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fans of haneke are intelligent people

posted 14 years ago by bertdockx
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people who love haneke's films are often very smart, and many people who don't like them are stupid.

that's why it's so hard being intelligent, but not liking haneke's cinema.

[–] panik65 12 years ago

Really? I find him tasteless, overly didactic, ham fisted and tortuously boring.

I don't disagree with his politics either - he is just a third rate artist.

The camera never moves, which is infuriating. The main point of the film is slowly revealed, but trite and didactic - France is screwing over its immigrants - what a revelation! I hated Cache.

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[–] franzkabuki 12 years ago

I think we can be pretty sure the dog in Funny Games was not actually killed; it´s a high profile production in the year of 2007, for crying out loud - there´s no way he´d get away with slaughtering a dog without the animals rights organizations nine inch deep up his ass. Or that he´d even have a chance to kill it in the first place.

"facts are stupid things" - Ronald Reagan

[–] matrix5904 12 years ago

people who like Haneke are the type of people who like to be viewed as intelligent.

His works have all the characteristics of cleverness but if you really read the text, there is never much going on beyond the obvious...

Me, i find more considered intelligence in linklater or Paul Thomas Anderson

[–] windtunneldan 12 years ago

It's almost been three years since you posted this. Did you ever find it funny that no one noticed your second sentence? That most people went off the handle after reading the top sentence. To be fair it looks like it could be a signature.

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[–] bertdockx 12 years ago

To be honest, I don't really know what exactly I was trying to say at the time, or whether I myself even knew back then. I guess it was pretty ambiguous. Something in between an impulsive, politically incorrect remark, a sarcastic joke and an ironic mini-social experiment, maybe? I never reacted much myself, because I thought that would somehow ruin the whole thing. I might be doing just that right now, ruining it :)

Few seem to notice my second statement, it's true. Maybe now that we're talking about it, some more will do.

Anyway, I must say I've enjoyed this thread so far :)
It's all in good fun, ladies and gents! Which doesn't mean it can't be serious at the same time.

By the way, I recently rewatched 'Der Siebente Kontinent', and I thought it was amazing. I didn't like 'Caché' that much though, the last time I watched it.

[–] matrix5904 12 years ago

yeah the second sentence was a rather clever way of trolling fans of haneke

[–] bertdockx 12 years ago

Maybe :)

Or maybe I was trolling people who don't like Haneke, but consider themselves being intelligent nevertheless.

Or I was trolling myself by pointing out that calling myself intelligent (as one could interpret the original post) could be a pretty dumb thing to do. Not to mention arrogant, and therefore not very wise.

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[–] DeclanCochran 12 years ago

Not really. He's incredibly divisive. Bret Easton Ellis, who wrote my favourite book of all time and is clearly incredibly intelligent, doesn't like him. He does see his worth as a film-maker but disagrees with the messages of his films. Swings and roundabouts.

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[–] Osova 11 years ago

To be honest, in real life I have yet to see this theory proven wrong!