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'Games' pokes fun at violence-hungry viewer

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Director Michael Haneke wants to make you think. Hell, maybe even consider what a sick human being you really are.

And so is the purpose of “Funny Games,” the latest by the Austrian writer/director, a remake (literally, almost scene by scene, line by line) of the original thriller released to Austrian audiences in 1997.


Posted in General on March 31st, 2008

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