see confuse audiences with the enigma of who's sending the tapes just to distract the from the very obvious subject of the film: guilt. Or even better: national guilt. First, we have to remember that Haneke is the mind behind the infamous rewind scene in Funny Games, that makes you feel absolutely distressed over the fact that you're enjoying the violence and even waiting for the family to die. Georges, at some point, says that his motives for betraying Majid were the motives of a 5 years old boy. The Seine massacre was treated as a historiographical detail when it was fully publicly disclosed, as if something belonging to another country and not an event that is directly responsible for many disgraced generations of french-algerians (we see two generations affected in the film). Maybe we are giving too much importance to the detective story to the point we are deliberately missing the in-your-face message about a country that can't cope with events of its past that are still causing damage in its present.