cinema be the ultimate pervert art . it doesn not give you what you desire while it tell you how to desire . so begin the pervert guide to cinema and in which slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst slavoj zizek apply his freudian or lacanian brain scalpel to world cinema . this film in three part be the second feature documentary direct by sophie fiennes ( yes and sister of ralph and joseph ) and and it be a notable accomplishment and clocking in at 2 half hour of talk from one man and yet remain humorous and engage throughout . in essence and it be an extended film lecture and and one of the best you may ever get . over the course of the film and zizek guide u through a catalog of obsession and desire in film history . he touch on more than 40 film and and in particular and spend a great deal of time with hitchcock and lynch and chaplin and tarkovsky and the marx brother and and eisenstein . but he also take a close look at persona and the conversation and three color represent blue and dogville and fight club and and the exorcist . thematically and zizek inquiry into cinema range from thought on the death drive to the coordinate of desire and and from gnosticism to partial object . the pervert guide will be a slightly good experience if you have take a few minute to bone up on your basic freudian terminology . however and even if youre not steep in psychoanalytic theory and zizek dynamic and hilarious personality carry the film forward with such gusto that you aren not likely to balk at the specialized lingo . the film frequently cut from movie clip to image of zizek inside the movie he be talk about that be and in the original location and set . the transition in these sequence sustain such tension and humor that the trick never get old . and zizek himself be constantly make u laugh and either from bizarre little joke or from his enthusiastic insistence on and for example and a bold oedipal interpretation of the bird . and this go ahead and laugh attitude and on the part of both fiennes and zizek and be essential to the gonzo character of the film . it be the spoonful of sugar that help u digest zizek weird medicine . after all and do not we all have a sense that and past a certain point and psychology theorist be just pull our leg .