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Unlike the much-derided American remakes of "The Vanishing" and "Les Diaboliques," Haneke sees no need to let either culture off the hook, especially when each has its own prominent history of violence, on- and off-camera. It's subtle observations like this that give both versions of "Funny Games" an added resonance.
If anything takes some getting used to in the film, it's the general unfamiliarity of the cast. After seeing a collection of familiar performers run through Haneke's horrifying experiment, the German cast begins with a studied approach to the performances that eventually loosens into hysteria and desperation that is just as convincing as their remake counterparts. It is truly stunning how Haneke mines the same static framing and intense performances to ends that are equally effective in both films even knowing the outcome of a protracted long take following a pivotal off-screen event, I found the experience just as emotionally agonizing to witness.
If there's any catharsis to be had from them, it will be in the introspection and assessment of your own attitudes toward violence. FAQ 1. What is the purpose of having Paul talk to the audience?
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Edit page. Top Gap. See more gaps ». Funny Games Did You Know? Create a list ». Movie Bucket List. See all related lists ». Share this page:. There happens to be the next stop for a pair of psychopathic young , articulate, white-gloved serial killers on an excursion through the neighborhood. They take the family hostage in their cabin and all of them are physically and mentally submitted to coercion , torture , punches , kicks and many others things.
Violent as well as disturbing film about two psychotic young men take a mother , father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and the family is forced to participate in a number of sadistic games in order to stay alive. This is a thought-provoking exploration of our violent society by means of two young delinquents and how depictions of violence reflect and shape our culture, a middle-class family submits violence, and death foisted upon them by two young , unexpected, white-gloved visitors at their vacation retreat near a lake.
Violent film dealing with a familiar deconstruction in the way violence is portrayed in the media. Good acting from protagonist duo , Ulrich Muhe and Susanne Lothar , marriage in real life , and both of whom sadly deceased. Actress Isabelle Huppert was offered the lead role of Ann but turned it down as she thought both the film and the lead character's hardships were too disturbing to portray , she regretted the decision later after seeing it, but still admitted she probably wouldn't have the courage to do it.
Director Michael Haneke has said that he never intended 'Funny Games' to be a horror film ; instead his idea was to make a film with a moralistic comment about the influence of media violence on society , it's a subject that Haneke is quite passionate about. When the film was screened at Cannes in it shocked the audience badly enough that many viewers, including some film critics, walked out of the screening.
The motion picture was well directed by Michael Hanake. Hanake is considered to be one of the best European filmmakers and Twice winner of the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival for The white ribbon and Amour ; as playwright he directed a number of stage productions in German.
A stereotypical home-invasion horror will simultaneously entertain and anger its audience by having its helpless victims subjected to sickening acts of violence and humiliation, before delivering a satisfyingly cathartic finale in which the survivors exact a fitting revenge on their tormentors. Director Michael Haneke is clearly not a supporter of such emotionally manipulative and patently unrealistic movie-making ploys and uses Funny Games to voice his concerns about the exploitative use of violence in cinema: he betrays those viewers who have come to expect a happy ending from such fare by repeatedly breaking the fourth wall, having his psychopaths communicate directly with the viewer making them guilty of complicity , and eventually allowing the antagonists to alter the outcome of the film in their favour.
Haneke's use of meta cinema to try and subvert the viewer's expectations is an undeniably brave move, but I cannot help feel that it doesn't succeed as well as intended; this could be because there just isn't enough of this self-reflexivity to allow the viewer become comfortable with the concept, but if I were to be brutally honest, I reckon it's because it's simply not handled with the level of finesse required.
The same actor plays Paul in "funny games" and Benny in "Benny's video" ,one of Haneke's previous works. Actually,Paul and his sidekick act as if they are in a play,and they are anyway.
That does not mean it's for everyone:with its absolute darkness,its cold violence,its God-forsaken world the prayer sequence is telling:is the female character really playing? The things ,even if they are now outshadowed by the human beings whereas ,in "der Siebente Kontinent" ,they were in the foreground ,are more important than in other directors works :the eggs ;the gloves the two boys are wearing:why didn't it alarm the naive Hausfrau;and the use of the golf ball can rival with the best of Lang or Hitchcock.
