When I first envisioned 'Funny Games' in the mid-1990s it was my intention to have an American audience watch the movie. It is a reaction to a certain American cinema its violence its naivety the way American cinema toys with human beings. In many American films violence is made consumable.

The facility of obtaining food is beneficial in two ways to the owners of capital it at the same time raises profits and increases the amount of consumable commodities.