Chapter 70 Have you seen enough?

My beloved director, Michael Haneke, has several brilliant strokes in his film Fun Games. Haneke's best-known works are "The Piano Teacher" and "Dodge", but the most delicate, clean and uncutting of his films is "Fun Games".The first time he filmed "Fun Game" was in 1997, and he has not yet become famous all over the world for "The Piano Teacher".Although "Fun Games" also appeared at the Cannes Film Festival that year, its identity as an Austrian film prevented it from being seen by more people.So ten years later, he was still unwilling to remake it without changing a single shot, inviting Naomi Watts and Tim Roth to star in it, and it was released by Warner Bros. and released in North America in 2008.

No matter in the old version or in the new version, the evil youth in the movie will suddenly leave the movie scene and look at the camera again and again, as if showing off his achievements and asking for the audience's reaction.Even once, after abusing the characters in the play, he faced the camera and asked: "What do you think?" Reverse the plot (what a stroke of genius).And at the end of the whole play, the two young people are still asking the audience for their opinions: "Is that enough? You want a real ending and a reasonable progress, don't you?" Seeing this, I suddenly understood that Michael Haneke regarded this as a game, and the world in the game is virtual to us, but real to the game.At any critical moment, we can press the stop button to stop everything in this world.Our choice is to continue watching indifferently until the end.It is our attention, our watching, that drives the violence and keeps it going, even if it is only violence in the movies.

Does viewing drive violence?Does it objectively amplify the influence of violence and become their internal fuel?maybe. The perpetrator of the "Pornographic Photos" put the photos on the Internet just because he realized that someone would watch them. Our viewing, attention, and discussion prompted him to spread more photos.The hooligans in Kaiping, Guangdong who raped young girls knew that someone would watch them, so they put the video of sexually abusing young girls on the Internet; It is also a disguised form of attention, which further expands their deterrent power and influence, so that they can carry out the action without looking sideways.In reality, the men who beat their wives on the street became more and more proud precisely because of the crowd watching, even the beating actions and insults became performative.

This is probably the inevitable relationship between us and many things: we are all a link in the chain, both bearing unhappiness and exerting our own influence to make others unhappy; both victims and silent perpetrators.