By targeting the wrong audience, he's missing his mark. I totally understand if others don't. This is Michael Haneke talking about Funny Games, which I found very interesting. I think it's brilliantly uncomfortable, a lot of my friends (we were 16-17 at the time) left the movie when it came out. I know plenty of people personally who cannot stomach any sort of torture or gore in a film, and refuse to watch most thrillers and horrors. I don't mean that it's super gory, but it isn't really hidden. Haneke has said that “things that are not shown and that the spectator needs to imagine with his own fantasy can be much stronger than the things that are actually shown.” While the first murder is taking place, Haneke prefers to show one of the villains casually getting food from the fridge—with the gunshot and screaming sounds in the background. I think the reason why he was so loud and preachy in his dialog with the audience is that he feared that his movie could just as easily have been seen as a self-aware parody/homage to horror films, a la scream. Die beiden jungen Männer verlassen das Haus. I love both of them, I just didn't feel like they really helped to improve on a movie I was already in love with. I actually saw Haneke's 2007 version first, and didn't end up seeing his original until a few years later. Benny’s Video | I think its far more dangerous to try an elicit the same agony from fictional violence that you would from seeing something real. I enjoyed Funny games on a horror film level, which I guess is the opposite of what he was going for. Zudem wird der Zuschauer bei der Verkündung des ersten Opfers mit einem fragenden Blick in die Kamera und dem Satz „Sie wollen doch auch wissen, wie es weitergeht, oder?“ konfrontiert. And what has started as a happy accident is now taking the internet by a storm. But opting out of some of these cookies may have an effect on your browsing experience. Aaj ki video me hum Funny Games movie ke baare me baatein karenge. Really liked this. His approach is somewhat consistent with the second rule of the Dogme 95 movement that Lars von Trier was part of, which prohibits the use of sounds or music outside of the narrative. In case you feel your rights are violated, kindly email me at hauntingtube@gmail.com and I will be quite eager to take down my video. Apart from Haneke's in-your-face nudges, it is a "purer", more ruthless horror movie, free from hollywood formulas and pandering to the audience, and I admire it for that. Das weiße Band – Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte | And then I started doing some research after the viewing and came across what tdvh1993 had posited above and everything just seemed to shine through a little clearer.