I thought that Bennys Video was quite a disturbed film, and violent at times. In Bennys Video 14-year old Benny (Arno Frisch) spends his days at school around with his school mates, visiting the video arcade, and watching scenes recorded by his video camera on the television monitor in his room. Bennys Mother (Angela Winkler) seems to only be available to fill the fridge with microwaveable food, Bennys parents spend much time away leaving Benny on his own which the young boy fills with watching a documentary film he made of a pig being slaughtered beginning with being shot in the head with a butchers gun. One afternoon Benny meets a young girl (Ingrid Stassner) in front of a video store and invites her home where they have pizza, and milk and watch videos. Benny shows the girl the butchers gun that he stole when he made the video of the pig slaughter. This is quite a violent film directed by Michael Haneke
Review of Benny's Video
