The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

00:00:05 The problem for us is not, "Are our desires satisfied or not?"

00:06:15 -What's the matter with them? -What's the matter with all the birds?

00:11:17 in the agency of the superego.

00:15:35 He is just a voice.

00:21:42 is the same music as the one we hear when Hitler is daydreaming

00:28:36 but without the castrated dimension of myself.

00:33:40 the deepest level of our desires

00:40:33 as if adopting the role of Norman Bates' mother, the murderer in Psycho

00:46:59 and then light thrown on.

00:52:31 spiritual, reflecting and so on

00:59:01 Like when you see another person, into his or her eyes, you see the abyss.

01:04:45 to have sexual intercourse with her, with the woman

01:11:30 After killing her in an act of frustration, the hero enters his fantasy-space

01:17:48 that maybe, while they are doing it

01:23:03 It's as if our inner psychic space is too wild and sometimes we have to make love

01:28:46 She is too excessively exposed to life in its brutal meaninglessness.

01:36:06 Finally, a creature which almost looks like her

01:40:52 -And Scarecrow's brain? -And Scarecrow's brain?

01:46:02 Ask me.

01:50:59 which prevent you from getting a clear orientation

01:56:34 Namely, what is to be taken seriously and not seriously in his films.

02:02:24 The answer again is the psychoanalytic notion of superego.

02:07:39 So that, precisely because I think it's only a game

02:13:56 the very whiteness of the cinematic screen.