[Full spoiler, please watch after reading the film]
Refinement of narrative structure:
1. At the beginning of the story, the family representing the interests of the middle class, "A" for short, discussed the mutation of classical music into grind-core music.
2. Encountered "Circular Clue X" on the way-A disarmed and established contact by seeing the seemingly close communication between the friend's family and the perpetrator "B".
3. Three borrowing eggs-triggering the main story. aB intentionally awkwardly smashed the egg. b. The dog had to show up and B broke the egg, causing B to kill the dog. c. The male protagonist refused to borrow the egg and shot B , Causing B to injure A man’s leg. “The emotional route of A woman changed from calm to anger. The cause of B’s offense was that A man did not borrow the third set of eggs and A woman did not let golf play”.
4. "Circular clue X" appears again-seeing the seemingly close relationship between female A and B through another friend's family, so that the friend can get rid of his guard and establish contact.
5. "Why do you do this?" The game starts by questioning. The root cause is from B's family. The mother's selfish monopoly led to the divorce of parents and the bottom of society. Social discrimination destroys B's personality formation-timid and nervous Sensitivity, which transforms into a great anti-social lethality. B’s target of harm is middle-class affluent families, and the motivation for harm is spiritual comfort.
6. Compulsory gambling, the game begins-"Will you die within 12 hours from now to 9 o'clock tomorrow morning?" a. Ask woman A to take off her clothes and check her fat. The ridicule of ". BA's son went to a friend's house on the way before, and found the body "foretelling the fate of A's family/the passing of the gun". When he returned home, he was shot and killed by B. "B's inspiration was because A's son wanted to shoot on the way. Kill B". cA female flees/A male tries to call the police. After both fail, the multiple-choice question designed by B, kill male A with a gun or a knife? The selection method is the prayer of woman A. The classic remote control playback scene is interspersed with the classic remote control-woman A shoots angrily and B changes it to a failed shooting. As a result, the man A died. "During the entire game, B's mockery of his teammates is interspersed Discrimination from society, such as fat/owl/poor understanding, this is a persecutory background.”
7. Three dialogues on board--a. How does the non-material world transition to the normal world? Interspersed plot heroes try to resist the bondage. b. The material world and the non-material world are difficult to communicate, interspersed to kill the heroine. The reason given is too slow/I'm hungry. c. The movie is also a portrayal of life, interspersed plots landed Next.
8. The docking of "Circular Clue X"-B came to the home of a friend who had seen A and B together before, a new round of borrowing eggs. At the end, he broke the fourth wall with a meaningful smile.
The main thrust of the analysis from the perspective of social psychology:
Is Hanek cruel? So what about us who cause the evil cycle of society?
What does the film want to express through the elegant and violent hands? In fact, it is through this extreme method that makes us question, how exactly does this violence and evil arise? And the answer was given early in the first half of the film. Due to the unfortunate childhood of the perpetrator, this misfortune comes from parents, from the family, from the class, and from the entire society, which leads to a change in his personality. The formation of personality is a long process of being tortured. The formation of human personality is mainly derived from genetics, parental education, social environment, natural factors, and early childhood experience. Due to father's alcoholism, mother's doting, parental divorce, and social discrimination The mockery created a cowardly, sensitive and suspicious personality. Such a personality is obviously not conducive to human survival, so he gradually put on himself a white gentle, polite and quiet coat. And this coat is inside. The same derives the evil soul that is opposite to the appearance. This kind of soul has been lurking under the appearance of the teddy bear and ready to go. They need an opportunity, maybe four eggs, or a golf ball. Once touched It will cause great anti-social lethality,
Why are they doing this? So what did you do?
