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In the Cut

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In the Cut	label	In the Cut
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In the Cut	comment	In the Cut is a 2003 erotic neo-noir directed by Jane Campion and starring Meg Ryan, Mark Ruffalo, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Nick Damici, Sharrieff Pugh, and Kevin Bacon. It is based on the 1995 novel of the same name by Susanna Moore. Ryan plays Frannie Avery, a woman who becomes entangled with a detective investigating a series of grisly murders in her Manhattan neighborhood. Ruffalo played Giovanni Malloy, the aforementioned mysterious detective that Frannie is drawn to.The film received a polarizing response from critics and audiences when it was released. In the years since, In the Cut has been reassessed as a feminist erotic thriller and praised for its subversions of common thriller tropes.
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In the Cut / int_185be310	type	Acceptable Feminine Goals and Traits
In the Cut / int_185be310	comment	Acceptable Feminine Goals and Traits: This is embodied by the charm bracelet Pauline gifts to Frannie. The charms represent traditional milestones in a woman’s life—marriage, babies, home ownership, and so forth.
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In the Cut / int_1b4e322c	type	Mr. Fanservice
In the Cut / int_1b4e322c	comment	Mr. Fanservice: Malloy is a handsome, muscular man who's shirtless at length while having sex with Frannie.
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In the Cut / int_1e0c10c5	type	Laugh of Love
In the Cut / int_1e0c10c5	comment	Laugh of Love: Frannie immediately goes from crying to laughing after having sex with Malloy.
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In the Cut / int_21f3e32e	type	Chekhov's Boomerang
In the Cut / int_21f3e32e	comment	Chekhov's Boomerang: Early on, Frannie comes across a man in the shadows receiving a blow job and notices a 3 of Spades tattoo on his wrist. This comes back up multiple times.
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In the Cut / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
In the Cut / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: The missing charm from Frannie's bracelet. Actually a Red Herring.
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In the Cut / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
In the Cut / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: Frannie is an English professor who is lecturing about the Virginia Woolf book To the Lighthouse to her class. Later, she is taken to where the killer murders his victims, The Little Red Lighthouse below the George Washington Bridge.
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In the Cut / int_2b49eaf	type	Damsel out of Distress
In the Cut / int_2b49eaf	comment	Damsel out of Distress: Frannie manages to kill the murderer when she's alone. He tries to murder her before Frannie shoots him dead and thus saves herself.
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In the Cut / int_2bdb6280	type	The Big Rotten Apple
In the Cut / int_2bdb6280	comment	The Big Rotten Apple: The New York City seen here is decidedly not a glamorous one, but a grimy one where danger seems to lurk on every corner.
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In the Cut / int_2de02182	type	Visual Title Drop
In the Cut / int_2de02182	comment	Visual Title Drop: As a sepia-toned scene plays of people ice skating on a pond, the film’s title fades in just as a man makes a sharp turn on the ice with the blade of his skate that leaves behind a trail of blood.
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In the Cut / int_323fd510	type	Everyone Is a Suspect
In the Cut / int_323fd510	comment	Everyone Is a Suspect: Practically everyone who comes into contact with Frannie is a possible suspect. Frannie herself could be a suspect, since the murder victim’s severed limb was found in her garden.
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In the Cut / int_3929e0db	type	You Need to Get Laid
In the Cut / int_3929e0db	comment	You Need to Get Laid: Pauline urges a hesitant Frannie to go out with the detective.
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In the Cut / int_392b0ab5	type	Blood-Stained Letter
In the Cut / int_392b0ab5	comment	Blood-Stained Letter: Variation. Cornelius, one of Frannie’s students, turns in a paper on John Wayne Gacy that has blood stains on it.
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In the Cut / int_3b4bd0b4	type	Killer Cop
In the Cut / int_3b4bd0b4	comment	Killer Cop: Frannie suspects that Malloy is the serial killer who he's been trying to catch. She even outright asks him multiple times. It isn't him, but his partner Richard Rodriguez.
