Round 5: Tossup 6

This person appears in a film whose sections are each introduced with Brian Eno’s song “Weird Bird Call Carnival” playing over shots of Rorschach ink blots. In that 2006 film, this person declares that “flowers are something inherently disgusting” while using a hose to water tulips. (15[1])In this person’s Criterion Closet visit, he took two copies of Y tu mamá también (“ee too mah-MAH tahm-BYEN”) and admitted to fastforwarding through movies. In a 2012 film, this person is framed in front of a (*) dumpster as he says “I already am eating from the trash can all the time.” (10[1])This person told Charlie Rose a story about Niels Bohr’s horseshoe to illustrate his take on Kung Fu Panda. In two films by Ralph Fiennes’s sister Sophie, this person explores scenes by auteurs like Hitchcock and Lynch via Freudian psychoanalysis. For 10 points, those Pervert’s Guides to cinema and ideology feature what Slovenian philosopher? ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Slavoj Žižek (“SLAH-voy ZHEE-zhek”)
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