The Pervert's Guide to Ideology
2012 · Movie · R · 131 min · ★ 7.3 · 82% critics
This documentary is an energetic, idea-packed tour of how ideology shapes everyday beliefs, using famous movie scenes as examples. Through a fast-moving, lecture-like performance, it connects popular stories and cultural myths to politics, ethics, desire, and the ways people learn what feels “normal.”
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Streaming on Kino Film Collection.
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Details
- Years
- 2012
- Release date
- 2012-11-15
- Language
- English
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 131 min
- Critic score
- 82/100
- TMDB rating
- 7.3/10 (149 votes)
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you like brainy, talk-heavy documentaries that reframe familiar movies through politics and psychology, like The Movies That Made Us; Not for you if you want a traditional narrative or light, easy viewing.
Pros: provocative ideas; playful pop-culture clips; often funny energy | Cons: dense lecture format; hard-to-follow accent; arguments feel stretched
Themes
- cinema on cinema
- philosophy
- pop culture
- psychoanalysis
- ideology
- woman director
- ethics
- cinema history
Cast & crew
Slavoj Žižek
as Self - Host / Philosopher
Directed by Sophie Fiennes