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Money Scene - spoiler!

posted 11 years ago by clubsamwich
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I just watched this movie for the first time last night. Looking to learn more about the plot I accidentally read that the family commits suicide before I sat down to watch.

So, maybe that is why the money flushing scene didn't really affect me. My girlfriend, on the other hand, who was born and raised in poverty-stricken rural China was yelling at the TV screen during the whole scene. It really got a rise out of her that I couldn't believe at the time. After reading up on the movie after watching I understand that scene was supposed to have that effect on people.

The most disturbing scenes for me were the actual execution of the suicides, most importantly the scene with the terribly unsettling breathing. Makes my skin crawl just thinking about that sound!

[–] franzkabuki 11 years ago

Actually, Haneke also found a way to make that scene - as well as scenes of breaking furniture, which normally is amongst the most entertaining passtimes one can imagine - incredibly tedious. All good and fine to make a point how monotoneous everything was, and how obsessive the couple was (always zeroing in on stuff in a close-up), but if you draw every bloody scene out to the max like this, it makes the film itself no less boring than the boredom it depicts. At some point I began to think Haneke is consciously (as well as very SELF consciously - a problem that does plague him from time to time) trying to make a film with the least amount of any recognizable drama in cinematic history.

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