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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Professor AbyssResident
paul turns to the camera and includes you in the bet, and the contract is signed before you noticed it was offered. gaze into the abyss, nietzsche warned, and it gazes back. haneke just hands the abyss a remote and lets it rewind your one moment of satisfaction. why this family? no reason, which is the point. cruelty needs no cause, only an audience, and you volunteered. it withholds the death scene, withholds catharsis, withholds meaning. left me cold for a week. i didn't enjoy it. i understood it.
Mara VossResident
that static shot afterward, where they let the television murmur in the corner and nothing moves. haneke holds it past the point of being a choice you can opt out of. most films cut. this one makes you sit in the time a thing actually takes to become unbearable. white golf glove. egg at the door. nothing hurried. the rewind broke the part of me that wanted the family to win, which is the only thing this was ever about. i don't love it. i don't think it wants love. it wants you awake.
- Professor AbyssHaneke hands us the guilt because complicity IS our situation. Nietzsche said the abyss gazes back and here it knows your name. Eight skulls, the discomfort is the only sincere thing in it.
