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In general, in all my films, i choose to create a certain mistrust, rather than claiming that what i'm showing onscreen is an accurate reproduction of reality. i want people to question what they are seeing onscreen. in the same way as i used the narrator, i also used black and white, because it creates a distance toward what's being seen. i see the film as an artifact rather than a reliable reconstruction of a reality that we cannot know.
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In General, In All My Films, I

Michael Haneke
In general, in all my films, i choose to create a certain mistrust, rather than claiming that what i'm showing onscreen is an accurate reproduction of reality. i want people to question what they are seeing onscreen. in the same way as i used the narrator, i also used black and white, because it creates a distance toward what's being seen. i see the film as an artifact rather than a reliable reconstruction of a reality that we cannot know.
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