We watched an interesting movie tonight, for lack of a better word. It is called Funny Games. It wasn’t funny, and let me apologize ahead of time for the vague review – you’ll have to see the movie to understand why I couldn’t write too much about it. I had never heard of it before, but it was a thriller, so my husband suggested it. If you like thrillers, see it and then tell me what you think. I don’t really know what to say about this movie. It was captivating and VERY tense, so I was never bored, but I was disappointed with the way it ended. For one thing, I did not understand the movie.
Let me back up and give a quick synopsis. Naomi Watts stars as a mother who, along with her husband and son are held captive by 2 very well-spoken young men in their remotely secluded (of course it’s secluded – this IS a thriller movie!) vacation home. As I said, the movie is very intense but only after what is a somewhat slow start. I don’t want to spoil anything, so I will just say that are no words for what happened in the last 40 minutes of the movie. Near the conclusion, it took a turn for the confusing, and what happened made me not really understand the entire movie. It’s based on an Austrian film, and imdb.com said that the American guy who remade it didn’t change much from the Austrian version, so maybe it didn’t translate well? I liked the movie, for the time being anyway while I was watching it, but I would really like some insight about a certain event that took place… it might actually be a thriller I would watch again, which is rare, but I might want to see if I can get what I must have missed. Like I said, if you’re a big fan of suspense movies, I would try this one, it’s definitely different from all the others! And if you have seen it or do see it, make sure you try to fill me in on what I missed, cuz I just didn’t get it!
