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Funny Games [I]s by any measure a shocking film experience. According to some critics, it is ... a shockingly contradictory film experience. This may be the case because the film is not meant to be "mere" entertainment, but a critique of entertainment, mass media and mainstream cinema generally. Funny Games is purposefully shocking rather than enchanting, and it is meant to question the use of violence, rather than to actually use violence, as a major narrative element. Yet in the view of some, the film fails in its ethical pursuit because it invites the spectator to empathise with the protagonists. For example, Jari Lindholm, a film critic for Helsingin Sanomat (the biggest newspaper in Finland), writes that:
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Michael Haneke's remake of his own Funny Games is a great movie. It's ... a great film. It's also a great piece of commentary on film. It's hard to say which Funny Games stirs up more -- your guts, or your brain. There's a line about how the film criticism of Manny Farber "played both brows against the middle." Funny Games smashes lowbrow violent entertainment and highbrow thoughts about violent entertainment into each other, hard, over and over again until the resulting wreck of bone and flesh and blood glistens like a sharp-edged gem.
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In this clip from the new thriller Funny Games, sadistic Paul (Michael Pitt) leads Anna (Naomi Watts) on a twisted hunt to find her missing dog. In theaters February 15, 2008. For more info, visit: http://wip.warnerbros.com/ <less
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Conceptually, Funny Games should be lauded, as it succeeds in its intent to bully the viewer. But my mistreatment in watching this film encourages me to cite what I think are some of the more admirable qualities in horror, each of which is absent in this film: comedy, predictability, the sudden blood pressure that amounts when someone’s limb is excised, and the fountain of blood that the wound produces. These traits enable horror as an escapist genre—Funny Games, conversely and although quite horrific, offers no escape.
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"Still, Funny Games deserves to be seen on the big screen. Whether or not you’ve seen the original, take the trip out for this. It packs a wallop, makes you think and is guaranteed to stay under your skin long after the movie has ended. All the marks of a really great horror film." ...Read More
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An American remake of the film... entitled Funny Games, is scheduled to be released in early 2008. It stars Tim Roth and Naomi Watts, and is also directed by Michael Haneke.
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