Benny's Video Comments

  • Hester 2022-09-21 10:53:33

    So good, I found it when I closed the room. The lack of a cause for the motive to kill also leads to the indiscrimination of the result. Whether the media is an accomplice of the murderer has not been specifically developed. In short, in everyday violence, the videotape played with, gradually developed into a hidden camera in the...

  • Destini 2022-09-17 16:44:16

    A prequel to Haneke's Fun Game. The picture is correct and unbearably...

  • Jaylan 2022-09-08 22:16:21

    After reading it in one breath, I feel a little vomiting, and my self-destructive tendency will explode...

  • Jaqueline 2022-09-08 13:23:29

    The concept is still interesting, but it's really boring when nothing happens in the middle... (although this is part of the...

  • Peggie 2022-06-05 23:31:03

    Maybe it's a communication film. The medium (camera) is first used as an interface to expand the form of film expression, which is a kind of media reflexiveness; as a "window" medium to show the super-real world, people are exposed to the simulacrum reality, and they are accustomed to violence. , And the dissolution of people by the violence shown by the media is entangled with the indifference and selfishness of modern people, which are mutually cause and effect. Violence is cultivated here...

  • Allan 2022-06-05 21:08:48

    8.0/7.2 The sudden violence and sudden emotions of the characters in the film are too late to respond...

  • Dallin 2022-06-05 19:40:30

    C+ / video tape should be the center of media ethics discussion, but this element is always on the surface, so the attitude is also a bit ambiguous. There is no sense of oppression like "Fun Game", nor does it tear apart the questioning of the media and human nature from the outside to the inside. The transformation of different media constructs scattered and overlapping narrators, and the church organ passages are excellent. These days, Haneke feels a bit like Antonioni to some...

  • Kiana 2022-06-05 17:26:05

    The nature of violence in the media and the desire for destruction in the human heart as well as the satisfaction of sexual desire. The content that Haneke discusses is similar to Cronenberg’s "Video Tape Murder", which also involves'violence' but is very different from Cronenberg’s extreme blood. The use of the space outside the painting and the mirror lens inside the monitor creates a lot of blank space on the picture, similar to the character image of Camus’ The Outsider. The “door frame”...

  • Modesto 2022-06-05 16:55:57

    Haneke’s early [Benny videotape] perfectly reflected his cold style and later themes, such as the unprovoked violence and the cover-up of the crimes of his parents by his children. However, its best part lies in the reflection on the paradoxical relationship between the image and the reality: on the one hand, the "fake" of the image confuses the reality and promotes the production of violence; on the other hand, the image records the crime extremely truthfully. The only thing that was...

Extended Reading

Benny's Video quotes

  • [to Benny]

    Vater: You mustn't lie. Is that clear? You can't afford to.

Benny's Video

Director: Michael Haneke

Language: German,English,Arabic,French Release date: February 11, 1993