■Title: "Fun Game"
■Director: Michael Haneke
■Starring: Tim Rose, Naomi Watts
■Release Date: March 14, 2008 (United States)
■Reader: Europa
■Recommendation index: ★★★★★☆
■One sentence comment: When the audience intervenes in the narrative of the film and is crazy about it, Haneke is sneering. If possible, you should finish watching the film before reading the text below.
Generally, directors will not easily remake their own works. They will reveal two pieces of information. One is the decline in creative ability, and the other is purely considering commercial factors. Like Shichuankun, who passed away at the beginning of the year, a remake of "The Clan of Inu God Family" 20 years ago to commemorate. On the whole, it looks the same, but the spirit is no longer there. It is more reliable to leave the remake of tribute to later generations.
Hollywood remakes films from other countries and acquires script adaptation rights are numerous, but the directors of the original country generally refuse the opportunity to direct them again and again. Thrillers and horror movies are a category that Hollywood is interested in. It is probably because American audiences are relatively unintimidated, or they may be too scared by the repetitive blood flow, and the senses are numb. Unlike Japanese and Korean horror movies and karma, American audiences are still in a state of curiosity and incomprehension. Now Michael Haneke has chosen to revert his own horror classics. Quite interesting. Haneke chose to make "Great Happiness", which is more of the second consideration mentioned in the previous paragraph. The American version uses English dialogue and uses well-known actors. Whether it is screened or released, there is no threshold for North American audiences. This is the most practical reason.
Haneke's "Happy Heart" participated in the 1997 Cannes Film Festival, the film is of the kind of polarized evaluation of good and bad. Some viewers couldn't put it down, others hated it. Compared with "Dodge" ("Hidden Camera"), which won the Best Director Award in Cannes in 2005, the shots of "Happiness" are not dull, and the narrative rhythm is very enjoyable. Unfortunately, the film also triggers the audience's physical and psychological disgust, which is really ironic. What’s even more ironic is that after ten years, "Fun Games" strictly remakes "Happy Heart" in a strict sense. The careless audience removes the cast and dialogue language, and can’t find the difference in lens connection and screen fragments, so even if the following "Fun Game" was replaced with "Happy Heart" together and said, in fact, it doesn't matter much.
There is a kind of "good people culture" in the West. A simple example is free-riding. I am afraid that it is not so easy for passers-by in the East to get together. Easterners have more cities. The good intentions of helping people led the wolf into the room instead, and there was no defense line and the murderer came to visit. This led to the story of "Fun Game". Simply put, it was a tragedy caused by four eggs, which developed into a tragic murder. The murderer has been plotting for a long time, waiting for an opportunity to commit a series of crimes. Their crime is not how to use high IQ to play tricks, no conflicts have broken out, they have easily grasped the initiative, and then proceeded in the form of fun games.
Director Haneke also arranged foreshadowing and laid a foreshadowing. At the beginning, there is no transition from the elegant classical music of Handel and Mozart to the violent experimental music of John Zorn. When passing by another house, the husband and wife looked strange. In fact, they were not in a smooth and natural state. The reason was that the story was ghostly. The young people who broke in suddenly, wearing white shirts and white gloves, were named Peter and Paul (the names in the Bible).
The well-to-do and affluent middle class, with villas and yachts, witnessed the nightmare of a family of three on vacation. It cannot be simply classified as an involuntary hatred of the rich and criticizing the middle class. It's just that no one is lucky, why choose them? The character design and plot layout of the film have a complete and rigorous reference system. A more detailed analysis shows that the two female protagonists are traditional blond beauties, to be exact, blond housewives. Such a choice of appearance is meaningful. Blond is regarded as a noble purebred white woman. She is tortured and tortured, which is the best provocation to European and American audiences. Follow this line of thinking (like Naomi Watts's girl role in "King Kong"). If there is an Asian version, this housewife character with a strong sense of motherhood will be shown in another weak face.
The story of "Fun Game" is actually not interesting at all, and it does easily arouse public outrage. The two young men looked polite and humble, but they thought about torturing you politely. Fun games have no logic, no tricks. Only one-sided cooperation will give you color if you don’t. The success of the film's screenwriter is to capture the audience, and he puts the audience in an embarrassing and ridiculed position. If the audience wants to witness a happy ending and refuse the arrival of nightmares, the fatal blow effect of "Fun Game" is particularly obvious. The story did not produce drama or tragedy. At the end of the open end, the two young men continued to commit crimes at ease. The audience had to completely give up resistance and was thrown into the lake like Anna.
The endings of the two films are exactly the same, in which young people stare directly out of the screen, staring at the stop-motion shots of the audience. Obviously, the audience was placed in an interactive position unknowingly in this film. Although they could enter the play while watching the film, they did not expect that the director would make a bad idea.
With the help of the ubiquitous media, who is exaggerating violence. While criticizing the violence, while allowing it to wreak havoc. The human heart is a contradiction, abhors violence, but it cannot really prevent it from happening. Violence between people is inevitable. Through some occasions, they seek another kind of pleasure that violence can bring. "Fun Games" simply let the initiators of the violence come from mental patients, and the well-dressed spectators are their helpers in perpetrating violence.
Unprepared audiences may suffer severe shocks, even if they are sitting in front of the screen and not really participating, they may be gloating. Haneke’s advanced ideas are that he used the audience to ruin them, and transferred the inauthenticity of the third party to the ontology's participation. He was concerned about blatant contempt for morality and criticized the media and audience with a remote control. Haneke risked the world, so how can he avoid violence? The fact is that his fascination is deeper than anyone else. The violence in his works is a super shock that erupts from depression. "Piano Teacher" or "Dodge", there is no escape from the blood. If such an in-depth analysis is not required, then "Fun Game" is still a terrifying thriller, used to torture and terrorize the audience.
We must say something lighthearted. In the past ten years, has the waterproof function of mobile phones improved? If there are soft advertisements for mobile phone brands, mobile phone manufacturers will probably be the first to jump out to protest. It seems that with a mobile phone that does not enter water and four eggs that cannot be broken, the story of "Fun Game" can be repeated, and good people can eliminate bad people. The remote is in your hands, throw it away, don't participate in this horrible interactive game in it.
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