Time and thought

the anachronistic abnormality as thrusting element for the critical consciousness in Funny Games

Abstract

This article searches to understand the relations between the use of time by the cinema and the effects it produces on the audience, from the movie “Funny Games” (1997), by the Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke. Therefore, it brings the cinematic theory by Deleuze (1983; 1990) and an analysis of a sequence in which the occurence of the time-image stimulates the critical thought between the spectators. As a result, we can say that the synthesis between notions of time operated by the director, from the perspective of Badiou (2015), transforms the public into an accomplice of murders, provoking the engendering of guilt and a reflection about the consumption of violent images as entertainment.