The yuppies had no respect **SPOILERS**

In 'Funny Games' (both versions), the wealthy family are invaded, but in 'Storm Warning' it is the wealthy who break into the home of the 'villains'. They then proceed to look down their noses at them even though they've provided them with shelter and generally do everything to get into their bad books, including ruining their marijuana crop.

Notice that yuppies never say sorry and despite being told there are no phones or main roads they keep on asking as if what the boonies say doesn't count.
While in the shower, Pia rather than be relieved they have some shelter, calls her hosts 'cavemen'.

In the first act it is clearly the yuppies who are breaking the rules with their disregard for the privacy of the country dwellers, yet we are supposed to sympathise with them because they are 'cultured' as opposed to the ugly, dirty antagonists. Imagine if the boonies were black - the cold and distant way they are treated by the yuppies could be seen as racism.

The yuppies predictably kill their captors, but of course its OK, because the script has demonised the 'evil' trio and they were 'fighting for their lives'. But by the same token, were not the 'bad guys' equally justified in killing them, as the yuppies placed themselves in a position where it would be foolhardy for the trio to release them. Facing years in prison for the murder they commit and the marijuana crop are they too not in a survival situation?

It's amazing how in movies like this manipulate the watcher into accepting anything the 'heroes' do without question. The people who don't seem to understand where Michael Haneke is coming from with 'Funny Games' should watch this first.