OMG I'M GOING TO EXPOSE OUR MODERN UPPER CLASS CAPITALIST

>>82972051
lol you should read Bernhard sometimes. Austrians are fucking crazy.

Haneke is shit
Götz Spielmann is much better

>>82972240
tell your remark during the next Cannes festival
>>82972051
>implying it's not true

>>82972279
>implying it is
Western life has infinitely more meaning than life in Africa. Fact.

>>82972051
i thought it was about the end of the cold war viewed through the gift of death

he never offers any alternatives, just beats you over the head

>>82973350
can not wait for Happy End

>>82972957
did ya even watch the movie?

>>82972051
faggot

Seventh Continent is Haneke's only good film

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What does it mean?

>>82972117
I love Bernhard, have you read Amras?

>>82974244
No. Everything in google about it is in Spanish or German. What is it about?

>>82974367
It's about two brothers, one of them has epilepsy. It's the weirdest and most surreal of Bernhard's books, it almost reminds me of Borges at times, and it was his last and his best according to him.
Really should pick it up if you can find a translation in your language.

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>>82972051
>FUCK THE BOURGEOISIE!

>Lol Marxism look how smart I am xD
Every "intelligent" film ever

>>82973714
yes
very derridian imo

>>82975354
elaborate...

>>82975553
well i thought it was about tensions of the working class life in 1989, few months before the mauerfall, however while undeniably inspired by nihilism (not really by nietzschean ethics though), i thought of it more as derridian take on religion, but it was so subtle i could be entirely wrong
i didnt mean derridian as in deconstruction btw

i saw the film ages ago, but i do remember the little girl praying every night at the same time, and the day they commit sudoku, the event that triggers it is when the girl sees the time and starts praying, or asks the mom to start a prayer, i franky don't remember. this to me was very similar to the gift of death, in which derrida talks about sacrifice and suicide, talking also about christian religion and prayer

even tho the film is austrian, and is also inspired i think by austrian literature, as some anon pointed out, i still thought of it as haneke's take on capitalism/east-west germany et al

but also this was based on a real austrian family that committed sudoku so idk maybe haneke just wanted a film based on a true story as a debut but i doubt he wouldn't include his own philosophy on death, western civilization, moral, capitalism, etc
feel free and please debate this

excuse the shitty punctuation

>>82976069
oh, okay, when you said derridian I immediately thought about deconstruction, and I even started thinking of them taking apart 'deconstructing' their house, but that's not what you mean apparently.

Well Haneke says himself it was about the family, I kinda agree with the OP that it's about the desensitization of modern society and this can also be said of Benny's video and Funny games, but I don't see how it's a critique of the bourgeois or how it relates to capitalism, I guess somebody ought to explain this better unless you know of a source.

Haven't read that book but my experience with Derrida is that I often read his ideas into a lot of films, they often fit very well, I know this might be difficult because his books are not exactly easy to elaborate on, but what specifically does he say about prayer/sacrifice that made you think of that scene or the film as a whole? You definitely might be onto something here.