Zizek! (2006)

Documentary on Slovenian cultural theorist and advocate of Lacanian psychoanalysis Slavoj Zizek. Zizek is an entertaining guy, he’s smart, he’s funny, he’s contrarian, a likable pessimist. Zizek would probably prefer to be known for his theories rather then his slightly outsized personality, but Zizek’s Zizek and you get the whole package. My favorite scene in the film is when he’s analysis his son’s play and finds him “narcissistically amused”, very “precise” in his “destruction”, and even “progressive” as Zizek sights two of his toy’s as a kind of proto-lesbian couple (it’s all in good fun though don’t get the wrong idea, he seems pretty good with his kid, roughly 6 at the time of this documentary). Only about 70 minutes or so long it’s a fun, rather informal portrait of an interesting man and an unusual thinker. Thumbs Up.