Hidden Hahneke Analysis
In Hidden, Haneke is putting into perspective his story with the historical and political past of France. To do so, he uses the dramatic tension of his own film to symbolise the collective and persistent denial of this historical ghost that is the Paris massacre of October 17th 1961.
If Hidden is interesting and confronts the audience between several alternative realities, it is thanks to its perverse use of high definition digital material, making it impossible to know if we are confronted with the present reality or the reality of a footage; they are essentially divided into two categories, diegetic and intra-diegetic. This produces a completed disorientation of the viewer, who ends up trapped into claustrophobic and obscure environments
If Hidden is interesting and confronts the audience between several alternative realities, it is thanks to its perverse use of high definition digital material, making it impossible to know if we are confronted with the present reality or the reality of a footage; they are essentially divided into two categories, diegetic and intra-diegetic. This produces a completed disorientation of the viewer, who ends up trapped into claustrophobic and obscure environments