Benny's Video

By Lydia 2022-12-17 05:46:58

"Benny's Videotape"

The three people in the family lead a prosperous and empty life. His father strictly controls everything in life, but Benny has never received real care. Benny loves to record everything with a camera, and even has a camera at home that records everything outside the window downstairs at any time. He likes a self-portrait of the process of killing a pig most. He uses a special weapon to shoot the pig's forehead and he likes to replay it at a slow speed. One weekend when his parents were out, he...

By Janiya 2022-12-01 20:49:23

Benny's videotape

The second part of the glacier trilogy is about a very cold-blooded murder. After the male protagonist accidentally killed a strange woman, he handled the scene casually. When the father learned about it, he handled the corpse in an unusually calm manner, while the mother brought her son. Going abroad to relax, and all of this is recorded minute by minute by the male protagonist’s keen video tape, and the final proof of his crime. The film is obviously not limited to telling about such a family...

By Reyes 2022-11-27 11:08:32

Video soul, materialized person

Haneke's film explores the unconsciousness of people. According to psychology, unconsciousness is the result of long-term imperceptibility. Benny has been living in the video of the video for a long time, and his heart has been imaged. Therefore, his numbness to killing has reached a non-verbal state: after killing someone, sit quietly and do homework! The child is no longer human. Also, just like the unconsciousness of homicide of a girl, it was also unconscious to report the parents to the...

By Guido 2022-11-15 18:51:07

Atomized individuals in post-industrial society

According to a foreigner, it is a characteristic of the post-industrial era.

With the development of industrialization, the original family bonds were replaced by personal relationships. The relationship between parents and children, and between people has changed from familiar relatives to "friends." Parents no longer have majesty or pure love for their children, friends no longer have friendship, and some are just exploring each other like things.

Corresponding to the...

By John 2022-11-08 01:04:47

COM263 Film Blog_Benny's Video

In the earl stage of Michael Haneke's film Benny's Video (1992), the violence in video media show a more obvious impact to human cognition and behavior comparing to the later film like Caché (2005), but still the recognizable style of Haneke as a cold silent observer to use media as a represent of violence and portrays the alienation of people caused by it. The alienation is...

By Frances 2023-09-27 23:02:30

Favorite of the...

By Dagmar 2023-09-14 16:50:13

Much more than just youth. Lots of shocking shots. I just want to see what's going...

By Helga 2023-09-06 02:04:23

Insufficient perversion, more than...

By Laurie 2023-08-19 10:34:09

It can be regarded as a "trilogy of violent images" together with "Videotape Murder" and "Death Essay". The character of Benny portrayed by Haneke does not have the slightest emotion, and seems to regard killing as a game (the subsequent [Fun Game] is also a variation of it). Ubiquitous video tapes and TV broadcast media (throughout the "Glacier Trilogy"), various "frames" (playing screens in the frames) and mirror reflections. Paradoxically, the video tape not only induces indifference and...

By Ismael 2023-08-08 02:16:44

He recorded his story like a third...