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Hollywood Reporter notes that Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek will appear in a new Sophie Fiennes documentary, "The Pervert's Guide to Utopias," where he examines how cinema channels our desire for escape from political and economic collapse. The film extends his recurring collaboration with Fiennes, previously established through similar essay-documentary formats, and positions popular movies as screens onto which audiences project fantasies of radical transformation. Trump, capitalism, and apocalyptic anxiety all figure into his analysis, suggesting that the utopian impulse survives precisely because lived conditions feel increasingly unlivable.
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