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The Pervert's Guide to Ideology

2012 · 131 min

A dizzying, intellectually playful lecture that bounces between film clips and wild digressions, demanding close attention but rewarding with infectious enthusiasm.

Tagline
We are responsible for our dreams
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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Tone
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • absurdstrength 1 of 3
  • darkstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • media
  • politics
  • identity
  • power
  • art
Places
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • documentary
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
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Scales, 0 to 10
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Action1
Horror1
Humour6
Realism6
Romance1
Tension2
Darkness4
Complexity9
Emotional weight5

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Genres
documentary
Directed by
Sophie Fiennes
Written by
Slavoj Žižek
Starring
Slavoj Žižek
Music
Magnus Fiennes
Cinematography
Remko Schnorr
Runtime
131 min
Country
Ireland, United Kingdom
Languages
Arabic, Czech, English, German, Norwegian, Russian, Spanish

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