Sunday 13 July 2008

Funny Games Film Review



I got a chance to watch the American version of the art house film funny games last night which was incredible in its presentation of being almost identical to the original European version made a decade ago and its acting was just as spine chilling as watching a film like salo. I read up on many comments made on the IMDB Internet movie database and was astonished to see the lack of intellectual response to this work of genius. First of all it reminded me of another psychological film I recently watched called pathology which seemed to delve into the relationship between predatory human instinct alongside that of knowledge. In Funny games we see that a psychosis which is evident seems to have formed from humans with a lack of connection to other humans in which they seem to suffer from some kind of egomania that makes me feel sorry for them in a strange way because of there lack of care and compassion for loving people and how families are such a special thing and yet the evil that is presented shows persons with a complete disconnection from humanity and drawn into the theory's of quantum physics which causes the perpetrators of having disillusions with reality acting out a show for each of us to be shocked into an emotional state. The same thing is demonstrated in the film pathology because it shows the lack of empathy through a higher level of knowledge in which knowledge is a key factor in for me the destruction of feeling and compassion which is swapped for morbid curiosity and lack of connection to humans through having a ego complex which many believe to be the reason for most killings today in that humans who are more higher up in evolution could become more predatory by instinct and madness. And I have just realised that saw films also associate some incredible genius with strong moral standards to be seen as the villain as if his knowledge as unlocked some kind of level where by he needs to fulfill his life by destroying those around him especially with his own impending death making things even more problem for him. So my question is this do you think that the more evolved we become the more likely we are to think ourselfs into the insanity to prey upon the weaker species in the food chain that some films depict.

Those are only my intuitive thoughts on those films and I am not educated enough to say that what my findings are true and they are only my personal observations. As I believe much can be learnt from fiction and film if observed with depth.




1 comment:

  1. I consider the original to be a unique and important film. I don't know that I care to see a clone of it though, but I'm sure it's just as good if not better than the original for those who have not seen it.

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