In Michael Haneke's Funny Games, a pair of teenage boys in tennis clothes appear at the gate of a German family's country home and make themselves at home. What follows is an hour and a half of some of the most gruesome psychological horror ever committed to film. The boys take to torture like fishes to water, turning this mother, father, and son into their own personal toys with a kind of cold demeanor that makes their actions feel all the more cruel. However, as much as this film is designed to disgust and shock the audience, it is almost never about what the boys are doing to this poor family, it's about our complicity in the act of consuming torture for entertainment. As these...
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