Slavoj Zizek on Squid Game, Dune, and James Bond

it is october um it is not only the uh you know the anniversary of the revolution in russia but it's also the the month of halloween movies and horror movies uh the number one movie in america is the latest version of halloween uh we just wanted to wrap the the interview by asking you some of you what are you some of your favorite horror movies i must tell you that i uh i don't like so you know which one here i'm an old-fashioned leftist okay i will give you my report on the class struggle scene in the movie yes we know you love we know you love they live yeah but i didn't want to repeat that i wanted to say that first this accident of alec baldwin you know i met people who met people who knew him and they told me some guys in hollywood that you know don't underestimate him he is not this usual caring liberal who makes a big statement about we only have one earth and so on it shouldn't lose it when there was some 10 15 years ago a strike of all these ordinary people in hollywood those who carry cameras who do the costumes alec bundling did something extraordinary he connected with them and then used all his links to big stars to mobilize them and the strike was a success not many people do this so-called conscious hollywood guys they much prefer this we only have one words war never you know like this pacifism i hate pacifists you know why not because i want war but are we aware that when for example israel said we want peace always want peace and sincerely germans in 43 they wanted peace in europe they can't they get what they want and it's the same on the west bank of course israel i i now comes a more tricky point but correct me i think i even mentioned this in one of my texts for jacob sorry to tell you this i don't like no matland so much because it comes for me too close to what i call class warfare ident warfare identity politics also those precarious workers who don't have a permanent home they also have their way of life don't romanticize them their basic problem is not we want our authentic life their basic problems is they simply do not want to be what they are you know it comes too close to this you know so that one it was so so i beat it like now you will see my fascist side i must say i don't know why but and i'm not kidding there is something dark in me i am afraid to see the movie because i was afraid that i will be disappointed right unless first another critique this squid game or what you know there is something fake in it it is apparently anti-capitalist but it's anti-capitalist like you know capitalism we are in debt blah blah blah it translates it into a game we participate in it like it's very firm how is stateless capitalism reproduces reproduces capitalism it's the same problem i claim as with uh a sweet uh uh handmade stale especially the eevee version you know under the pretext of oh what a horrible thing that society is uh they basically allow you to secretly enjoy all your anti-feminist cliches like all my friends lefties even many women are fascinated oh my god they do this to women you know they there is a great industry today of false anti-establishment anti-capitalism which under the pretext of retreat doesn't allow you to enjoy it okay now the big question uh it's ambiguous the new james bond i don't like it too much but it's interesting and i'm not for this usual solution let's have a black woman you know young who will play no this is just politically correct apparent anti-sexism if they want to do it something else but the one i like it's a little bit perfect but i fall for it again and now you will immediately cut the link probably through the new tune yeah i like it too sorry yeah but you know we are in danger we will soon be attacked for being proto-fascists or whatever and so on and so on i of course many people take it for a portrait of a fake fascist revolution whatever but i like writers and i think frank herbert was the best here who uh better i think that lord of the rings and simone who paint such a wonderful image of a whole universe of a whole new of a whole new society so again my lesson is this very sad one everything that appears anti-capitalist is not necessarily anti-capitalist you know it's the same my eternal joke don't you agree if you look for true capitalism in visual arts or this biennale's every two years and it's big business but as a rule the ideology is and they even admit it we know we are all part of capitalist machine and so on yes they say say this but you know it's like that marge brothers joke you know warning this guy looks as an idiot acts as an idiot but this shouldn't deceive you he is a media you know it's not this idea no they admit they are slaves they are part of capitalist reproduction this all progressive artists and so on individuals but no but they really are parts of capitalist reproduction so i think we should in the lateness hear it here be again active principled opportunists be ready everywhere to see a potential progressive use don't fall into this dogma that if a movie if a movie is depressive or whatever that it's necessarily progressive i uh agree 100 now open your heart do you have i know blah blah blah do you do you what are your favorite productions now movies tv series and so on um i quite like dune um as well um i also quite enjoyed uh white lotus i thought the satire was pretty sharp uh in white lettuce too yeah but yeah here comes my burger side but it's such a desperate world you can sympathize literally with nobody there maybe with some women but i cannot even choose which of the three main male characters that hotel manager or that guy one of the most disgusting scenes you remember at the beginning he shows his testicles do i have cancer and the husband of death the corrupted and they all so absolutely disgusting and maybe they'll steal a bourgeois side of [Laughter] but it's interesting i think it's correct image of of depression of our side of our story of our era you know yeah yeah yeah all right well slavoy you have been very generous with your time so i think after all of that whenever you want how can you say no to somebody who represents an organization called jacobi [Music] if you like this video from the jacobin show please hit like and subscribe and share with your friends thanks [Music] you

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Keywords: slavoj zizek, squid game, dune, james bond, no time to die, handmaid's tale, white lotus, jacobin show, jen pan, nando vila

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Length: 8min 56sec (536 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 28 2021