Caché (2005)

Caché (2005)
Directed by Michael Haneke
Writing Credits Michael Haneke (screenplay)
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MY RATING: *****

Caché is a work of art disguised as a thriller. This is the only possible way to explore the web of emotions that arise when the voyeur becomes voyeured. Western civilization sees through a television screen what it doesn't feel from reality. Reality and fiction are not easy to discern and, here, they are intermingled in its most realistic fashion. Television and reality can become such good pals that, sometimes, the only way to observe the truth is through a TV screen. Does anything happen at all if it's not seen through our TV screens? Does reality conforms to a cinematic process or does this process itself is a lie in order to conform to suggestion of reality we prefer instead of the whole truth? Michael Haneke took the subject of his early films and perfected it until nothing else remains except the questions themselves. It is not an easy film. It may leave a lot of moviegoers frustrated. But, is that frustration from not understanding this masterpiece or, even scarier, frustration from understanding it?