Film Review: The Pervert's Guide To Ideology (15), (U.K./Ireland 2012) (Director: Sophie Fiennes), Friday 04.10.2013 1900, The Cameo Cinema, Screen Two, Edinburgh

This is from a preview screening.
The film is not properly released until 18.10.2013.

This is a audio-visual context for the oratory of charismatic Slovakian Philosopher & Psychologist Slavoj Zizek. The director and Zizek had previously made 'The Pervert's Guide To Cinema' (2006) together, and this is a continuation of what they began with that film.

Zizek has a great interest in film, and 'the guide to cinema' utilized his interest in cinema along with his understanding of psychology to present an examination of many revered films through the lenses of Freudian Phychodynamic thinking. This I found enlightening and entertaining.

This new visual tome broadens the reference palate to also take into account actual events and the news coverage of these, such as the London riots of a couple of years ago. This is a very dense analysis of entertainment, news media and marketing/advertising to examine how people globally tend to accept some notion of a broad ideology generated by some authoritarian 'other', and then in time come to feed the ideology assisting its perpetuation.  

This 'film' requires absolute concentration, and is unquestionably stimulating. I suspect the film would reward several viewings as the information is so concentrated, I would find it hard to imagine most punters being able to process all of it on first view.

I don't feel the film to have been as entertaining as 'the guide to cinema', though I suspect it has further reach in terms of relevance.

Rating: 07/10.