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Funny Games (1997) Uncut Reaction! (Patreon)

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2023-10-20 21:28:23
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Ryan

“funny people” adam sandler and seth rogan, title just reminded me

Fatorias

I love that you reacted to this, one of my favorites. I strongly recommend watching Patricia Taxxon’s analysis of the American remake (both versions are literally the same movie, so it’ll still apply for the version you watched). Love the content as always!

Yours truly, Johnny Dollar

I saw this movie blind and by myself like James did. My takeaway was the this is the home invasion movie that asks its audience "Why do you enjoy watching movies like this?"

Michael Proch

As impactful and affecting as this movie is, in my humble opinion every other movie Haneke has made is leaps better than Funny Games. I would totally recommend checking out Caché and White Ribbon, possibly his two best films.

Linda

This film is shit. I'm always disappointed and judgy with torture porn fans. Sorry, not sorry. Plus, I am really fucking sick of dog killing. Makes me wonder a lot of things about the writers and fans of such crap.

Tetley

Couple of films that push the horror envelope this week - both in different ways. Cronenberg has said "the function of a horror film is to allow people to confront things that disturb them about life in general in a relatively safe environment". I think The Fly tries to test the limits of how much grotesqueness is "fun" in mainstream horror -- and successfully stays on the right side of that line. With Funny Games Haneke seems to be trying to tear down the safe environment itself by pulling the viewer into the movie, maybe trying to make us culpable for watching it in the first place. But I think he stays on the right side of the line too. Like James, I laughed it off at the end. But for me there are other movies out there that are genuinely nasty experiences and questionably "art" -- we've mentioned films like Snowtown and 120 Days of Sodom in the past. But the line is different for everyone -- which is what makes horror such an interesting artistic arena to work in. A real testing ground for filmmakers and audiences alike.

Tetley

Agree. Caché is a more interesting movie than Funny Games.

Linda

This horror subgenre is nothing more than a collection of tedious, tiresome, tarted up snuff flicks.

Brandon

Have you seen any of Haneke's other films?

Linda

I've seen Cache. But, so what? How does that excuse the lazy, unimaginative, unmotivated, arbitrary violence in the POS Funny Games?

Brandon

I guess I just wanted to suggest a different perspective. The movie feels awful by design because its a commentary on primarily american cinema dressing up an awful subject matter as something to be thrilling or romantacized. At least as I see it, the movie works as a critique by relaying the same material, without any of the tricks to portray it as entertainment and to show it for what it is. On the surface level you're totally right, but I feel the intent/value of the movie exists in the subtext. Cache is similar, although the literal story in Cache holds it's own much better.

Linda

Cache is a gorgeous, well made film.

Linda

Yeah, I get it. All the superlatives extolling how "clever" and "brilliant" a torture porn film that admonishes the audience for liking torture porn films is. How pretentious can you get? And the fact that it's a subtitled foreign film comically adds to the pretentiousness. 🤣 Plus, this is hardly original. The David Lynch directed, much better in every way, Blue Velvet had the same admonishing sort of theme.

Brandon

Ouch, I guess I'm pretentious... to each their own

Linda

Nah, I meant the director. And I'm more than willing to admit how bitchy I can be.

Raul Panzar

He breaks the 4th wall the same way Ferris Beuller does, and from the killer's perspective, its for the same reason. He's having fun and the 4th wall breaks are comedic moments for him, but for us the audience its a way for us to see how sick he is. They don't just want to kill people, they want to have "fun" doing it. The director is doing the same thing. He gives us a hint of a happy ending when the wife finally kills one of them, then yanks it away from us, saying, yeah I could give you a happy ending if I wanted to, I"ll give you some hope, then yank it away. The director is doing to us what the killers did to the couple.

Raul Panzar

A film being foreign doesn't make it pretentious.

Linda

Cache is really good.

Linda

Yes, I know.

eoin

I know it's very late but I adore this film and it actually has a lot to say about cinematic 'realism' in the philosophical sense. When we see something on film is it actually reality, or an approximation of reality. Some theorists say film is 'reality projected'. So when we see violence in film, and then we see real violence on say the news, they're projected to us the same way and we consume them in the same way and Haneke is very concerned about the effects that has on people.