Shooting crabs in a barrel

Bibliographic Data

ID10494346
AuthorsPeter Gilroy (corresponding author)
Year2007
Volume48
Issue2
Pages233-235
Publication date2007-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueScreen (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0036-9543 • E-ISSN: 1460-2474
PublisherOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/screen/hjm020
OpenAlexW1973153928
LanguageEN
Citations received11

Caché is a positively disturbing film. I have had many rich and stimulating conversations about it and I have appreciated the insistent dialogue it provoked. The value of those conversations also made it difficult to ask for more from the cinematic experience than Michael Haneke offers. However, my intense reaction against his film is also worth exploring briefly here. I felt hostile towards what felt like the film's horrible accommodation with many of the things that it appears, at first sight, to be criticizing. This was not so much a clever study of audience complicity, regression or resignation, but rather a conduit for those depressing reactions served up with what looks like bad faith. The film seemed to offer only a shallow, pseudopolitical, or perhaps more accurately an antipolitical, engagement with profound contemporary problems that deserve – or demand – better treatment than an elaborate exercise in mystification can provide

Aesthetics · Art · Complicity · Epistemology · Faith · Media studies · Optics · Political science · Sight · Sociology · Value (mathematics · Computer Science · Law · Philosophy · Political and Economic history of UK and US

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