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One of the most pretentious and hypocritical movies ever made


Such a load of crap.

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How is it pretentious and hypocritical?

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It's a movie that claims it's trying to make a message about violence in film while being the exact thing it's critcizing.

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I think its more about audience expectations than violence.

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You might want to say what the director said about it then.

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I dont know what he said, but from watching the movie, and especially the breaking of the fourth wall, as well as the way the characters react to situations, I have always thought that the point, or the message, was for the audience to consider why we watch these types of movies and what do we hope to get out of them.

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Yeah and he does it by commiting the exact same sin he's trying to make a point about.

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Like yvesyves suggested with the no violence comment, for a torture porn type movie, there is very little on screen violence.

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It's still just an hour and a half of a family being subjected to torture and misery. Torture porn doesn't have to nessecarily be gory.

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But why did you watch it?

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Because I had heard it was good. Not the case.

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What I am asking is did you know what the movie was about before you watched it?

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Yes.

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Then again, I have to ask what you expected? I'm not trying to insult you or anything, I'm trying to understand your point of view.

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I guess im trying to say is I just don't agree with the approach the director took in trying to get his message across.

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What is interesting about this movie is that if I remember correctly it has exactly zero violent scene or violence, however still is super dark and brings a lot of chills, personally I really enjoyed it.

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There's literally scenes where people are beat with golf clubs and shot...

Idk what movie you saw.

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haha ok my bad, memory loss, but very very very little violence compared to movies like Saw or Texas chainsaw massacre and so on.

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Just because it's not super gory doesn't make it not torture porn

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I agree, for this type of movie, there was little on screen violence.

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Also OP, have you seen the 1997 Austrian ORIGINAL "Funny Games" by the same director and have you seen any of Michael Haneke's OTHER WORKS?

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