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Funny Games
1997
A powerfully graphic film (even though no violence is ever shown on the screen itself) about an Austrian family who goes on a country vacation and become the victims of two cold-blooded psychopaths who are out to torture them with their "funny games." Haneke's point, that fictional violence is as real as the real world's, is .. Read more
| Starring | Susanne Lothar, Ulrich Muhe, Frank Giering, Arno Frisch |
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| Director | Michael Haneke |
| Genres | Horror, Thriller, World Cinema |
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A disturbing film, intended as a polemic against film-makers and audiences who enjoy gratuitous violence; the violence here is presented in a way to make it seem painful rather than thrilling.
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- 02 Mar 2006 at 15:41
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Utter rubbish! Avoid!!
This film has no redeeming qualities at all - I wouldn't want to waste any more of my life even trying to begin to explain how bad this film is - it was ... read more »
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- 27 Jul 2006 at 07:39
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Nasty in a good way
I don't agree with the thesis - there are healthy reasons people enjoy horrific entertainment, and fictional violence is in no way as bad as the real thing... read more »
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HANEKE DEBATES VIOLENCE
Haneke makes serious films and this is another; the story is about good versus evil, a tale in which evil triumphs and pleasant expectation is lastingly and ... read more »
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- 17 Dec 2011 at 18:52
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Plays Games With The Viewer
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- 09 Dec 2011 at 12:36
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Can't praise this highly enough
As I said above, this film is worthy of high praise, as it manages to do something no other one has even come close to: it manages to show extremely graphic ... read more »
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Where's the Remote..... Oh that's better
This Movie was really really really Bad. I Hoped it World get better but it only made me vemit. I would rather get kicked in the teeth then watch this movie ... read more »
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- 27 Oct 2011 at 23:06
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One word for this
There is only one word I can think of that sums this up, and it is the word that is with me the morning after watching it: pretentious. Very pretentious. Oh and... read more »
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Compelling, odd
VERY WEIRD!!!!!!!,But it's one of those film's you carry on watching' to see if it get's any stranger, and it does
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its all a funny game...
Mentally disturbing. Well directed and acted. Was clever how no violence was really shown but how violence was in the air throughout all the film.
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Funny Games
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Too horrible to watch
It is amazing how ghastly this movie was to watch despite the fact that no violence was shown on the screen. It was so awful that before it finished I had to ... read more »
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Funny Games
A powerfully graphic film (even though no violence is ever shown on the screen itself) about an Austrian family who goes on a country vacation and become the victims of two cold-blooded psychopaths who are out to torture them with their "funny games." Haneke's point, that fictional violence is as ...
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