Why Are Michael Haneke Films So Unsettling?

Benny’s Video features some of the most disturbing, bleak and hopeless scene in the history of films.
The one where the boy’s parents talking to each other about dismembering a girl’s corpse who’d been killed by their son. The lacks of music, muted colors, and the performances works so effectively during that scene. It makes me so uncomfortable just thinking about it.

Happy End is one of the best films I’ve ever seen.

I’ve seen most of his movies but not Code Unknown yet

The Seventh Continent is so difficult to reckon with; the darkness is all encompassing . Apparently people seeing it in the theater lost their minds when he flushes all the money down the toilet; there’s something so poignant about that. I also love his Kafka film The Castle; and the way John Zorn’s music works in Funny Games. An Auteur that I have to force myself to watch his films; because that’s why he made them.

i know this is old but this video is so incredible. Haneke is my fav filmmaker and this just is perfect

What song did you put when “michael haneke” text?? I'm very desperate, I've tried to find the soundtrack of Benny's video for example, and I can't find it, it's very difficult to find the songs that Haneke uses in his movies :(

Watching Funny Games (although the remake) actually gave me minor panick attack. Home invasion subgenre is the most terrifying of horror with the sense of "it could happen to you". Great movie, but never gonna rewatch.

Hats off for you watching haneke's movie b2b in three days dude..

A week ago I'd never heard of this director or seen his work. Oh, how those were simpler times.

Y’all weak 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Oh man... you should warn about spoilers !!!!

beautiful

Such a good ending to this video 😂 loved it from beginning to end

Want to commend you for avoiding the word "trope" in your---admirable as always---presentation. I can't quite put my finger on it but there is something spellbinding about your work. There are the "smarts" of course, and the evenness of the narration, a communication of dedication and an authenticity. It is not the first time I have left a video of yours feeling more calm and more settled.

why watch something that makes you uncomfortable, on purpose?? I don't get it?

Heineke is my fav director. Ty for this

Love the ending

marathon watching all haneke films is one of the best cinematic experiences you can have ever

I love cerebral, unusual, disturbing, and unsettling films. Thanks for this thorough and well-presented analysis. I've never seen a Haneke film. I will be sure to avoid wasting my time on a single one of them.

In Haneke's world there is before violence, there is violence and there is after violence...

Haneke wants to make the viewer uncomfortable.
I read that he went to see Pulp Fiction and was appalled when the audience found it amusing when Marvin was killed. This basically prompted him to make Funny Games: to make viewers uncomfortable.

lmao!!!!!! Dude!!!!!!!!! the ending!!!!!!!!🤣

sounds like fun 👎

Never heard of them or qny of these

A lot of these start to feel like someone desperately trying to gross you out and confuse you. It gets old, like Lars Von triers films that have just become murder porn and pretty boring once you look past the shock value that their driving for

Per favore lascia il pacco vicino alla porta. Grazie!

I m glad it took me a reasonable amount of time to figure out what factor made his films SO difficult to watch, They are long, slow, and mostly boring, I've seen paint dry and..... ?!?! 🤔

I decided after 4 Haneke films that he was an evil mind fucker that i would no longer follow. 😂

NIIIICE!

Funny games broke me… even though most of the violence was implied it was by far the most vicious movie ive ever seen and ive seen some dark movies. It felt like that movie hated its audience and rubbed it in our faces with the meta narrative and idk if thats a good thing. I appreciate what it was doing but at the same time i felt victimized by it and I feel like just as with a predatory animal you’ve got to respect it at a distance and stay away from it.

all of his films in three days? youre tough.

I was too fixated watching the film to hear what the narrator was saying.

sounds/looks way better/smarter than twerp Lynch

Great filmmaker, I have seen all his features, including the TV made The Castle (very faithful to Kafka’s novel), except the American Funny Games (what’s the point of that, Haneke? Stick to the Austrian original) and Happy Ending (his last movie as far as I know). The only film of his that didn’t convince me was Time Of The Wolf, where in his typical miserable manner he tries at the end (and fails) to have the depth of Tarkovsky. Otherwise, a master, without the graphic horror of Noe or Von Trier, but equally horrifying in his restrained style.

Tedious.. Just watch the movies and make of them what you want. The age of deconstrutivism shall see the dust, as the genuine spirit arises

"Caché" is one of my all time favourites. However, you have to know something about the Paris Massacre of 1961. While only being mentioned in passing, it's the key underlying plot driver. France is in denial about this event, so it perfectly fits Haneke's challenging MO. He's a superlative moralist sometimes, IMHO. Perhaps seldom as overtly as in this film.

Michael haneke is one of my favorite directors ever… we used to joke about having a “feel good” film festival with just him and Lars Von trier movies 😂

Funny games is so terrible it's fun to get people to watch it and realize by the end that they just absolutely wasted two hours of their life.

He doesn't really do anything with his films that haven't already been done. But when you rub an audience in an odd direction it has a much more lasting effect. Of course this sort of thing doesn't make you a good film maker.

Because they suck?…

BEST DIRECTOR EVER

thinking of starting to watch his films, which one should i watch first

because he makes movies about things nobody in their right mind would want to see?

I have no desire to watch any of his films after seeing this.

why the films are so unsettling ?
well, my first guess would be because they were made by a glorified nutcase.
but what do i know, plumbers aren’t exactly know for their cinematic expertise.