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User Reviews Parents say Kids say. Parent of a 9-year-old Written by Bobby G. July 26, An intense masterpiece Really one of my favorite films of all time. Mostly offscreen. Offscreen violence includes a dog beaten to death body seen from far off , a chil Continue reading. Report this review. Adult Written by nul April 9, Amazing but Incredibly Disturbing What really gets to you in a movie is not the physical effects of violence after all, we laugh at somebody's head getting shot off in Pulp Fiction , but t Foreign Movies Spa, Arg, Fra See all related lists ».
Share this page:. Clear your history. The A. Club Scott Tobias The audience is indicted for its bloodlust. Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez The movie gives you what you think you want, and then gives you some more, and just when you think things can't get any worse, Haneke swoops in and smashes the wall between fiction and reality, turning the viewer into a direct accomplice to what's transpiring onscreen.
Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington Funny Games is an intellectual's suspense film, which ultimately tries to critique and demystify violence. Empire Kim Newman It's a film you might argue with, but its sparing use of on-screen violence, some extraordinarily protracted scenes and sensitive handling of thorny subject matter make it also a film you ought to see.
There they are visited by two polite teenage boys, Peter and Paul, friends of their lakeside neighbours, who ask to borrow some eggs. From the opening credits of Funny Games where a family of three, on a placid drive to their holiday home, change tapes on the car stereo and the gentle sounds of Mozart are suddenly replaced by a loud and raucous blast of death metal, director Michael Haneke signals his intent.
Sure to his word, Funny Games quickly shapes to be a film in the mold of Straw Dogs , The Last House on the Left and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre wherein the idyll of a middle-class family is savagely overturned by outsiders and descends into a gruelling assault of sadism and torture.
Funny Games begins innocently enough with the introduction of the two boys, both dressed in white sweaters, shorts and plimsolls as though they were preppies returned from a day at the beach.
An incident, which is comical in its gaucheness, where Frank Giering asks to borrow some eggs but keeps dropping them suddenly and unexpectedly turns violent. And from that point on, Funny Games becomes a harrowing, psychologically gripping work of terror.
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.
My guess is that it's trying to show how madness and evil can show up anywhere at any time and how any one can be destroyed. One of the killers keeps turning to the audience and making comments like, "You want to see more, don't you? In other words we're guilty of watching this. I don't buy that for one second. If that's true, what does that make the director who directed this? He made this violent sick movie He's clean because he's not watching?
That's bull. That's cheating and a pretty dumb device. Still it does stay with you, but do you really want to sit and watch a family being terrorized AND be blamed for it? View at your own risk. There was a point in the film where one of the perpetrators turns not to the victims, but to us, those that are watching the film, as asks us if we feel they have a chance of winning a bet on their lives.
It is clear that we are part of the film. In what way? Maybe we have become so used to violence that it is a game - a funny game - to us. Maybe we need to be reminded that real people are involved in violence. It is not a game. I have already seen the version of this film.
It is exactly the same script, just different actors. Somehow, it seems more real here in the original German. It will definitely make you think. Funny Games is a film that has tried to be a bit too clever for it's own good, but somehow got away it and is still a very good movie. Exactly what the director wanted to achieve with this film is unknown, as there isn't a defining point to the movie; but a 'point' doesn't seem to be important anyway, as this film is all about style.
The plot is simple and it follows a family that goes to stay in their vacation cabin. However, one thing they don't count on during their holiday is two psycho's interrupting their fun and imprisoning them in their own home.
This sort of film leaves a lot open for inventiveness, and this movie has that. While I do like this film a lot as it's a great ride and one that I very much enjoyed, it has to be said that the film could have been a lot better.
The idea of two random people coming along and completely empowering a family their own home is shocking, and the way that the film is very self-aware in that is a movie is good, but if it had added a social commentary that isn't impossible to see, and gave the audience a bit more on the idea of the family home being 'invaded'; it could have been in masterpiece territory. Earlier in the review I said that the film doesn't have a 'point', which seems to be the case; but it does know what it wants to do, and that is shock the viewer.
The fact that it has a very defined element of realism helps the film in this bid, and some of the events in the movie really are shocking. The film appears to want to analyse the relationship between the audience and a movie, and it does this by way of having the lead characters ask the audience questions like "You are on their side, aren't you? Basically, Funny Games is a thriller that overstepped it's mark.
It has tried to be too clever, and the result is a film that is messy and doesn't really know what it wants to be. However, if viewed as a straight shock-thriller; it will be enjoyed. That is how I recommend seeing it. HumanoidOfFlesh 12 June Most of the sadistic violence occurs off-screen,and the ending is very bleak and depressing.
The acting is extremely believable,the photography is excellent,the characters are well-developed and two white-gloved sadists are pure evil. Austrian director Michael Haneke,responsible for earlier equally disturbing and powerful "Benny's Video",manages to create a horrific atmosphere of dread and fear.
No gore or bloody violence,just good sheer terror! This is the way horror should be!!! So if you're into extreme cinema this one is a must-see! Are you sure you want a second home?
What you see in the movies is what you see literally. It's not Panic Room. George Tim Roth , Anna Naomi Watts, also executive producer of the film , and their little son Georgie Devon Gearhart visit their posh vacation home only to be beset upon by two clean-cut caddies, Peter Brady Corbet and Paul Michael Pitt , dressed in white sweaters and gloves.
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