Haneke never wanted his audience to be peeping toms :so we never see the forced strip-tease of the heroine which will remind you of that of Julie London in Anthony Mann's "man of the West, ;we never see the murders,except the last one during which the dialogue turns so trite it plays everything down. Haneke suggests more than he shows ,like the great directors Hitchcock,Lang,or Polanski. His sense of ellipsis is incredible and gives goose pimples:we do not attend the kid's murder,we're in the kitchen with one of the intruders:just one harrowing scream ,then silence.
A fixed shot which lasts several agonizing minutes displays a dark living-room. We know something unspeakable happened. And however ,when they try to regain consciousness,they never speak of the tragedy which happened.
And what a tragedy! The loss of a child ,is there anything worse? Are these parents like those of "Benny's video" trying to pick up selfishly the pieces? Or else,as we wish they could,probably they cannot get it through their heads ,they do not realize what happened to them.
Not a word for this unfortunate victim,all they want to do is to escape ,to save their dear lives. This might seem monstrous to some! The killers have some kind of logic which will make your hair stand on end.
The hostage-taking of a whole family is not new in the cinema. And in the French director's thriller ,Sandrine Bonnaire's and Isabelle Huppert's crimes were not premeditated. One may regret the tricky end which lacks originality and was used a thousand times or more.
But it's only a detail. Haneke's movies are crying to be seen. Coventry 27 April Oh yeah, this movie was very funny! Hmm, as you can guess by its reputation and the other reviews around here, Michael Haneke's "Funny Games" isn't exactly the type of film that makes you merry. Haneke is a brilliant German director who was never really interested in the bright side of humanity and revolves all his films on misery, emotional pain and violence.
Without ever reverting to exploitative gore, his films are disturbingly intense and petrifying on a psychological level and his narrative style somehow always involves the audience. The only inferior moments in this film are the brief shots in which the characters pro-actively address themselves to the viewer and emphasize that this is a movie.
Particularly the "rewind"-scene towards the end was pretty stupid and it nearly ruined the whole movie for me. I can only hope that Haneke subsequently decided to add this part in order to prevent his film from being too 'harsh' for the likes of critics and mainstream audiences.
Enough about the minor flaws, as the largest part of "Funny Games" is genuinely shocking and exceptional. A middle-aged couple and their son arrive at their lakeside house for the annual vacation in which they sail and catch up with old friends.
Before finishing unpacking already, two twenty-something boys show up at the door and invite themselves in. In a polite way, they're being very obtrusive and they quickly turn out to be repellent psychopaths that kill and torture for no apparent reason.
Most of the film seems to be filmed in real-time, which only increases the intensity of the family's suffering and several sequences are incredibly difficult to watch. Gruesome atmosphere, not for the sissies. Very delicate, disturbing, unbearable atmosphere for those no prepared. A real shock, but a so delightful shock. Forget super heroes junk. Too Difficult tedg 8 April I think this movie attempts something virtually impossible, and probably only a German filmmaker would be interested in this particular problem.
Watching film is intrinsically exploitive. Often the cinematic exaggeration of entering personal space results in violence. What about this? An intelligent exploration of this problem from the viewer's side is "Clockwork Orange. This is that movie. Because it is about itself, it enters into a conspiracy of awareness about itself with the viewer. The intruders wink at the audience. Just before the movie begins the phase where it starts to shape up as a movie, that intruder remarks on it not yet being a movie.
At one point, the action is "rewound" to be replayed with a different outcome. It is all very clear. But the challenge is not to remark on the problem, but to say something interesting or new or useful about it. That may be impossible, at least with normal narrative techniques, so this exercise is something of a waste.
The one interesting thing for me is the white gloves. Most commenters assume this is to avoid fingerprints, which goes against every motive we see. As it is the only noticeable costuming, one must conclude it is to denote the cartoonish element. Ted's Evaluation -- 2 of 3: Has some interesting elements. A family is terrorized by two psychos in an isolated vacation house. That's the whole plot. The movie is sick, degrading and sadistic people walked out when I saw it --but it won't leave me.
I saw it a few years ago and I still can't shake it. It is well-directed and extremely well-acted and it is horrifying.
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