Review of Funny Games (1997) by Kumar R — 22 May 2008
I'd been wanting to see this for years (the original, not the 2007 US re-make), but never quite dared to buy it. Fortunately a friend lent it to me after reassuring me that it wasn't too nasty - he was wrong. It IS nasty, but not in a graphic way.
Similar in vein to 'Last House on the Left' , this is a film about emotional torment and torture.
Answering the door of her family's holiday home, a woman is asked by two excrutiatingly polite young men - dressed all in white, including gloves - if they could borrow some eggs for her neighbours, whom they are visiting. They leave with the eggs, then come back - they've dropped them, can they have some more? This goes on until there are no eggs left.
When they come back AGAIN the woman asks them to leave. They refuse. The husband comes in and does the same - they whack him with a golf club.
Thus begins the tale of a family of three trapped in their own home with these two - who proceed to play cat-and-mouse with the couple and their young son.
This will have you on the edge of your seat, and breathless when the whole thing is over.
Highly recommended.
Apparently the re-make - by the original director - is shot-for-shot, so watch that if you can't be doing with subtitles.
This review of Funny Games (1997) was written by Kumar R on 22 May 2008.
Funny Games has generally received positive reviews.
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