Extended Reading
  • Kacie 2022-04-20 09:01:43

    Sins Hidden Off-Camera

    Will there be a crisis in the seemingly peaceful and orderly life of the middle class? The film tortures us in a slightly suspenseful way and tries to bring our minds into the loop of cracking the question. A hidden camera almost non-violently destroys a middle-class family, and lies, estrangement,...

  • Arielle 2022-04-19 09:01:59

    social lens

    What the camera glimpses is a divided consciousness: hidden guilt, unease and overt denial, shirk, self-pity. This awareness (camera) is the male protagonist’s personal, but also social and political. It sees the historical causes of the current class and racial issues, and thinks about how to face...

  • Brandon 2022-03-27 09:01:08

    Violence and deception seem to be the themes that Haneke is most keen to express. However, what he refers to is far beyond the surface of the image. I even suspect that he is imagining himself to be a god, setting up all kinds of difficulties to test the existence in this turbid world. All kinds of ugly souls with inferior roots, but at the same time, they have compassion and mourning for their misfortune. Hypocritical pretense can't hide the poisonous sore of selfishness, deceit and accusation, the blood spurting out for the broken jade, is the ultimate accusation.

  • Trace 2022-03-27 09:01:08

    Moral experiment, political metaphor. The creative methodology is rational.

Caché (Hidden) quotes

  • Georges Laurent: Isn't it lonely, if you can't go out?

    Georges's Mom: Why? Are you less lonely because you can sit in the garden? Do you feel less lonely in the metro than at home? Well then! Anyway, I have my family friend... with remote control. Whenever they annoy me, I just shut them up.