"Oh! My god, what am I doing?"This should come as a surprise to most, and as an embarrassment to me.
The embarrassment is admitting that I like Slavoj Zizek this much. Enough that I would be willing to leave off many deserving films (or fee-lems, as Zizek would say) in order to put this documentary here. The truth, though, is that this film has grown on me more and more since I first thought of it in this context. In addition to the wonderful commentary from Zizek, there’s the amazing choice by Fiennes to put Zizek inside the scenes he interprets. The moment of the film, undoubtedly, is the Slovenian psychoanalysist attempting to steer a speedboat through the San Francisco bay, declaring, “I am thinking, I want to fuck Mitch!”
If I am accused (and rightfully so) of choosing The Pervert’s Guide as a sneaky way to honor films of the previous decades in this list, than so be it. The ultimate reason this movie is here is because of what Zizek says in part three about modern film: that it is ultimately all about “the problem of film.”
With that, I announce the theme of my entire list, “Film: the Problem of Film.”
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