Any way you look at this movie it's a worthless exercise in brutality. In the director's eyes he claims he wants people to see violence as it really is. Problem being, outside of the arthouse circuit people in general don't want to see that. (There are always a few sadists or mentally under-developed miscreants who want to see real violence, but that is what Faces of Death or other snuff movies are for.)

Funny Games is trash. Plain and simple. It's only purpose is to abuse the audience and attempt to call out those who enjoy horror films as sadists. Honestly, who's the sadist here? Haneke? Who revels in his actual abuse of viewers? Or the horror fans who expects that their movies don't treat them like bottom dwellers?