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Haneke admits that the suicide scene is fundamental for sustaining the reality effect of his film: "This is the most important shot of the film: if the suicide scene is not plau-sible then the entire film is spoiled bloody and disturbing physical violence made central to the film - as the film poster
The only emotion shown is when Georg shatters their large fish tank, and his daughter screams and cries hysterically. Finally, they commit suicide by overdosing on pills dissolved in water, first Eva, then Anna, and finally Georg, who vomits up the liquid and must resort to injecting himself.
Jun 1, 2009 · Michael Haneke’s Caché [Hidden] (2005) uncannily uncovers this hidden trauma that resurfaces in the present. But my primary question is simple: why video?
Dec 15, 2017 · The story of a couple who commit suicide and give a lethal injection to their daughter, The Seventh Continent was based on a family suicide Haneke had read about in the newspaper—certainly a...
Feb 10, 2021 · For the couple planning murder-suicide, active disengagement from the system of economic circulation is the penultimate step to removing themselves entirely from society. They nevertheless encounter resistance in the smallest denominations.
- William H. Carter
- 2021
Dec 23, 2013 · Cache (Hidden) (2005) Michael Haneke's composed, stoic thriller sees a middle-class Paris family harassed via videotaped surveillance of their home by an anonymous source that seems to be...
The wife in The Seventh Continent (1989) is complicit in the family’s group suicide until it is too late to prevent it.
