Funny Games เกมหฤหรรษ์ วันหฤโหด (2007) ⭐️ 6.6/10

Funny Games เกมหฤหรรษ์ วันหฤโหด (2007)
Funny Games (2007)
R | 1h 51min | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 4 April 2008 (UK)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0808279/

Director: Michael Haneke
Writer: Michael Haneke
Stars: Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Michael Pitt

Funny Games U.S. เป็นการนำเอาสุดยอดภาพยนตร์ระทึกขวัญในปี 1997 จากออสเตรเลียมานำเสนอใหม่อีกครั้ง โดยฝีมือของ ไมเคิล ฮาเนเก้ จอร์จ (ทิม รอธ) และแอน (นาโอมิ วัตส์) พร้อมด้วยลูกชาย จอร์จี้ (เดวอน เกียร์ฮาร์ท) ใช้เวลาช่วงวันหยุดมาพักผ่อนที่บ้านพักริมทะเลสาป ทว่าความสงบในวันหยุดของพวกเขาต้องยุติลง เมื่อปีเตอร์ (บราดี้ คอร์เบท) และพอล (ไมเคิล พิทท์) เพื่อนบ้านหนุ่มโรคจิตทั้งสองคนได้จับตัวจอร์จและครอบครัวกักขังไว้ พร้อมกับบังคับให้เล่นเกมอันแสนจะทารุณซึ่งปีเตอร์และพอลเป็นผู้คิดขึ้นมา โดยทั้งจอร์จและครอบครัวไม่เต็มใจจะเล่นเลยแม้แต่นิดเดียว

Funny Games (2007)

George and Ann Farber, their son Georgie, and their dog Lucky arrive at their lake house. Their next-door neighbour, Fred, is seen with two young men, Peter and Paul. They find Fred reacting somewhat awkwardly. Fred and Paul come over to help put the boat into the lake. After they leave, George and Georgie stay outside by the lake, tending to their boat. Georgie asks his father why Fred was behaving so strangely.

While Ann is in the kitchen cooking, Peter visits and asks to borrow some eggs. Ann gives him the eggs but Peter clumsily drops them. Feeling a little annoyed after Peter accidentally knocks her phone into the sink filled with water, Ann gives him another four eggs and he leaves. Soon afterwards she hears Lucky barking and finds Peter and Paul inside together. Lucky had jumped on Peter, causing him to break the second batch of eggs. Paul asks her to try out one of the golf clubs outside, and she begrudgingly agrees. In the boat, George and Georgie hear Lucky barking hysterically when suddenly the barking stops. Peter and Paul request more eggs, and Ann becomes frustrated, but George arrives and tries to force the men to leave, slapping Paul. In retaliation, Peter breaks one of George’s legs with the golf club. The two young men then take the family hostage.

Paul guides Ann on a hunt to find the family’s dog, which he had killed with George’s golf club. When their neighbors, the Thompsons, visit, Ann passes the two men off as friends. After returning to the house, the Farbers are forced to participate in a number of sadistic games in order to stay alive. Paul asks if George or Ann wants to bet that they will be alive by 9:00 in the morning, and says that he and Peter are betting they will not be. Paul frequently ridicules Peter’s weight and lack of intelligence, and describes a number of contradicting stories of Peter’s past, although no definitive explanation is ever presented as to the men’s origins or motives.

During the “games”, Peter and Paul put Georgie’s head in a bag and ask Ann to strip naked. Georgie is nearly suffocated until George asks Ann to follow the men’s instructions. When released from the bag, Georgie escapes the house with the help of his parents. He goes to the neighbors’, where he discovers their bloody corpses. Meanwhile, Paul pushes Ann, whose hands have been tied with tape behind her back, onto a sofa that is some space away from George, and ties her ankles with tape before going out to search for Georgie, leaving Peter to watch over the Farbers. Ann asks why they do not directly kill them, and Peter answers that they should not forget the fun of the games. When Peter goes to kitchen to get eggs, Ann jumps to George but George fails to untie her before Peter comes back, and Peter beats her and breaks the eggs again. Ann begs Peter to let them go, but he refuses. Georgie finds a shotgun in the neighbors’ house and Paul tells him to go ahead and shoot him with it, but the gun fails to go off. Paul returns him to the living room, and gives the shotgun to Peter.

The men play a new game, saying whoever gets counted out will be shot. While Paul is in the kitchen getting something to eat, Georgie panics and runs, which results in Peter shooting and killing him. Paul berates Peter for being trigger-happy, and the two men decide to briefly leave. George and Ann are grief-stricken over their loss, but they eventually resolve to survive. Ann is able to free herself and flee the house while George desperately tries to make a call on the malfunctioning phone. Ann fails to find help, only to be re-captured by Peter and Paul, who bring her back to the house.

After stabbing George, they tell Ann to say a prayer before making a choice for her husband; a painful and prolonged death with the “little” knife, or a quick and brutal death with the “big” shotgun. While Paul is talking, Ann seizes the shotgun on the table in front of her and kills Peter. An enraged Paul grabs the shotgun and starts looking for the television remote. Upon finding it, he rewinds the last occurrences back to a moment before Ann grabs the shotgun, breaking the fourth wall. On the “do over”, Paul snatches the shotgun away before she can grab it and admonishes her, saying she is not allowed to break the rules.

Peter and Paul kill George and take Ann, bound and gagged, out onto the family’s boat. Ann tries to free herself, but is caught by Paul and Peter. Around eight o’clock in the morning, they nonchalantly throw her into the water to drown, thus winning their bet. They knock on the door of the Thompsons’ house and request some eggs. The film ends with Paul glancing at the camera with a smirk.