This highly disturbing and unsettling film is set to open next month
It’s Michael Hanaeke’s version of his 1997 Austrian film with the same title
IMBD Summary: In this exploration of our violent society and how depictions of violence reflect and shape our culture, a middle-class housewife Anna tells the story of how she and her husband George and their 10-year-old son Georgie submitted both physically and mentally to the torture, violence, and death foisted upon them by two young, unexpected, white-gloved visitors at their weekend vacation retreat near a lake. Written by steandric
Other Reviews: Still, one factor that may prevent this century’s Funny Games from reaching mainstream success is its use of off-screen, rather than on-screen, violence. The original, while profoundly crude and highly suggestive, consciously withheld graphic imagery from the audience as a way to defy the genre it was mocking. Instead, it implied violence through the reactions of the characters. Such a strategy goes against the norm commonly found in American cinema, where directors go to great lengths to continue pushing the violence envelope. Deviating from this style could cost Funny Games in profits since it will likely be the violence that audiences are paying to see in the first place.
Funny Games will bring up a topic American audiences need to confront: we fail to realize how much pleasure we take from watching other people suffer. We're unaware of our own schadenfreude tendencies because, deep down, we all believe we’re never going to actually experience pain and torture in real-life. So we look to the cinema and other media to fill that void. Funny Games is going to let us know there's something wrong with that. (Matthew Huntley/BOP)
I have been doing a lot of reading about this movie it’s very controversial. Some people feel that Hanaeke is too self righteous trying too mock the American public’s blood lust. Others think this movie is brilliant.
One thing is for sure it seems it will sake you too your core. There where post I read from people who have already seen it saying that it made them physically ill, and that even the Trailer is too intense for them so be vary of watching it.
I think the idea is a good one in the sense that most you won’t even see the actual violence. What you do see is the terror these people through for the young men’s entertainment.
As someone with a cabin by a lake, I think I will avoid this one just so I can completely be at peace up there... and as far as the gf - forgettaboutit...
How weak is the stomach of anyone who thinks that trailer is too intense? Seems like an interesting movie though.
Yeah I don’t really understand it myself…
But if you go read the IMDB forms there where a lot of people who deeply offended by this movie…I guess watching the picture perfect family get tortured by a pair of white boys isn’t everyone’s idea of a good time
I also find it interesting that on the rating scale
Instead of listing features like violence, sex etc. the first thing is “terror”
The original was a great film and extremely disturbing.
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Funny Games
