Benny's Video Comments

  • Frances 2023-09-27 23:02:30

    Favorite of the...

  • Dagmar 2023-09-14 16:50:13

    Much more than just youth. Lots of shocking shots. I just want to see what's going...

  • Helga 2023-09-06 02:04:23

    Insufficient perversion, more than...

  • Laurie 2023-08-19 10:34:09

    It can be regarded as a "trilogy of violent images" together with "Videotape Murder" and "Death Essay". The character of Benny portrayed by Haneke does not have the slightest emotion, and seems to regard killing as a game (the subsequent [Fun Game] is also a variation of it). Ubiquitous video tapes and TV broadcast media (throughout the "Glacier Trilogy"), various "frames" (playing screens in the frames) and mirror reflections. Paradoxically, the video tape not only induces indifference and...

  • Ismael 2023-08-08 02:16:44

    He recorded his story like a third...

  • Halle 2023-07-25 12:37:37

    The second part of the Glacier trilogy, compared to the first, is heaven and...

  • Saul 2023-07-18 22:47:41

    It is now more prescient to look at the film, people have become more addicted to the image and the production, dissemination and viewing of the image has become easier. But apart from faithful recording and dissemination, the relationship between images and violence has not changed...

  • Green 2023-07-07 13:17:13

    It's actually quite interesting, but the director wasn't very good at that time. Now he can take pictures of things that are not so...

  • Christopher 2023-07-01 05:14:53

    Calm and restrained killing is like calm and restrained...

  • Halie 2023-06-22 19:42:38

    When human nature is overshadowed, it is gentler than angels. As for when the gods broke out, don't ask me, I don't even know about the...

Extended Reading
  • Sanford 2022-10-27 15:16:19

    Ambiguous cold violence

    From the final chapter of this early glacier trilogy, we can see the prototype of many classic works and the themes that run through all Michael Haneke's film works. The video at the beginning of the scene is familiar, and it is exactly the same as the beginning of "Hidden Camera"; does the scene...

  • John 2022-11-08 01:04:47

    COM263 Film Blog_Benny's Video

    In the earl stage of Michael Haneke's film Benny's Video (1992), the violence in video media show a more obvious impact to human cognition and behavior comparing to the later film like Caché (2005), but still the recognizable style of Haneke as a cold silent observer to use media as a represent...

Benny's Video quotes

  • [to Benny]

    Vater: You mustn't lie. Is that clear? You can't afford to.