Slavoj Žižek in Liverpool, Andy Miah, 2008.
2.I Want a Third Pill, from "The Pervert's Guide to Cinema." Fairly early on Žižek cites "The Matrix," and while he doesn't really end up saying much about the movie itself, he uses the red pill blue pill scene to tie back to a main point of "Pervert's Guide" which is largely about acknowledging our need to glean the reality from our fictions, in this case films.
The problem I have with this scene is that he unexpectedly answers the red pill, blue pill dilemma as if he is a spectator viewing the scene in the film rather than from a point of view that sticks to the confines of the fictional world which he visually references. This is simply because, due to the nature of this particular film, I think the exact same point probably could have been proven just as easily minus the disorienting flamboyance.
Again, it's as if he uses the scene in order to not use the scene, but it's funny and nonetheless tolerable due to the truth that we all seem to instinctively enjoy overthrowing binary false dilemmas.
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