) - or something similar. Desire, sex, horror and countless other constructs can be captured with it. There is always and everywhere a third imaginary element. For example, in sex: not only my partner and I, but this third element, which is always in the room. Or something similar. For example Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman in Eyes Wide Shut. He thinks it's beautiful, but it's just a projection of his idea of "woman". And he doesn't know anything about her, so he can neither react jealously nor feel threatened when someone else desires her. Take the test. First watch Zizekt and then meet up with friends at the Fitzcarraldo film art bar at the counter, for example, to talk about films. Every single film will remind you of Zizek, no matter if you follow him or not! Whether you agree with him or not! Can a film make a difference?