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In the Cut / int_3f7a958b	type	Secret Test of Character
In the Cut / int_3f7a958b	comment	Secret Test of Character: Frannie handcuffing Malloy to something, straddling him in a chair, dry-humping him fully clothed and then bursting into tears because the act just confirms that she is obsessed with him.
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In the Cut / int_41271766	type	Happily Ever After
In the Cut / int_41271766	comment	Happily Ever After: Very much averted and deconstructed. Frannie’s romantic idealization of how her mother and father met and married is shown in charming fantasy sequences. Later, when Frannie’s paranoia about the murderer heightens, the sequences become disturbingly darker.
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In the Cut / int_49f6a9e4	type	Most Writers Are Writers
In the Cut / int_49f6a9e4	comment	Most Writers Are Writers: Frannie is a creative writing teacher who is also working on a book about slang, which she consults her student Cornelius on. A wall of her apartment is covered in paper notes of spoken language she hears on the street and poetry that intrigues her.
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In the Cut / int_4db42cf3	type	Male Frontal Nudity
In the Cut / int_4db42cf3	comment	Male Frontal Nudity: A brief shot of Rodriguez's penis can be seen in an extreme close-up as a woman performs oral sex on him.
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In the Cut / int_4e7f703c	type	Wham Shot
In the Cut / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: The reveal that Rodriguez has the same tattoo as Malloy.
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In the Cut / int_62434fe2	type	Sanity Slippage
In the Cut / int_62434fe2	comment	Sanity Slippage: As Frannie gets closer to Malloy, she increasingly becomes suspicious of not only the detective, but everyone she knows.
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In the Cut / int_63b02752	type	Hair-Trigger Temper
In the Cut / int_63b02752	comment	Hair-Trigger Temper: When Frannie calmly tells her ex-boyfriend John, “I don’t think we should see each other anymore,” on a busy New York street, John abruptly lashes out at her.
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In the Cut / int_6c87dbef	type	Masturbation Means Sexual Frustration
In the Cut / int_6c87dbef	comment	Masturbation Means Sexual Frustration: Frannie masturbates while thinking about Malloy, the detective who came by her apartment earlier to tell her about the murder investigation. In her fantasies, she also suspects Malloy could be the same man she observed getting a blow job from the murder victim—in other words, the murderer himself.
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In the Cut / int_7301ae04	type	Serial Killer
In the Cut / int_7301ae04	comment	Serial Killer: The NYPD is seeking a brutal one loose in New York City who murders young women then cuts them apart. One woman's leg is found in Frannie's garden, and thus she gets connected with the detectives. She comes to suspect that Detective Giovanni Malloy is the killer, but also starts having sex with him. It turns out to be his partner though, Richard Rodriguez. Frannie's kidnapped and nearly murdered by him, but kills Rodriguez in self-defense near the end.
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In the Cut / int_7e6c0522	type	Off with His Head!
In the Cut / int_7e6c0522	comment	Off with His Head!: Part of the killer's MO. Poor Pauline winds up a victim of this in the end.
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In the Cut / int_8ae880f7	type	Deconstruction
In the Cut / int_8ae880f7	comment	Deconstruction: The film deconstructs tropes of neo-noir and erotic thriller films. Usually, these films feature dangerous femme fatales who use their sexuality to ensnare the fall guy. That's not what happens in this film.
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In the Cut / int_8af7b342	type	Sibling Yin-Yang
In the Cut / int_8af7b342	comment	Sibling Yin-Yang: Half-sisters Pauline and Frannie. While Pauline is free-spirited, outgoing, and loves being in relationships, Frannie is more reserved and cautious. Pauline is also more traditional than Frannie in that she’d like to get married and start a family.
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In the Cut / int_8b68d9a7	type	Stalker with a Crush
In the Cut / int_8b68d9a7	comment	Stalker with a Crush: John Graham (the character played by Kevin Bacon) is an ex-boyfriend of Frannie’s who stalks her.
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In the Cut / int_a55b762	type	Neverending Terror
In the Cut / int_a55b762	comment	Neverending Terror: Not only does Frannie have to contend with a serial killer on the loose, but she must deal with a stalker ex-boyfriend and a mugger.
