Project X / Facebook Party
example · film: Project X ·
retold in 3 talks
Parents leave kids alone with rules (stay in the living room); the party explodes, the house burns. The father returns, not just angry, but appreciative of the son's 'ability' to throw such a party, showing how authority solicits desire.
As told 2
“I must confess you something I never would have thought you are able to do this. Like appreciation.”
“At a certain point in the film it's clearly that it acquires a sacred dimension. This is really a movie about a rediscovery of the sacred—old sacred orgies in our societies.”
What it carries
one story, many jobs: the ideas this anecdote is deployed to argue, one tally mark per use (an idea page shows the same relation from the other end, as its shelf of stories)
contents · one story, 3 jobsuses
authentic paternal authority
×1
divine obscenity
×1
surplus enjoyment
×1
Its cast and sources
populated by
Russell Brand1Peter Sellers1Norman Vincent Peale1Trevor Noah1Donna Brazile1Borat Sagdiyev1Robin Wright1Jared Leto1
alongside works
Every retelling 2
Parents leave kids alone with rules (stay in the living room); the party explodes, the house burns. The father returns, not just angry, but appreciative of the son's 'ability' to throw such a party, showing how authority solicits desire., illustrating authentic paternal authority
In the film Project X, a stupid teenage party spirals into a ten-thousand-person riot burning the house. At a certain point the film shows this chaos acquiring a sacred dimension, a rediscovery of old orgies, not merely secular amusement. The father's grudging approval at the end illustrates how traditional authority secretly endorses the transgression., illustrating surplus enjoyment,the sacred,permissive authority's underside