Today ''Funny Games''

become complicit in violence

analysis 

funny games was released in 1997, Austrian film of the psychological thriller genre was directed by Michel Haneke, his first appearance was in the official selection of the cannes festival, the film has an American remake released in 2007, but we will focus on its 1997 version.Without the need to really show anything, this film has a great impact on the viewer, a piece of contemporary cinema that can provoke impotence and disgust.

plot

The story is about a small family that decides to spend their vacation in a house by a lake, their neighbors Fred and Eve are already there, Ana, Georg and their young son Georgie have just arrived but their vacation is interrupted by the intrusion of two young men who at first appear polite and like the guests of their neighbors.The problems begin when politeness turns into insistence and then into antipathy, which makes you wonder what his real intentions are, which, to the family's disgrace, soon become apparent. These two guys, Paul and Peter decide to entertain themselves by torturing the family, turning everything into a gambling game, they dictate the rules and the family is forced to participate, during all this we are shown as spectators until at a certain point we feel complicit, not as members of the family but as a stalker forced to witness every act.In a close-up, Paul turns to us and looking at the camera, winks at us. Haneke has expressed that his mission with this action was to reveal to the audience his complicity in images of violence.

Conclusion

    Funny Games plays with the public's expectations and drags us into those situations from which there is no escape in elongated and uncomfortable shots that will be difficult to forget, without regret or morality, so extreme and out of context that the horror becomes shock, the relationship between one and violence

''It will not leave anyone indifferent.''