Why Megan Is Missing Feels Wrong: POV, Empathy, and Funny Games

Megan Is Missing's exploitative feeling isn’t just its subject matter. The movie is basically designed to be gross, and this video tries to show that by looking at camera placement, POV, and structural alignment. Megan Is Missing aligns the audience with the villains and misdirects empathy. I contrast that structure with Funny Games, a movie that also makes the audience feel responsible for the movie's events. There are some other counterexamples investigated at the end, to form a kind of empathy direction toolkit.

Resources:
RAINN – rainn.org - 1-800-656-4673 (Hotline)
Childhelp – childhelphotline.org - 1- 800-422-4453 (Hotline)
NCMEC – missingkids.org
Thorn – thorn.org
ECPAT - ecpat.org
Internet Watch Foundation - iwf.org.uk

Goodreads:
goodreads.com/branomander

Music:
Southern Gothic - Kevin Macleod
Magic Forest - Kevin Macleod
Vibing Over Venus - Kevin Macleod

Sources/Further Reading:
Carol J. Clover - Men, Women, and Chainsaws: Gender In The Modern Horror Film
Roger Ebert

Films Used With Footage:
Megan Is Missing
Funny Games (2007)
A Serbian Film
The Human Centipede 2
Martyrs
The Girl Next Door

The above movies' associated footage is utilized purely within the realm of fair use due to the transformative nature of the clips, and their educational and analytical purpose.

#horrormovies #filmanalysis #filmtheory #moviereviews

Chapters (timestamps added after upload)
0:00 Introduction
8:00 The Plots
10:42 Analytical Lens
12:14 Megan Is Missing Analysis
30:13 PSA and Funny Games
40:34 Other Examples
44:31 Conclusion
45:20 Resources

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