No matter that this is a bit of a flawed viewpoint: having the aggressors seem straight out of the O.C. However, Haneke is on record as saying that he always considered Funny Games to be an "American story", as he regarded the use of violence as a form of entertainment to be a specifically American phenomenon.
Moreover, like the original the re-make is a cruel exercise in exposing our fascination with the violence depicted in the media - the "our" specifically meaning the middle classes, comfortable in our existences and oblivious to the horrors of the world. Obviously, we’re not talking about porno flicks, but, rather, the 10 Most Disturbing Home Invasion Movies.When I heard Michael Haneke was re-making Funny Games in America I wondered why: what purpose could it possibly serve? The set-up to both versions is simple in that a bourgeois family is subjected to a torturous ordeal by a couple of ever so polite psychopaths. Several other movies have made it even tougher for us to sit home alone on Friday nights. Kidnapped is a battering ram on one’s nerves, but it’s not the best of its kind. A trio of criminals disrupt a family’s first night in their new home, holding the fam captive until things head south and people die, savagely. The latest entry into horror’s “home invasion” subgenre comes directly imported from Spain: Kidnapped, a vicious assault of a flick that presents its unflinching coldness in 12 single-take sequences (and opens in limited theatrical release, as well as on Video On Demand, this Friday). But, time and time again, cinema has scoffed at such a lily-livered outlook by staging some of the craziest attacks and tensest action right inside households that resemble the ones we lived in as rugrats. Growing up, kids are taught that a person’s house is his or her safe place, the haven where life’s ills can’t infect one’s well-being. As much as we appreciate the wet side of the latter, the former lesson is rather unsettling. And that hot chicks with fake boobies almost always take a shower before dying in some horrific manner. If horror movies and thrillers have taught us anything, it’s that door locks are useless.
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