Benny's Video Analysis

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In Benny’s Video the audience saw how graphically intense a scene was when we did not actually get to see it at all. Haneke in a way blind us from the film, when Benny shoots the little girl for the first time all we see is her moving out of the frame while she screams. The sound of her screams is all we hear from her, while we see Benny freak out and try to reload the gun as he shoots her again. This take happens all in one single frame, so Haneke forces us to see this girl getting shot to death all in our mind. It creates a very dark and overwhelming feeling for the audience. Then after she dies, the frame stays in the exact same place creating tension in the scene as he try to realize what happened. When he starts to undress her, the shot

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