In the film, the contradiction between the bottom society and the middle-class elites worsens. The film weakens the cruelty of the middle-class elites, making us empathize with them and feel sympathy. However, if the alienated bottom-level individual is replaced by an ordinary individual. And What would happen to reconstruct the plot of the original borrowed egg from his perspective? "The first time I borrowed the egg and broke it, the heroine was unhappy and looked decent and not angry. The second time her dog bit my heroine and drove me away mercilessly. The third time the heroine tried to protect the heroine. I didn’t fight back. Wasn’t it just borrowing eggs? Why did you hit someone?” In fact, every time the perpetrator made a move, there was a reason. Before the son died, he wanted to use a gun to kill the perpetrator. Shoot the perpetrator with a gun. Throughout the game, the perpetrator has been mocking his teammates lightly. Before letting the heroine take off his clothes to check the fat, he laughed at his teammates for being bloated and said that he was like an owl. Later, he teased his teammates and said, "Do you look like a child with poor understanding?" These casual words seem to be familiar in life. The perpetrators are like the reappearance of society, like a mirror that allows us to look directly at our own evil. Rousseau Zeng In [On the Origin and Foundation of Human Inequality], it says: "The barbarian lives his own life; while the social man only lives in the opinions of others, therefore, he can only find himself in the evaluation of others. "The meaning of existence", French existentialist philosopher Sartre also said in his philosophical drama [Confinement]: "Others are hell." There is no hype about the growth experience of the perpetrators, but all the violence comes from the source. From social malice. Have you killed someone invisibly while eating cheese, talking and laughing? It's like the butterfly effect. You are so happy listening to the bad words of classical music hurting others, who will pay for my misfortune? Why should I listen to grind the core, just like my inner portrayal, I want to destroy your happiness and beauty, you have everything, maybe it's just pain and death. You are in pain, and want to end all of this, for you Say this is a game that can be ended at any time, but for me, they have never stopped with me in my life. I want you to feel my pain and anger. Because all of this is because of yourself, which constitutes social evil. Part of the cycle.
Haneke’s creative expressions:
What is the significance of the appearance of the remote control?
The most classic scene in the film is that the angry female protagonist raises a gun and shoots the perpetrator to death, but the perpetrator’s teammates use the remote control to retreat. It’s like two different fate endings in parallel time and space. What's the point of doing this? I think it is a contrast between the non-material world and the material world, just like their final dialogue on a ship. The first plot ends with a vengeance and victory like a Hollywood movie, but the second is the blood-stained reality. First, through the first plot, give you a kind of hope of revenge, and then ruthlessly deprive you through the remote control. This contrast undoubtedly intensifies the sense of despair and pain, and this kind of despair is more real. The perpetrator is like a mirror. Isn’t their manipulation of the plot the same as the manipulation of society by the upper-middle class?
Why did the perpetrator break the fourth wall?
"Why do you do this?" "Can you stop it?" This is the question of the victim in the film and the question of the perpetrator to the audience. Shouldn't we in society reflect on whether our characters were also the perpetrators. At the end, the perpetrators face us with a meaningful smile, which is like a provocation. Look, a new round of fun games has begun again, and you like it too.
Narrative structure loop
The interesting aspect of the film’s narrative structure is that a circular clue was designed. From the beginning, the victim family saw the plot of friends, family and the perpetrator communicating together, which allowed the victim to take off some precautions while cleverly increasing the cycle. The connection of the system seems to be accidental, but it is like saying that no one is inevitable. Then the perpetrator designed to let another friend of the victim see the connection between himself and the victim. At the end, the perpetrator came. I have seen the victim and my friend's house before. I started a new round of borrowing eggs, echoing back and forth. This is like a plague, which continues to spread in society. 10 years later Haneke remakes his own film. The movie, the American version of [Fun Game], the interesting thing is that apart from the actor being replaced by an American, the plot and scene scheduling are almost the same as the original 10 years ago. Isn’t this like a vicious cycle in reality?
Hanek's decisive decision
The performance of death in Hanek’s film is amazing, clean and without hesitation, such as the wiping neck suicide in [Hidden Camera], the pillow suffocation in [Love], and the death of the last heroine of the film, the perpetrators are light. With a touch of his hand, the dust disappears between talking and laughing. It is impressive. In his movie world, death is so easy, so what about life in contrast? Haneke’s films are cruel, but we in life are even more cruel.
Finally, when we are listening to classical music, don’t forget that someone is listening to grind the core.
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