Category: International
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The White Ribbon stuck with me far longer than I thought it was going to. While Michael Haneke’s Funny Games (1997) was effective in making the audience feel like an active participant in the sadistic murder of a family, The White Ribbon was spine-chilling in how it made me akin to a willfully ignorant bystander.…
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I had a very unpleasant time watching Funny Games (1997), which I now understand was the point. Unlike the other films we have seen in this class, director Michael Haneke deliberately sought for the audience to view the violence onscreen as bystanders. This is exemplified by Peter and Paul breaking the fourth wall to interact…
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A Clockwork Orange got deep under my skin. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a film that’s made me so uncomfortable, and I could point to a variety of things within the movie that accomplished in eliciting that feeling, from the graphic rape scene in the beginning to the Ludovico treatment. But I think what’s…
BEYOND THE FRAME 