Zizek: film reviewer
Catherine Driscoll
catherine.driscoll at adelaide.edu.au
Fri Apr 21 03:25:21 PDT 2000
While I understand why Zizek wants to talk about the ethical paradox 'of
our age' as 'the overlapping of the transgressive and the normal', I don't
think I'm convinced the strength of that statement has anything to do with
his cursory reading of those films.
Isn't the ethical extreme appearing in less mainstream film while 'popular'
film presents the simplification into moral poles only what people
generally expect from these film genres? I wish he'd actually discussed how
the overlapping of the transgressive and the normal is an ethical paradox.
That would have been interesting.
And there are things I don't think are at all clear in this piece -- what
is our age here?, the ref to postmodern art just confused me given that
what he's discussing can't possibly be confined to post 80s culture; and
who is we here -- Bosnian nuns and visitors to the Tate gallery are all 'we'?
Oh well...
Catherine
At 22:10 19/04/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Zizek on David Lynch's The Straight Story and The Talented Mr. Riply:
>
>http://www.britannica.com/bcom/original/article/0,5744,5602,00.html
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