Which Film Ruined It? Funny Games How Did It Ruin It? Through exposing the horrific potential of home invasion. The main point of Michael Hanekes Funny Games was to bring attention to the way in which audiences readily and impassively digest violence in film. Depicting a bourgeois family who are slowly tortured in their holiday home by two young men, Funny Games frequently utilises one of the perpetrators - Paul - to directly address the viewer and break the fourth wall. The pair set to work playing a grim selection of sickening games with the family The films whole voice has an evil wink, and it is this very same mannerism that Paul cheekily gives to the audience whilst directing Anna to the location of the familys unbeknownst to her murdered pet. With the mother and father battered and defeated, Paul tells them that theyre not even up to feature film length yet, before turning to the camera and asking Do you think they have had enough?. Funny Games has a lot on its mind and an unconventional agenda, but that still doesnt stop it being nasty enough to scare the s**t out of you. Peter and Paul never explain any sort of motive for attacking the family, and the torture goes on for so long that by the end you yourself are almost begging for them to stop. Surely Hanekes intention. If youre ever in a holiday home in a remote location, and a polite neighbour comes by to ask if they can borrow some eggs consider calling for help. That may not make much sense right now if you've yet to see Funny Games. But watch the film, and itll make all the sense in the world.
