A hilarious introduction, using as examples some of the best films ever made, to some of Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst Slavoj Žižek's most exciting ideas on personal subjectivity, fantasy and reality, desire and sexuality.
Direction
Fiennes drops Žižek directly into movie sets — genius framing device
Production
Recreated film scenes let philosopher literally inhabit his theories
Writing
Žižek's tangents somehow always land — chaotic brilliance
Director
Sophie Fiennes
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Žižek wrote all his segments in two weeks while procrastinating on other deadlines — the chaos is authentic.
This cemented Žižek as the 'Elvis of cultural theory' — a philosopher who could actually sell DVDs in the 2000s.
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