![]() We slurp our soup while Sarajevo burns on the boob tube." Haneke, the point seems less that evil is commonplace than that we don’t engage with it as thinking, actively moral beings. Manohla Dargis of The New York Times called it an "An icy-cool study of violence both mediated and horribly real" concluding that "For Mr. Newscasts report on the Bosnian War, the Somali Civil War, the South Lebanon conflict, the Kurdish–Turkish conflict, and molestation allegations against Michael Jackson.Īdam Bingham of Senses of Cinema wrote "Formally and conceptually, the film is one of the most challenging narrative works of the 1990s." News footages of real events are shown through video monitors. The film is characterized by several fragments that take the form of video newscasts unrelated to the main storylines. The film is divided into a number of variable-length "fragments" separated by black pauses and apparently unrelated to each other. The drama consists of varied characters in each storyline: a Romanian boy who immigrated illegally into Austria and lives on the streets of Vienna a religious bank security worker a lonely old man staring at a TV screen a childless couple considering adoption a frustrated student and so on. He then walks back to his car and shoots himself. He returns to the bank, where he begins firing indiscriminately at the people inside. He leaves the bank and walks back to his car where he retrieves his gun. Stressed out and in a rush, he goes inside the crowded bank and attempts to cut to the front of the line, but he is assaulted by another customer. Short on cash, he goes across the street to use the ATM, but it is out of order. At the same time, the retired man goes to the bank under the guise of picking up his pension, but he's really there to see his daughter who works there. While out doing errands, the wife leaves him in the car while she goes inside the bank. He is taken in by the couple who wanted to adopt the girl. The Romanian boy is picked up by authorities and his story receives news coverage. A married couple tries to adopt a young girl. A retired man sits at home watching TV, talking at great length to his daughter who is too busy to spend time with him. ![]() He bets his watch against a stolen pistol. A college student plays games with his friends in which they bet against each other. A young man steals weapons from a military armory. ![]() At home he argues with his wife and says prayers at great length. A security worker makes pickups at a bank. In Vienna he lives on the streets as a beggar. A young Romanian boy sneaks across the border at night, wading through a swamp and hiding in the back of a truck. It then chronicles in flashbacks the previous few months of several people in Vienna. The film opens with intertitles which introduce the mass killing in detail. ![]() Haneke refers to 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance as the last part of his "glaciation trilogy", the other parts of which are his preceding two films The Seventh Continent and Benny's Video. The film is set in Vienna from October to December 1993. It has a fragmented storyline as the title suggests, and chronicles several seemingly unrelated stories in parallel, but these separate narrative lines intersect in an incident at the end of the film. 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance ( German: 71 Fragmente einer Chronologie des Zufalls) is a 1994 Austrian drama film directed by Michael Haneke. ![]()
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