cimorene

I followed a link to one of the analysts quoted in Hbomberguy's new video (and stolen from by James Somerton) and read the essay (the one about Demeter and Persephone and the Alien movies), and the essay made a throwaway reference to Slavoj Zizek's reading of Hitchcock's The Birds, which I haven't actually seen (my sense of this movie is primarily informed by the episode of Animaniacs where The Goodfeathers are stunt actors on The Boids), but I was trying to find a good source to read what Zizek actually said about it and not just a brief reference or summary and I just kept failing and failing and somehow found myself an hour later several pages into a brief summary of... Zizek's entire philosophy...?

I think I'm going to finish reading the summary, though. Later.

I have a tortured relationship with reading philosophy: some of it I love, some of it gives me a rage headache. But the summary here, at least, is enjoyable.

I still wish I could read some more detail about The Birds. Apparently there's a film where he talks about it, but I suppose the odds that I can watch it are low, and I don't think I'm up for reading the transcript.