The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

Slavoj wields a powerful tool called psychoanalysis, and through this tool he is able to open dark and unsymbolized spaces behind the image and reveal that the whole of cinema is actually one big shock wave from the toilet bowl... which, by the way, is the greatest compliment that the Slovak enfant terrible and the most dangerous philosopher of the West can give it. An extraordinarily entertaining, stimulating and atmospheric documentary that describes the basic Slovenian ailments (eclecticism, the popularity of pitching an idea and its chatting, as well as the occasional excessive speculation), but otherwise one cannot break away from it... that is assuming that names like Lacan or Freud inspire something other than resistance within you. (31/01/2011)