Ep 22 - Benny's Video, Michael Haneke 1992

Published: Dec. 21, 2020, 7:36 a.m.

b"Benny is a teenage boy obsessed with video and death. He keeps replaying a VHS of a pig getting slaughtered, rewinding, re-watching and pausing at the moment of death. His well to do parents are absent ad let him do more or less as he wants, and while they are away on a trip Benny invites a young girl over to look at his tapes. \\n\\nThis is Haneke's second feature - a keen and chilling observation of our media obsessed world. Join Sverre Aagaard and Thomas Simonsen Balmbra as we discuss.\\n\\nOur Recommendations for this episode are:\\nCure (1997) by Kiyoshi Kurusawa\\nhttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt0123948/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\\n\\nThe Act of Seeing With One's Own Eyes by Stan Brakhage\\nhttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt0140788/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_283\\n\\nFeel free to get in touch at Unpleasantmovies@protonmail.com\\nor www.instagram.com/unpleasantmovies/"