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Benny's Video Reviews

  • Lydia 2022-12-17 05:46:58

    "Benny's Videotape"

    The three people in the family lead a prosperous and empty life. His father strictly controls everything in life, but Benny has never received real care. Benny loves to record everything with a camera, and even has a camera at home that records everything outside the window downstairs at any time....

  • Janiya 2022-12-01 20:49:23

    Benny's videotape

    The second part of the glacier trilogy is about a very cold-blooded murder. After the male protagonist accidentally killed a strange woman, he handled the scene casually. When the father learned about it, he handled the corpse in an unusually calm manner, while the mother brought her son. Going...

  • Reyes 2022-11-27 11:08:32

    Video soul, materialized person

    Haneke's film explores the unconsciousness of people. According to psychology, unconsciousness is the result of long-term imperceptibility. Benny has been living in the video of the video for a long time, and his heart has been imaged. Therefore, his numbness to killing has reached a non-verbal...

  • Guido 2022-11-15 18:51:07

    Atomized individuals in post-industrial society

    According to a foreigner, it is a characteristic of the post-industrial era. With the development of industrialization, the original family bonds were replaced by personal relationships. The relationship between parents and children, and between people has changed from familiar relatives to...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Elouise 2022-10-20 12:59:16

    "Benny's Video" is a cold foreign land

    "Benny's Video" is the second film directed by Austrian director Mike Haneke, and the second in the "Glacier Trilogy", which some people classify as a horror film.  Benny is a middle school boy, besides his parents, he has an adult sister. Benny's parents ran a pig slaughterhouse and were from a...

  • Marianna 2022-10-14 22:40:55

    Benny's videotape

    The most shocking scene in the film is that Benny used an air gun to kill the girl he knew outside the video rental store for "no reason." Afterwards, if he just drank water and ate something casually, and flipped through the contents of the girl's bag aimlessly, nothing seemed to arouse his...

  • Scot 2022-10-06 05:52:13

    Bored image; bored heart

    At the beginning of the film, the "main ingredient" of this dish was put on the video tape showing the cruel scene of the shooting of piglets. The violent and cruel video is in sharp contrast with the underage protagonist's calm and even indifferent expression. This boy who was cold-eyed about the...

  • Nicole 2022-10-04 18:54:29

    "Benny's Videotape": My dear, our child killed someone, what should we do?

    It's not that I don't understand, the world is changing fast. In this increasingly restless world, of course, there are also more and more restless children. There are bear children every year, especially in recent years. But more terrible than the bear child is that the bear child committed a...