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It's not a subliminal statement. It's shoved right under your nose from the get go. Real violence is horrid, abrupt and sometimes you see it coming but can't get out of the way for one reason or another.
Copycat films since Funny Games now gleefully take this message and remove all nuance so they can shovel in more grim "reality".
Eden Lake and Cherry Tree Lane are two particularly nasty and worthless imitators but again, I can see why some people enjoy them as straight horror films.
Funny Games is hopelessly bleak in both incarnations, it's just that Arno Frisch plays the part so much more naturally than anyone else could, and Michael Pitt is a beautiful performer. Arno is your realistic smiling sociopath, Michael Pitt is the Hollywood impression of it.
The remake cops out in those ways in which the original excelled despite being a shot for shot. Part of that has to do with the very notion of remaking a film that is so brilliant at what it does...but what it does is terrible to look at. It's an experience so horrible that there's no attraction to watching it ever again.
But it is essentially spot on with what it does.
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