Talk:Benny's Video

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So far, this article is in the midst of development. The analysis is original work, as is the plot summary. Tgkohn 22:59, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

As of today, the writing is complete. Let the revision begin! Tgkohn 22:20, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Plot Section

The plot section makes no sense and appears to be incomplete. The first paragraph is barely readable and the second paragraph starts randomly mentioning a dead body which had not been described earlier. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.161.215.147 (talk) 01:59, 14 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Because of the nonsensical plot, I reverted the page to a lengthy (but sensible) version. Feel free to shorten it, but let's not make it impossible to understand.73.135.55.13 (talk) 22:52, 10 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Analysis

I removed the analysis section as it came off to me as a personal essay. If there is to be such a section, it should be sourced by reviews or published essays.--CyberGhostface (talk) 03:44, 29 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Keith Breese, "Benny's Video" in contactmusic.com.
Michael Brooke "Reviews & Articles" in Movie Mail. November 06, 2006
Keith H. Brown, "Haneke Trilogy (The Seventh Continent, Benny's Video, 72 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance)- DVD" in BFFS Scotland. January 07, 2007
Keith Hennessey Brown, "The Michael Haneke Trilogy" in Eye for Film. The text of the "Benny's Video" section is the same as the German translation in de:Benny's Video (January 2007)

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C Dempsey, "Benny's Video" in cinephelia.com. (2006)

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Lance Goldenberg, "Shock Treatment" in Creative Loafing.com. June 21, 2006

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Kat Halstead, "Michael Haneke Trilogy" in Dudactive.
John Harkness, "Beautiful negativity" in Now on film. April 20, 2000
Eric Henderson, "Benny's Video" in Slant magazine.com. (2006)
Paul Higson, "Benny's Video" in VideoVista.
Stephen Holden, "Benny's Video" review in New York Times. September 28, 1992
Andrew J Horton, "De-icing the Emotions" in Central Europe Review. V0, 5 October 26, 1998

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Ian Johnston, "Benny's Video" in Not Coming to a Theater Near You. (2006)

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Maximilian Le Cain, "Do the Right Thing: the Films of Michael Haneke" in Senses of Cinema. (May 2003)

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Livio Marchese, "L'etica dell'immagine nel cinema di Michael Haneke" in effettonotteonline.com. (November 2005)
Jörg Metelmann, "Living on Video. Mediale Kontrolle und humanistischer Kontrollverlust: Eine Relektüre von Michael Hanekes Benny’s Video" in Nach dem Film. Metelmann, in fairly great detail, raises the following observant points, among others:
- He compares the hand-to-hand exchange of cash and pills is counterposed to the overarching sense of the Bach cantata, although the film presents only a portion of one motet from the cantata.
- He contrasts the tightly-hung gallery of prints, simultaneously post-modern and yet bourgeois in its selection, at the family table with Benny's fascination with Donald Duck cartoons and video imagery.
- He relates the film to the Zygmunt Bauman essay "Modernity and Ambivalence: The End of Unambiguity."
- He analyzes the Arno Frisch performance as "almost irritatingly monotonous, ...as if behind the visible gaze is the eye of a camera, which scans reality for its ability to be transferred to film."
- He considers how Benny's parents are also perpetrators, or at least ennablers, of the murder and how Benny embodies the fundamental difference between the perpetrator and victim.

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