MentalPolyphonics
Smash monogamy.
Slavoj Žižek, psychoanalyst and philosopher, wrote, stars, and narrates this film, wherein several popular movies (mostly Hitchcock and Lynch but also Disney, Lucas, Coppola, Tarkovsky, and more) are deconstructed:
Theories include: an examination of implicit liminal spaces, like why bathrooms figure prominently in many horror films; a discussion of fantasy and narrative in male and female sexuality, why romance films don’t show sex and porno films don’t show romance; and how it might be our true selves that need just a thin veneer of fiction to come raging through — maybe movies and games don’t make people violent, maybe people are inherently violent and the distancing, fictionalizing, effect of a cinema screen or a game controller gives social permission to our otherwise mediated impulses.
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