Funny Games

Year: 1997

Grade: B+

Country: Austria

Director: Haneke

Review

fascinating film. haneke has done several films, but i’ve only seen this and cache. suffice it to say that he’s rising quickly in my book. it’s a torture film that never becomes a revenge film, though the audience certainly wants this turn to happen. it’s intriguing because haneke breaks the fourth wall and blurs the line between fiction and reality in a way that implies that the audience is complicit in the violence it observes. almost as if we are guilty participants for watching the film. there’s a lot to this film and i’m not going to be able to give it its due in my current sickened state. watch it.