The impact of Funny Games between the cinematographic audience: an analysis based on the imagetic treatment, the spectator-character and the counter-cinema

Abstract

This paper analyses the movie Funny Games, by the Austrian Michael Haneke, from the true measure of violence existence in reality (HANEKE, 2014); the different precepts of counter-cinema (WHEATLEY, 2009); and the notion of spectator-character, based on the character-spectator described by Deleuze (1990). The objective is to understand why the audience of the movie is induced to reflect about the consumption of violent images as entertainment, one of the intentions declared by the filmmaker in interviews.