You could say that Adorno meant that fictionalization is just a form of escape from bad reality and is therefore apolitical, whereas Žižek says that fiction can tell us something important about reality, that it contains something real, something that is more real than reality. Tarantino’s fiction is double real: It thinks about what could have happened if the reality of the Committee for a Jewish Army of Stateless and Palestinian Jews would not have come to an end, and it tells us something about the contemporary reality of our societies.
Quentin Tarantino: Inglorious Basterds – An Antifascist Movie Masterpiece
christian fuchs, September 5th 2009
Tags: Brüno, Inglorious Bastards, Inglorious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino, Sacha Baron Cohen, Slavoj Žižek, Tarantino and Philosophy, Theodor W. AdornoPosted in Uncategorized