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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