So many people here are angry at this film - how did they let the bad guys just kill everyone, how could they kill a child, why didn't the family fight back, what the hell was this rewind scene!
If you feel such emotions about this film, then you are reacting exactly as Haneke (the director) wanted you to react. Going against your expectations and making you angry was exactly the point of this film.
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I'm not angry. I'm disappointed. It's not as if "evil wins" is some inspiring original concept (although, of course, one can make the claim that Haneke's approach does still feel relatively "new"). Such a shame that the intense nightmarish vision and tone that Haneke develops with such poise and grace during the two hours had to amount to fairly little in the end. Just a cold, intellectual exercise aimed at punishing the audience for being voyeurs in the household's violent, sadistic experience... rather than something more concrete about human nature, mortality, tragedy, and emotional devastation. Oh, it may be clever, well-crafted and even wink-wink funny (as it is when Paul is breaking the fourth wall or ostentatiously using some cartoonish rewind feature to reverse a short-lived moment of excited relief and triumph experienced by the audience)... but it could have been so much more. You don't make Watts act like that only for teaching some f-cking lesson to the gore-craving audience. 5.5/10
Clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose.
Yup, you did get this one right, Maz. As I´ve probably said before, instead of cooking up this lesson that´s of no use to anyone, it would have been much better if Haneke had just made an honest straight-forward horror chiller. Judging by the way he cranks up the intensity and a sense of claustrophobia, he certainly seems to know how.
"facts are stupid things" - Ronald Reagan
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This movie is fantastic on so many levels. I have to admit that the trailer led me to believe it was something completely different, but I was riveted to my seat from the onset.
I found the most chilling moment of the film was when Anna asks "Why don't you just kill us?" and Peter replies with "You shouldn't forget the importance of entertainment". It was at that moment you realize that this family is so
****ing ****ed.
While I wouldn't classify this as a true horror film, I found it more frightening than almost any other film I've watched, and I am fan of horror flicks. Breaking the fourth wall only drags you in deeper, in that, the psychopath is conversing with you.
You ain't got a license to kill bookies and today I ain't sellin any. So take your flunky and dangle
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You ain't got a license to kill bookies and today I ain't sellin any. So take your flunky and dangle