02/10/2016
"When we spectators are sitting in a movie theatre, looking at the screen, you remember, at the very beginning, before the movie comes on, it's a black screen, and then light thrown on...are we basically not staring into a toilet bowl, and waiting for things to reappear out of the toilet? And is the entire magic of spectacle showed on the screen not a deceptive lure trying to conceal the fact that we are basically watching s**t, as it were?" -Slavoj Žižek, The Pervert's Guide to Cinema
Taken in context of his brilliant analysis of cinema, and the psychological implications and explanations it holds for us, this quote is the most eloquent and elucidative critique of the medium I've yet come across.
-Isbell