{"id":280,"date":"2008-04-08T15:30:17","date_gmt":"2008-04-08T22:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/04\/posted-because-naomi-watts-is-hots\/"},"modified":"2008-04-08T15:39:43","modified_gmt":"2008-04-08T22:39:43","slug":"posted-because-naomi-watts-is-hots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/04\/08\/posted-because-naomi-watts-is-hots\/","title":{"rendered":"Posted Because Naomi Watts Is Hots"},"content":{"rendered":"

from Guardian UK<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Funny Games<\/h1>\n

\"****\"\u00a0(Cert 18)<\/font>\u00a0

Peter Bradshaw\u00a0The Guardian<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

\"Funny
Double take … Naomi Watts and Michael Pitt in Funny Games, the 2008 version <\/font><\/p>\n

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Michael Haneke’s new movie is an Americanised replica-remake of his 1997 cult shocker Funny Games: just as before, it’s an icy ordeal of sadism, a macabre vivisectional experiment in pure cruelty, practised upon a bland upper-middle-class family – two parents, tousle-haired kid, adorable dog – which thinks itself safe in its prosperous cocoon. And just as before, it caused my stomach muscles gradually to contract to about a sixth of their original volume. Repeat performance this may be, but its brilliance and technique and ingenuity are still in a different league from anything else around. It is horrifying, genuinely horrifying, in a way that regular horror films never are, and somehow never expected to be.<\/p>\n

PJ O’Rourke once wrote that there are two kinds of dangerous: fun-dangerous, like speedboats and race-cars, and not-fun-dangerous, like open-heart surgery or the South Bronx. Haneke is a great believer in making us experience the second kind of dangerous. What his target American audience will make of this is anyone’s guess: maybe the National Rifle Association will use it as a recruitment video. Or maybe it will be the surprise smash of 2008 and Haneke can franchise it out to every foreign-language territory in the world.<\/p>\n

It is famously not explicit in the usual sense: you don’t see the actual gory impacts. But it is explicit in a far more horrible way, making us live through the anticipatory fear, and giving us a closeup view of the victims’ horror and despair. The critical convention with violent movies is to compare them to Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange, and there is an obvious similarity here: after a while, you will feel, like Malcolm McDowell’s punished delinquent, that you are watching with your eyelids clipped open.\u00a0<\/p>\n

[ click to read rest of review at Guardian UK<\/a> ]<\/p>\n

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