funny games.

Funny games is the 2008 english-language remake of the 1997 Austrian film of the same name. Original writer/director Micheal Haneke (Cache and La Painiste) wrote and directed, and Naiomi Watts, Tim Roth, and Micheal Pritt star. The film is a shot-for-shot remake of its predecessor, translated into English and set in the United States with different actors. Exterior scenes were filmed on long island. It is about a family who are being torchered by two young boys in their holiday home.

In the scene of this film that I am looking at there two men are torchering the women in the house, in the scene there is one part there is a rewind effect and the rest of the editing being simple ephersizes it more. It tricks us into thinking that there is something wrong with the film. It firstly shows us what we would want to happen, it shows the women shooting the killer but then it rewinds and shows us what actually happens which gives the effect of it not being real. This editing clip is clever and shocking, dissoriating the audience and forcing us to sympathise with the victim. Having the rewind sequence makes the scene alot more powerful.

The two boys voices have a patranising tone as they talk to the victim. He is very calm and does not shout or raise his voice which makes us feel annoyed because we would usually expect them to be angry and shouting at her, but they talk really calmly to her, which is really more torchering then it would be if they were shouting at her. In this scene there is no background music in it, to intensify the audiences emotional response and this is important because we have learnt from other hollywood horrors that music will trigger our emotional responce.