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BENNY'S VIDEO
1992, Austria, dir. Michael Haneke, 110 mins



NOTES:

-The cold remove of bourgeois consumption
-There is no mess that liberal austerity cannot iron out
-Emotion is the enemy of power
-Calculating self-interestedness
-Doing it cus you can
-Video rental as access to violence
-Transaction, ownership, the ability to rewind
-Murder as a travel and education opportunity
-Ambivalence as a status symbol, accessory
-To record is to entomb

FURTHER READING:

Review: "Will You Be Able to Stomach It? Haneke’s Food Motif and the Violence of Creation and Consumption in Benny’s Video"
Video interview with Michael Haneke (in French but YT's auto-translate cc is decent enough)

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