Choke on a DeathCam

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Choke on a DeathCam
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The story behind 'Choke'
MANcini's
DeathCam/fringes
Sadism/Masochism
Anti-apophenic reality
What would Jesus NOT do?
Chuck Palahniuk: Choke
Choke is a 2008 black comedy film directed by Clark Gregg. The film stars Sam Rockwell and Anjelica Huston. Production took place in New Jersey in 2007. It premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and was purchased by Fox Searchlight Pictures for distribution. The film was released on September 26, 2008 and the DVD was released on February 17, 2009.
MANcini's
Italian origin
meaning: 'ambidextrous'

Victor:
- sex-addict, working as a 'reenactor of life in Colonial America'  


- perverse anaclisis towards her mother
- 'scapegoat' (p.60)
- a tool of his mother
- save Victor or save mom?

- Catch 22 situation-> solution : keep her weak to be in charge
MANcini's II.
Ida Mancini
- ignorance of women as women, rather medical objects
- former drug addict
- suffering from delusions, such as:
prosopagnosia
'jamais vu'



- religious role (p.118)
- slut
- mother
DeathCam/fringes
- Donald Kunze 's ‘teleological hinge’
- manipulation of spatiality: inside frames/deathcam
 
Lacan's 'Purloined Letter' analysis - free play of signifiers

no established meaning proper- in 'Choke' Denny's Fregoli-delusion theory
Sadism/Masochism
Anti-apophenic reality of Ida Mancini
coined by Krafft-Ebing in 1893
Krafft-Ebing used the terms in a very specific sense, to refer to a sexual perversion in which sexual satisfaction is dependent upon inflicting pain on others (sadism) or upon experiencing pain oneself (masochism). 
drives/Desire
drives are partial manifestos of Desire

it is not the sadist, but the masochist who is superior
Apophenia is the experience of seeing patterns or connections in random or meaningless data.
->anti-apophenia: Ida does not want to deal with knowledge/culture 

language: deconstruct
find a way to cure knowledge 
beauty of Nature can't be explained or understood (Lacanian Real)
Discordianism in her thought
(a modern religion centered on the idea that chaos is all that there is, and that disorder and order)
Thank You for your atttention!