Funny Games (Michael Haneke, 1997)
Rating: 9.7
Funny games is a brilliantly complex self-reflexive film that analyzes itself within the film. Two young boys begin terrorizing an affluent family with sadistic games. The killers communicate with the audience sporadically acknowledging that the spectator is in fact watching a film, but also an accomplice to the crimes while simultaneously, identifying with the family and suffers along with them. Interestingly enough the film sort of mocks or at least reproaches the media and films like Hostel among others (although Funny Games was made before), along with the viewers for becoming so desensitized to violence. It's a unique cinematic experience and incredibly well acted and intellectually stimulating.
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