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Funny Games review
Daniel Corleone - wrote on 03/08/2013
"We're not up to feature film length yet. You want a real ending with plausible plot development." A brutally shocking yet provocative and surprising crime flick that is definitely not for the faint of heart. Unsettling coupled with dark humor and gruesome horrific acts. It's starts of with a regular wealthy family namely Georg (Ulrich Mühe), his wife Anna (Susanne Lothar), his son Georgie (Stefan Clapczynski). Peter (Frank Giering) and Paul (Arno Frisch) visit the family to ask for some eggs, and things eventually go wrong. The director utilizes effective suspense build-up and humor. The artists involved were cruel, sympathetic and realistic. In effect, the performances were authentic and believable. Excellent screenplay with lines such as "The wind blows where it wishes." "You …
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4/4
*Sarah* - wrote on 12/29/2008
Two psychotic young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic "games" with one another for their own amusement.
Funny Games is another one of those films everybody bare me has seen. Finally I found it in my supermarket this afternoon and just finished watching it. I have to admit that it toally blew me away. Funny Games is far more than a Horror, it's also a depiction of just how often Media violence is in our society and how much we take it for granted and almost let ourselved be entertained by this. Pure genuis!
The film opens up with a helicopter shot of the family arriving at their holiday home on the motorway. While watching this we are shown just how close the family, setting us up for one hell of a ride. This …
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3.5/4
"Why are you doing this to us?"
Arbogast1960 - wrote on 04/03/2008
Even though he can be--or rather, is--too preachy, I am a Haneke fan. This film, Cache, and The Seventh Continent are particularly brilliant at probing, in most unsettling ways, the self-created horrors of the bourgeoisie. Granted, he doesn't do so with the same verve or puckish wit as Bunuel, but on the other hand he does so with a tangible plot unlike Godard, so you take what you get I suppose. And technically he's one of the finest filmmakers working today--if he ever decided to just let her rip and make a Hitchcockian thriller, we'd be in store for a great film, no doubt. This film is truly painful to watch, with the sadistic games its villains/protagonists play with the family, and wittier (particularly in its self-reflexive moments) than one might expect.
While Haneke …
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3/4
The Most Unsettling Games
Chris Kavan - wrote on 09/21/2007
Unsettling, disturbing, depressing - Funny Games is a film you can't go into lightly. You'll see plenty more deaths in any average Hollywood shoot 'em up, but I guarantee that deaths in this film will leave a mark that won't leave you for days. Whether it's a critique of violence in the real world, or violence on film, it certainly gets its point across. Seeing as there's a 2008 remake coming out (by the same director, only using more well-known actors) I'm anxious to see if it can capture that completely unnerving feeling from the original. It's hard enough watching this on DVD - I would have a really hard time watching it in a theater.
Be warned: this film is harsh, direct and unflinching. Don't go into it lightly - don't go into it if you're feeling down - but do go in with an open …
