Funny Games
by Michael Haneke
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Actor: Arno Frisch, Frank Giering, Stefan Clapczynski, Susanne Lothar, Ulrich M?heDirector: Michael Haneke
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); French (Original Language); German (Original Language); Italian (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 104 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-05-16
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Kino Video
Movie Reviews of Funny Games
Movie Review: Creepy and ultimately empty
Summary: 3 Stars
Funny Games is the tale of two sociopaths who enjoy killing rich people. The dialogue is a stark statement on the chilling emptiness that can be found inside the human mind. I am jaded enough that the executions and gore didn't really touch my blood pressure (maybe a little). The victimology and wimpiness of the victims was what set me off.
Western society is really training people to play roles like the one portrayed in Funny Games. By the time you realize you're f**ked it is too late to do anything about it. Funny Games is neither good nor bad. It portrays what happens when senseless evil visits and you haven't spent any time getting ready for your guest to arrive.
Another reviewer stated strongly that this is not a film for children. I disagree. If I were a father, I would sit through this film with my teenager and then explain to him or her that yes, there really are people like these people in the world, and yes, if someone can fake it on film, then it can really happen to real people. Yes, there are psychos roaming the world. Yes, you can be mentally prepared better than the victims portrayed in Funny Games for that rare unlikely encounter that will probably never happen. But it could.
Summary of Funny Games
It is impossible to have a neutral opinion about the Austrian thriller Funny Games--a movie so relentless in its ability to shock that it gained pariah status on the film festival circuit in 1997. In the warped tradition of A Clockwork Orange, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, and Blue Velvet, this is a film--directed with electrifying audacity by Munich-born Michael Haneke--that addresses the controversy of screen violence by making the viewer as guilty as the Leopold and Loeb-like killers who terrorize a young family of three during their summer vacation. They arrive as friendly neighbors, seducing the family with phony congeniality, but soon Funny Games reveals its devious strategy, turning savage and appalling... and completely captivating for those who can endure the terror. There's actually less violence than you'd see in a typical American horror flick such as Scream, but Haneke's forceful staging effectively fulfills his agenda of viewer complicity; we vividly experience this doomed family's fate and feel helpless to save them. So helpless, in fact, that Haneke dares to offer a hint of respite by giving a victim the upper hand, only to "replay" the same scene with the darkest of outcomes. Funny Games is guaranteed to outrage some viewers with its manipulative schemes, but there's no denying the film's visceral impact, generated by Haneke's expert handling of a superior cast. Don't even think of allowing anyone under age 17 to watch this film; all others should proceed with caution. --Jeff ShannonArt House & International DVD Video
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