http://www.uniondocs.org/sandman_november_29/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:29:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.uniondocs.org/sandman_november_29/comment-page-1/#comment-2156 Funny Games – UnionDocs Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:41:26 +0000 http://www.uniondocs.org/?p=3251#comment-2156 [...] S&Man skitters around a couple of big, interesting questions about our relationship to images of cruelty. But as the film barrels towards its conclusion, it becomes apparent that, instead of knotting the various strands that comprise the film, director JT Petty has indiscriminately tangled them together. Petty is a good storyteller with broad concerns, but S&Man is not structurally precise enough to effectively pull off the game he wants to play. [...] [...] S&Man skitters around a couple of big, interesting questions about our relationship to images of cruelty. But as the film barrels towards its conclusion, it becomes apparent that, instead of knotting the various strands that comprise the film, director JT Petty has indiscriminately tangled them together. Petty is a good storyteller with broad concerns, but S&Man is not structurally precise enough to effectively pull off the game he wants to play. [...]

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