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Content Warning: If you know, you know.\\xa0 Because this is Funny Games.\\xa0 A movie celebrated and criticized for its brutal and emotionally devastating depiction of violence, mental and physical torture, murder, and emotional distress.\\xa0 We discuss these features directly in this episode and consequently not all listeners may want to listen along.\\xa0 Skip this one if you are emotionally susceptible to the discussion of such subjects.

Yep, its time for Funny Games.\\xa0 It wouldn't be a real investigation of the Criterion Collection without turning our eyes to Michael Hanneke's unflinching exploration of the damaging nature of violence in modern media.\\xa0 An approach that reads at times gleeful in its visceral mistreatment of humanity and unapologetically critical of our consumption of this kind of entertainment.\\xa0 Can this movie have it both ways?

If you'd like to watch ahead for next week's film, we will be discussing and reviewing Terry Gilliam's\\xa0Time Bandits\\xa0(1981).