The Bunny Game (2011)

Save your money for something good and enjoyable

Good concept, poorly executed.

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Before one of you writes me off as someone who doesn't enjoy disturbing films, let it be known that not only do I love a Serbian Film, but my favorite movie of all time is Irréversible, you know the one with the 11 minute rape scene. Where was I, oh yeah this film is awful. 90% of this movie is just some guy yelling at the woman and the other 10% is some awful scene made up of jumpcuts with some of the worst music that I've ever heard playing in the background. I almost turned off the movie ten minutes in because of how bad the music was. And with extremely loud music, you gotta have unbelievably loud screaming for the entire movie to go along. I had a headache for the rest of the day after I saw this film. Overall this is a worthless piece of absolute garbage that I hope nobody ever sees again.

Where do I begin. I have just wasted seventy six minutes of my life, which I can never can never get back, but I have a duty to warn everyone as a potential viewer to avoid this mess at all costs. I made it through both The Human Centipede I & 2, and even the Japanese torture film, Grotesque, and those are works of art compared with The Bunny Game, which has no structure whatsoever. Rodleen Getsic plays a cocaine addicted prostitute who makes the mistake of getting into a truck with a driver from hell. He knocks her out with chloroform and neither of them says very much, and Ms. Getsic mostly screams and the abductor laughs maniacally while making silly faces, all in choppy black and white. It looks like a long form Nine Inch Nails video, without Trent Reznor's interesting music to accompany it. The script must be about one page, because Getsic is reduced to saying, "let me go" and the unnamed wacko does a great impression of Charles Manson. He shaves her hair off and brands her with a figure eight symbol, for no apparent reason. The lead actress also has her real last name tattooed on her right arm, and I am puzzled by this. IMDb does not allow a zero, so I am forced to give The Bunny Game a 1/10.

The Bunny game is a black and white film focused around the life of a cocaine addicted prostitute who is abducted by a truck driver and degraded and tortured for a period of time in the desert. One review caught my attention- There is an issue that the lengths of certain shots are "boring" and/or "pointless" and i have to say that i disagree. Nor do i think the lengths of shots are there to merely build up tension. I think the way this film is shot makes it so that the viewer does not passively engage in viewing the film as a mere sadistic turn on or curiosity. I'm sure some just seek out this genre in order to tick a box... I think this is a film that successfully uses a certain level of art house, somewhat experimental style to allow the viewer some distance from its content. On the one hand it ventures to be as realistic as possible , yet on the other uses techniques that are distancing, highlighting the creative process of making the film. Personally, i didn't feel a great deal of sympathy for the central character. Next to no dialogue and a rebellious looking cocaine addicted female prostitute coupled with intermittent strong, hard, fast music... I guess you assume she can handle herself and this is her choice. I enjoyed the concept of time in the film too. She has no idea how long she has been there and i found that i lost a sense of time while watching the film as it becomes dizzying and almost seemed circular at times. On another note, does the truck driver actually rape her? I can't remember that he does... I particularly loved the film for its ending. I don't think it could have ended any other way! She was a nobody at the start of the film , you didn't get to know her through out the film and in the end she just disappears from the screen to an unknown future, an unknown person. I'm sure this is the most realistic aspect of using the role of a prostitute. They move around a lot and no one raises much concern if they just vanish. They are an easy target. I found the conclusion of the film rather poignant considering the rest of it. I look forward to a second viewing to analyse it further. I haven't read anything of the film, its making or the director so shall maybe research it a bit.

Sincerely, no word in this language could help me to classify this piece of crap. I wonder why so many people in cinema industry tend to believe that showing a person suffering for two hours could be called "a story" and could end being a "script for a film"...Maybe we can discuss this question when we are talking about "The Texas chainsaw massacre" or even "Hostel"...but this is not the case. The director is pretty good. The scenes are strong. The acting is absolutely fantastic. The photography and sound are excellent. But...the story is absolutely inextistent. Just 90 minutes of boring action, repeated torments, repeated sadism...just so boring, so ... Make yourself a favor, don't loose your time watching a crazy man tormenting a young prostitute. It is useless.