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L'Enfant

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L'Enfant	label	L'Enfant
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L'Enfant	comment	L'Enfant (The Child) is a 2005 French language Belgian film directed by the brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne.The protagonist is Bruno (JÃ©rÃ©mie Renier), a pimply-faced and very dumb young man who lives on the fringes of society, scraping by via panhandling and petty theft. Sometimes he's so down and out that he lives under a bridge. As the film starts his girlfriend Sonia (DÃ©borah FranÃ§ois) comes home from the hospital, where she has just delivered their baby son, Jimmy. She can't get into her cramped apartment because, in her absence, Bruno has sublet it for a few days, but after she finds him she forgives him.Bruno ekes out a precarious existence by pawning/fencing stolen goods. A fence who knows about Jimmy makes a helpful suggestion: sell the baby! So, while he has little Jimmy with him, and without telling Sonia, Bruno sells him to some gangsters who do black market adoptions. When he returns to Sonia he tells her that he sold the baby, shows her the fat wad of euros that he got, and suggests that they can always have another.Sonia takes this about as well as one might expect: she faints. In fact, she has an attack that requires hospitalization. Bruno, who finally twigs to the idea that selling his infant son was not a good idea, asks for his baby back from the gangsters. Surprisingly, they do in fact return Jimmy—but there's a catch. The gangsters were expecting to profit â‚¬5000, and since they didn't get the money from the baby, they want it from Bruno. In the meantime, an enraged Sonia has reported Bruno to the police.
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L'Enfant / int_1b901025	type	The Fagin
L'Enfant / int_1b901025	comment	The Fagin: Bruno's petty theft operation involves some schoolboys who look to be in their early teens. They steal things and bring them to Bruno to fence, and sometimes Bruno will work together with one of the boys to steal purses, with Bruno driving the getaway scooter.
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L'Enfant / int_2c11d835	type	Kitchen Sink Drama
L'Enfant / int_2c11d835	comment	Kitchen Sink Drama: A tale of a petty criminal on the edge of homelessness who makes a spectacularly bad decision.
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L'Enfant / int_38305779	type	Baby as Payment
L'Enfant / int_38305779	comment	Baby as Payment: Bruno sells his baby to try and make some cash, and doesn't realize this is a bad thing until he tells his girlfriend what he's done and she faints. The criminals he sold the baby to want him to pay them as much as they were expecting to make on the kid for him to get him back.
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L'Enfant / int_403b6f3	type	Fainting
L'Enfant / int_403b6f3	comment	Fainting: Sonia keels over when she finally understands that Bruno did sell their baby. It's pretty serious, as she has to be hospitalized.
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L'Enfant / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
L'Enfant / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Bruno and Sonia's relationship may not be permanently damaged, and Bruno did manage to get the baby back. But he's in prison, no closer to paying off the debt to the baby traffickers, and there's no telling what might happen next.
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L'Enfant / int_643618e5	type	Replacement Goldfish
L'Enfant / int_643618e5	comment	Replacement Goldfish: Bruno's suggestion to Sonia is that selling their baby is just good business sense and they can always have another. Sonia does not agree.
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L'Enfant / int_7b4cbce1	type	Headbutt of Love
L'Enfant / int_7b4cbce1	comment	Headbutt of Love: In the last scene Bruno gets a visitor in jail—Sonia. She buys him a coffee from the vending machine. Bruno then breaks down in tears, sobbing uncontrollably. Sonia starts to cry too, and they do the Headbutt of Love. Then the movie ends.
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L'Enfant / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
L'Enfant / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: Before we even see Bruno we learn about what a dirtbag he is, when Sonia comes home from the hospital to find someone else in her apartment, which Bruno sublet. Then when she finally tracks down Bruno, we find out that he didn't even bother to come to the hospital.
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L'Enfant / int_9591377d	type	Heel Realization
L'Enfant / int_9591377d	comment	Heel Realization: Bruno seems to realize this around the time that he and Steve hide in the river to avoid the cops, and Steve nearly drowns, and Steve is then arrested. As Steve shivers in the police station, Bruno walks in, returns the money they stole from the lady's purse, and takes the blame for everything.
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L'Enfant / int_adf2910	type	Human Traffickers
L'Enfant / int_adf2910	comment	Human Traffickers: Black market baby-smuggling. The gangsters who engage in it are far more serious and dangerous criminals than the hapless Bruno.
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L'Enfant / int_b70b1e3b	type	Institutional Apparel
L'Enfant / int_b70b1e3b	comment	Institutional Apparel: Bruno is dressed in the standard drab prison outfit when he meets Sonia in jail at the end.
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L'Enfant / int_d442f9d1	type	ToiletHumor
L'Enfant / int_d442f9d1	comment	Toilet Humor: As Bruno and his teenaged purse snatcher Steve lie in wait, Bruno says, "Did you fart?" Steve blames it on the school cabbage.
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L'Enfant / int_d5139ac	type	Reality Has No Soundtrack
L'Enfant / int_d5139ac	comment	Reality Has No Soundtrack: There is no soundtrack for the entire movie. The only music heard in the film is the "Blue Danube" waltz, played briefly over a car stereo.
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L'Enfant / int_e7e558	type	The Oner
L'Enfant / int_e7e558	comment	The Oner: The scene where Bruno delivers the baby runs four minutes without a cut. He enters an abandoned apartment building, lays the baby on his jacket in an empty room, then goes to the next room. After a brief wait he goes back into the first room and finds a wad of cash on his jacket. The camera stays on him from when he enters with Jimmy until when he leaves.
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L'Enfant / int_f36c4f98	type	Easily Forgiven
L'Enfant / int_f36c4f98	comment	Easily Forgiven: Sonia is surprisingly chill about Bruno subletting her apartment without asking, and she doesn't mind that Bruno wasn't there for the baby's birth. Soon they're laughing and having fun as always. But when he sells the baby, this trope no longer applies.
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