As much as I hate that movie, and believe me I do hate that movie more than any other film that I have seen in my life, I must admit that is an extremely effective film. The nauseating, appalling, excruciating effect that it produces to the viewer is one that I have never felt in another film. Haneke has stated that his film is a criticism of the violence that is used in media. I didn't feel that I was watching a film that criticized or satirized the violence in media. And if violence in media is Indiana Jones killing Nazis or the Bride in Kill Bill killing Bill then I do dig that kind of violence and I don't consider it harmful, distasteful and dangerous in any way. On the other hand Haneke's movie goes so deep in violence and gruesome images that I really wonder why in the first place must I endure that movie and what did he expect to achieve with a film like this one?
Although Funny Games can be described in one sentence, a family is been tortured by two psychopaths, the detail and the sadism that the film features is something to be taught in film schools. There are numerous scenes where you wish that you hadn't rent that movie or that now is the time to press the fucking stop button and throw the fucking film out of the window. I never really got why that is interesting and effective in that movie. I never got what the movie was trying to say, I never liked the way the movie unfolds and I don't enjoy been butchered when I watch a movie. I understand to get disturbed for a reason that I understand, but making a horrid movie where there is no clear comment, message, reason and finally goal, is not my idea of a movie at all. I also never liked Haneke's movies in general, but with this one he really made me terribly angry. For all of his movies that I dislike this is by far his worst.
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