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In the Cut / int_a74ca4fc	type	The Peeping Tom
In the Cut / int_a74ca4fc	comment	The Peeping Tom: Frannie observes the anonymous man receiving a blow job for a beat too long.
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In the Cut / int_aa0ed8a9	type	Look Both Ways
In the Cut / int_aa0ed8a9	comment	Look Both Ways: Trying to evade her mugger, Frannie runs into the street and ends up colliding with a taxi cab. She is not seriously injured, but the cab driver comes out and emphasizes the accident was not his fault; he does, however, offer her a ride home.
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In the Cut / int_abc28948	type	Straw Misogynist
In the Cut / int_abc28948	comment	Straw Misogynist: Detective Rodriguez, Malloy's partner. Rodriguez talks about women and gay men crudely. He also abused his wife, which is why he is temporarily relegated to desk work.
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In the Cut / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
In the Cut / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: Malloy takes Frannie to a secluded wooded area near the river where she practices shooting at some floating garbage bags.
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In the Cut / int_b032e4ed	type	Ms. Fanservice
In the Cut / int_b032e4ed	comment	Ms. Fanservice: Frannie is shown nude at length while having sex with Malloy, mostly topless though bottomless too very briefly. When she's receiving oral sex from him it's especially erotic.
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In the Cut / int_b869b5b1	type	Color Motif
In the Cut / int_b869b5b1	comment	Color Motif: The color red recurs throughout the film—it is the color of the murder victims' blood, and when Frannie is watching the anonymous man getting a blow job in the dive bar basement, the man's figure is shadowed by red neon light. Red also shows up in the dress Frannie wears at the end and the lighthouse that Frannie is taken to.
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In the Cut / int_c3782352	type	Exiled to the Couch
In the Cut / int_c3782352	comment	Exiled to the Couch: Malloy is divorced, but is still sleeping on his ex-wife’s couch.
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In the Cut / int_c660bc15	type	Fan Disservice
In the Cut / int_c660bc15	comment	Fan Disservice: Frannie handcuffing and then dry humping Malloy the second time they sleep together could be either this or fanservice.
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In the Cut / int_c74c35f4	type	Monochrome Past
In the Cut / int_c74c35f4	comment	Monochrome Past: Frannie's dream sequences that supposedly show how her parents met and fell in love, ice skating on a pond with snow falling around them. The sepia tones emphasize how much Frannie idealizes her parents' meet-cute. It is later revealed that Frannie's father left another woman for her mother, using the ring he was going to give to the other woman to propose to her. After marrying Frannie's mom, he would eventually leave her for another woman, going on to marry three other times (Pauline's mother not among them).
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In the Cut / int_d0243fe7	type	Crying After Sex
In the Cut / int_d0243fe7	comment	Crying After Sex: Frannie cries after having sex with Malloy the second time because she realizes she's actually falling for him.
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In the Cut / int_d08a19c4	type	ImmodestOrgasm
In the Cut / int_d08a19c4	comment	Immodest Orgasm: Frannie achieves this during sex with Malloy many times.
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In the Cut / int_d7a8fdeb	type	Intimate Telecommunications
In the Cut / int_d7a8fdeb	comment	Intimate Telecommunications
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In the Cut / int_dbca2c99	type	Red Herring
In the Cut / int_dbca2c99	comment	Red Herring: Both John Graham and Cornelius are suggested by the film as potential culprits behind the killings. While the former is clearly disturbed and the latter is outright shown to be dangerous, neither turn out to be The Killer. And of course, Detective Malloy winds up being this in the end as well.
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In the Cut / int_dde43ab	type	Tattooed Crook
In the Cut / int_dde43ab	comment	Tattooed Crook: Malloy's spade tattoo is the first thing that leads Frannie to suspect him of being the killer. As it turns out, she wasn't too far off the mark; the killer winds up being Malloy's partner Rodriguez, who has the same tattoo.
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In the Cut / int_e4bb68b8	type	The Charmer
In the Cut / int_e4bb68b8	comment	The Charmer: Deconstructed. Malloy is charming and knows how to please his partners, but he can also be vulgar and kind of a prick.
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