{"id":50,"date":"2006-06-18T18:03:19","date_gmt":"2006-06-18T22:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/50"},"modified":"2009-05-18T17:51:32","modified_gmt":"2009-05-18T21:51:32","slug":"71-fragments-of-a-chronology-of-chance-1994-michael-haneke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/50","title":{"rendered":"71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (1994, Michael Haneke)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;My films are the expression of a desire for a better world,&#8221; Haneke says.  In the same interview, he says he regrets once having called this the &#8220;glaciation trilogy&#8221; because he wants it to be more complex and not so easily labeled.<\/p>\n<p>Old man living alone having trouble communicating with family.  Student into ping pong and gambling.  Runaway immigrant kid adopted by local family.  News reports on global wars and celebrity scandal.  A shooting at a bank.  Punctuated by sudden silence and black between scenes.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/images\/71fragments1.jpg\" alt=\"71\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A clear predecessor to <em>Code Unknown<\/em>, but where I didn&#8217;t get C.U. at all, this one at least makes sense.  Kind of your <em>Amores Perros<\/em> cross-sections of people united by an incident of violence, but of course far less obviously scripted.  Not a causes-and-effects-of-violence sort of thing.  The Haneke quote above makes perfect sense.  He&#8217;s showing a bunch of familiar events, saying &#8220;what is wrong with this picture&#8221; and daring us to connect the dots.  One of the most immediately easy to understand of his films, but still hard to watch.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I don&#8217;t know about that, &#8220;hard to watch&#8221;.  With the long static shots and the lack of narrative structure, I think of them as hard to watch.  But then, I compulvisely rent them, and I&#8217;d watch <em>Time of the Wolf<\/em> or <em>Cache<\/em> again right now or anytime.  Not unenjoyable, but not exactly a magic-carpet-ride of entertainment.  Need to come up with a new term to describe these.  How do you recommend a Haneke movie to someone?  Obviously I&#8217;m not alone, since the thursday afternoon show of <em>Cache<\/em> was sold-out in new york, and the video releases have been flying off the shelf here for a month now&#8230; he&#8217;s a popular guy.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/images\/71fragments2.jpg\" alt=\"72\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;My films are the expression of a desire for a better world,&#8221; Haneke says. In the same interview, he says he regrets once having called this the &#8220;glaciation trilogy&#8221; because he wants it to be more complex and not so easily labeled. Old man living alone having trouble communicating with family. Student into ping pong [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[149],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-michael-haneke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2443,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/2443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}