"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 brought back a strange little girl and killed the girl unintentionally while playing with his stolen pig weapon, and all this was recorded by the camera that was on. In pain, he had trouble with friends at school, shaved his hair like a prisoner, and finally showed the videotape to his parents. When his father asked the reason, he just said: "I don't know." The parents decided to conceal the facts, the mother took Benny to travel to Egypt, and the father handled the body and follow-up at home alone. While traveling in Egypt, he seemed to have returned to the role of his son, but he did not let go. After returning home, he "betrayed" his parents to the police station. When the police asked him why he came to report the crime, he said, "I don't know." .

People who have no connection with reality only learn about reality through the media; they like to capture images but feel that they can control reality. This is a dangerous illusion. The same thing happened inside a family. The original intention of the director for shooting came from having seen reports of similar murders. The juvenile murderer's manual machine was only "I don't know", and the filming director of the whole film also followed the "I don't know" shooting motive. conduct.

I have a deep memory and the shooting of the scene of the killing of the little girl. The whole shot is only aimed at the screen of Benny’s own camera. All you can see is the screen on the screen. The characters enter and exit the screen, but the sound continues. You can see from the image. Is it real? Several videotape images of the film have appeared twice. This is also a deliberate attempt to give you a concept. The second time is always more real than the first time? The film is more about the real problems of shooting images, including the social nature of the media. Of course, this is not the only cause of the tragedy.

The "Glacier Trilogy" originated from the effect of glaciers, and it also established the characteristics and keynotes of Michael Haneck's subsequent works:

1. Cool colors, clear shots

2. Absence of the soundtrack (or minimalism)

3. Actions instead Psychological activity

4. Simplification of violence

5. Open-ended theme and theme: Art is to magically convey the lies in the truth. Emphasize on expressing the incommunicable interpersonal relationships in reality that is colder than "reality"; happiness is not easy to get, in other words, happiness is fleeting.

2007-11-09

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