tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5394152446586654355.post5602121073442668277..comments2024-03-21T00:35:42.384-07:00Comments on CRITICAL WOMEN ON FILM: Funny Games: A Different ViewCritical Women, Prairie Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03939987052158617459noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5394152446586654355.post-46231308069491521782008-03-13T10:27:00.000-07:002008-03-13T10:27:00.000-07:00Thank you for the appropriately morally outraged f...Thank you for the appropriately morally outraged film review. I write for DVDTalk.com, and increasingly, I'm beginning to wonder where, exactly, the outrage is for these increasingly nihilistic exercises in snuff torture.<BR/><BR/>Excellent review.<BR/><BR/>Best regards,<BR/><BR/>Paul Mavis<BR/>DVDTalk.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5394152446586654355.post-27977453635442627742008-03-12T07:58:00.000-07:002008-03-12T07:58:00.000-07:00Good day to you, my name is Jamaal. I was watching...Good day to you, my name is Jamaal. I was watching the Showtime hit TV show "Dexter" that they're running on CBS earlier tonight, and was a little taken a back that they would be showing some of the things on "regular" TV, regardless of the hour. Having read the book, I was familiar with some of the places certain plot lines were headed and half heartedly watched wondering how they would let it play out and BAM they just went with it, no brakes...Now, with that withstanding, no sooner than I said quote: "how far will we go" the commercial for "Funny Games" came on and I just about lost it!<BR/><BR/>It was no more than a 60 second promo, highly stylized, artfully looking, but just images of just latent disturbing violence, just utter violence, inter spliced with praises of "Brilliant" "Masterfully Chilling", "...so and so so (director) has out done himself". What the heck, what the heck?!?!?!? So, because, maybe, perhaps, by some odd chance, I missed it, maybe it is indeed about something else and the ads just show the parts that will sell. So I google the movie and, no, the movie is about killing. Blatant, random people selection killing? I found your review to be one of the few that said the movie was disturbing, if you would be so kind as to give me any further insight or if you a like a more, if there is, review of the film. I have two younger sisters, 13 and 11, one of which is going in to high school, the other middle next year. I try to make it a point to keep up with as much as her friends and other kids might just be watching and having to grow up seeing. Not to block it, but just to be prepared, and somewhat educated on what kids and adults are watching, so that when school shootings happen, It's not such a shock, the signs are here. I also write as a performance poet here in the area, and like to sometimes share things like this with my audiences, so that people are better educated as well as to the actual world we live in.<BR/><BR/>Feel free to email me at your leisure, Or if perhaps you are too busy, that is understood. I thoroughly enjoyed your article.<BR/><BR/>JamaalAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5394152446586654355.post-47619068455137700052008-03-12T07:45:00.000-07:002008-03-12T07:45:00.000-07:00Ms. Miller:I just wanted to let you know that I re...Ms. Miller:<BR/><BR/>I just wanted to let you know that I read your review for the movie “Funny Games” and I feel that you were able to express very succinctly the discomfort that our society’s eager acceptance of these ‘torture porn’ movies makes me feel. I too am disturbed that people are able to gain enjoyment from wallowing in the suffering of others, and it’s great to hear a sane voice stand out and make a comment on the fact that people are doing just that. This all reminds me of the use of Michael Madsen’s character in Reservoir Dogs. I enjoyed the movie, although the torture scene there hit a nerve with me (and still brings on a wave of nausea, thinking about it [the mind state behind an enjoyment of sadism]), I understood that was a part of the character, and was put there to show the true nature of that character. It didn’t detract from what I consider to be a well made story. But that a movie focused almost entirely on that aspect of depravity is well received, I feel that it is indicative of the sickness of our culture in general. I didn’t see “Funny Games”, or Tarantino’s “Death Proof”, nor will I; but I have read about them, and know the plots, and continue to cringe each time one of these movies becomes a box office hit.<BR/><BR/>Wow, I didn’t mean to go on like that, I just wanted to thank you for expressing your feelings in your review, because I agree with them. (I guess that’s pretty lame, now that I think about it, since many people feel as strongly in favor of these types movies, and can send emails to the people that gave the movie positive reviews because they agree with them, but there it is… I’m not a writer, after all).<BR/><BR/>RickAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com