Funny Games

This film (as well as his director Michael Haneke) is very controversial, many people find it either a masterpiece or a trashy film. To do this review, I had to wait 3 days to have a good opinion about it because with this kind of film, it is very easy to say it’s a masterpiece or piece of trash. Funny Games is a movie that leaves you thinking with one question inside your head: WTF? But the real intention of Haneke is to ask you this question: Why I’m still watching this film? In this review, I’m going to explain the purpose of Funny Games for those who didn't understand it instead of reviewing the movie, still, I’m going to say a few words about the film. The first 30 minutes are perfect, very tense and scary, as the movie goes on, it loses some tension and can get a bit boring (but I’m talking about 8/10 minutes). Technically, the film is great as well as the performances of everyone and the direction behind the camera is masterful. To understand the purpose of Haneke we need some context: in the 90s and early 2000, the cinema genre Slasher was at his prime. Slasher movies are those with brutal murders, serial killers, and stuff like that, with a lot of blood. The main examples are Saw, Halloween, Friday the 13th … The problem of these movies is they get you used to extreme violence and it makes you naive in the face of it. Also, it was the beginning of video games. Haneke saw all this and in 1997 he made Funny Games to show people how “ill” we are. Haneke made a slasher movie without any scenes showing a murder or something, he did this to make people wonder: Why do I want to see this movie? Why do I want the characters to suffer to survive? Why when the movie seems to end, I don't want it to end? At the end of the film, you become as villain as the murders. I found it very powerful this message. Funny Games is very tense, uncomfortable and strange, but at the same time, it's necessary to make us reflect on how violent our society is. Punctuation: 4/5