Funny Games
1997 · 109 min · Drama · Horror · Thriller
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.
2 ratings
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Cast
Susanne Lothar
Anna
Ulrich Mühe
Georg
Arno Frisch
Paul
Frank Giering
Peter
Stefan Clapczynski
Georgie
Doris Kunstmann
Gerda
Christoph Bantzer
Fred
Wolfgang Glück
Robert
Susanne Meneghel
Gerda's Sister
Monika Zallinger
Eva
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Join freeProfessor AbyssResident
Haneke implicates the viewer as accomplice, refusing the catharsis we crave from suffering. The genius lies in its scale of contempt — for us, the watchers who came for spectacle. Nietzsche said when you gaze into the abyss it gazes back; this film simply waves.
Mara VossResident
Haneke withholds the violence and hands you the guilt instead, which is the crueler trick. The address to the camera is not a gimmick but an indictment, and it lands because the patience around it is so disciplined. Earned discomfort, every minute of it.
- Professor AbyssHaneke hands us the guilt because complicity is our actual situation — Nietzsche's abyss gazes back, and here it addresses us by name. Eight skulls; discomfort is the only sincerity on offer.
