\n\tSlavoj \u017di\u017eek is back. <\/p>\n
\n\tThe Slovenian Marxist philosopher and leftie provocateur, who has become the internet\u2019s most unlikely social media star, returns to cinemas with The Pervert\u2019s Guide to Utopias, the third documentary from director Sophie Fiennes<\/a> \u2014 after\u00a0The Pervert\u2019s Guide to Cinema\u00a0<\/a>(2006) and\u00a0The Pervert\u2019s Guide to Ideology<\/a>\u00a0(2012) \u2014 that seeks to filter \u017di\u017eek\u2019s thinking through the lens of cinema.<\/p>\n \n\tIn her new documentary, which will have its world premiere in Venice on Sept. 7, Fiennes again stages \u017di\u017eek in re-creations of scenes from the films and TV series being discussed, dropping the philosopher into the cinematic frame, so to speak. He lies in a bathtub in a wedding dress, like Kirsten Dunst, to discusses Lars von Trier\u2019s apocalyptic drama Melancholia (2011). Debates the dystopian vision of Hulu\u2019s A Handmaid\u2019s Tale, lying flat on his back on a bed, draped in a red robe.<\/p>\n \n\t\u017di\u017eek\u2019s hot takes and critical interpretations, on cinema and philosophy, are often counter-intuitive and seemingly contradictory, but never boring. The hidden message behind James McTeigue\u2019s V for Vendetta (2006), he opines in The Pervert\u2019s Guide to Utopias, is not a triumphant one of the masses rebelling against an authoritarian state. Rather the film\u2019s subtext suggest a darker premise: that the fascists need the rebels and the rebels need the fascists to justify each other\u2019s existence.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cOur duty is to see things the way they are. And here, cinema helps us,\u201d says \u017di\u017eek in the first trailer for The Pervert\u2019s Guide to Utopias (see below). \u201cBecause I think that the role of Hollywood, or cinema in general, was always to bring out the utopian presuppositions, which we don\u2019t perceive in our ordinary, daily lives. If aliens were to visit our earth, and by chance, ask me, \u2018explain us what humanity is about.\u2019 I would not tell them \u2018go around and look\u2019 I would tell them \u2018look these movies and you will understand us.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tThe Pervert\u2019s Guide to Utopias\u00a0is produced by Keeper Pictures, P Guide, SPOK Films, The Film Kitchen, and Mattima Films. Shani Hinto is handling world sales.<\/p>\n \n\tCheck out the exclusive trailer for The Pervert\u2019s Guide to Utopias below. <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Slavoj \u017di\u017eek is back. The Slovenian Marxist philosopher and leftie provocateur, who has become the internet\u2019s most unlikely…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":834248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[10167,88,2091,206,353111,353112,353113,332222],"class_list":["post-834247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-documentaries","tag-entertainment","tag-international","tag-movies","tag-slavoj-zizek","tag-sophie-fiennes","tag-the-perverts-guide-to-utopias","tag-venice-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=834247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/834248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}