Slumdog Millionaire torture scene

As told 5

“If anything, it brings out the worst of both worlds. The most obscurantist, all this fate-destiny ideology with the most stupid Hollywood amusement logic.”
5:47 Environment, Identity and Multiculturalism2009-06-19 · 1:14:47

“i like that brutal part that you see, you know, blinding people to be beggars and so on”
16:35 Zizek meets India (Full Video)2009 · 1:52:39

“Of course if you are not rich everyone is tortured regularly.”
1:50:58 Syriza – A New Word for Freedom2015-04-14 · 1:55:29

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, 2 jobsuses

formal freedom ×2 objective violence ×1

Its cast and sources

populated by

Boris Buden2 Ernst Nolte2 Leszek Kołakowski2 Arundhati Roy3 Franco Berardi2 Tim Blake Nelson1 Josef Mengele1 James Meredith1

alongside works

Slumdog Millionaire5 The Rise of the Indebted Man2 Soviet Marxism2 Stalin documentary1 Provincializing Europe1 The Grey Zone1 The Climate of History1 Short History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union1

Told together with

33% Argentina pays off IMF debt, IMF panics 2 shared talks 20% Yugoslav student newspaper treats fake elections as real 2 shared talks 17% Haiti Constitution: all citizens are black 2 shared talks 13% Dinner invitation: paying the bill ritual 2 shared talks 11% Postmodern permissive father and grandmother visit 2 shared talks 10% Gulag birthday telegram to Stalin 2 shared talks 9% Stalin joins the applause 2 shared talks

Every retelling 5

5:47 Environment, Identity and Multiculturalism2009-06-19 · 1:14:47

Žižek uses his hatred of the film to argue it combines the worst of traditional obscurantist fate-ideology with the worst of Hollywood entertainment logic, undermining Chakrabarty's celebration of India as model of fruitful coexistence., illustrating postmodernity as combination of worst of both worlds,critique of alternate modernity

16:35 Zizek meets India (Full Video)2009 · 1:52:39

He admits the film is kitsch but likes the brutal part, children blinded to be used as beggars, because that is where the real cruelty of the system shows., illustrating real cruelty behind kitsch

1:50:58 Syriza – A New Word for Freedom2015-04-14 · 1:55:29

In the film's opening, the protagonist is automatically tortured for minor cheating; Indian friends confirm routine police torture of the non-wealthy is completely normal but invisible in Western media because India is framed as 'the greatest democracy'., illustrating objective violence,racism and post-colonial ideology

24:15 Modern How-To Guide2015-05-05 · 1:23:04

Žižek cites the film's opening, where a contestant accused of cheating is tortured by police, as a realistic depiction of Indian policing that his Indian friends confirmed: if you are not very rich, the police simply torture you., illustrating bourgeois freedom,formal vs. substantive freedom

24:40 What Does It Mean to Be a Great Thinker Today?2015-05-05 · 1:42:03

The film's opening scene of police torture of a poor quiz contestant reflects actual Indian police practice against non-wealthy citizens; Indian democrats even petitioned for police to torture only for political reasons, not for cheating at game shows., illustrating bourgeois freedom,formal vs. real freedom