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The Divide

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The Divide	comment	The Divide is an apocalypse film from 2012, starring Michael Biehn and Lauren German.New York is under attack. The tenants of an apartment building try to escape, but failing that try to get to the basement which the superintendent, Mickey, has rebuilt into a large and well-stocked fallout shelter. Several of the tenants make it in and are trapped in the building's sealed-off basement. The story begins.
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The Divide / int_177a6464	type	Genre Shift
The Divide / int_177a6464	comment	Genre Shift: Starts out as an After the End movie, moves into what seems to be Science Fiction with strange soldiers and Body Horror, then full on into Apocalypse Anarchy.
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The Divide / int_2059a430	type	The Hedonist
The Divide / int_2059a430	comment	The Hedonist: Once Josh and Bobby take control of the food supply from Mickey, and the Sanity Slippage from the reality of being sealed in, they give themselves over to playing sick and immature games with themselves and Marilyn. After Marilyn expires from it, they then turn their attentions to the others...
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The Divide / int_21889507	type	A House Divided
The Divide / int_21889507	comment	A House Divided: As stated in the movie, all groups break down into self-interest in times of scarcity.
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The Divide / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
The Divide / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: Civilization has been destroyed in a nuclear war, and choked by poisonous radiation. The only authority left are squads of Gas Mask Mooks rounding up healthy survivors to experiment on them. The main characters range from weak and cowardly to jealous, paranoid and/or self-interested all the way up to Serial Rapist.
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The Divide / int_2ed5e99d	type	Depraved Bisexual
The Divide / int_2ed5e99d	comment	Depraved Bisexual: Although never explicitly shown, Josh and Bobby's interaction with each other (especially after they have gone completely insane) radiates this.
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The Divide / int_334e48a1	type	After the End
The Divide / int_334e48a1	comment	After the End: The whole film takes place from the moment of a nuclear attack in New York until an unknown amount of weeks afterwards.
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The Divide / int_3b16449	type	Plot Tumor
The Divide / int_3b16449	comment	Plot Tumor: The characters and their interaction and descent crowd out any of their curiosity about what is going on outside.
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The Divide / int_4655ec83	type	Important Haircut
The Divide / int_4655ec83	comment	Important Haircut: After noticing their hair is falling out due to the radiation, Josh and Bobby opt to shave their heads completely, resulting in Bald of Evil as they now look more threatening and less human.
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The Divide / int_4b316d47	type	Break the Cutie
The Divide / int_4b316d47	comment	Break the Cutie: Marilyn on so many levels. Everybody else gets Maddened Into Misanthropy or just plain dies.
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The Divide / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
The Divide / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Eva may have gotten out of the bunker, but the surface is uninhabitable, she has limited supplies, and she has radiation sickness.
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The Divide / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
The Divide / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: The film starts with Eva staring at the city as the nuclear explosions start. It ends with Eva staring at the devastated city in the aftermath of her escape. Also, the film starts with Eva's boyfriend Sam screaming at her to escape with him out of the building during the nuclear attack. It ends with Sam screaming at Eva to free him from a locked, burning room as she escapes the shelter.
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The Divide / int_54bb502b	type	Nobody Poops
The Divide / int_54bb502b	comment	Nobody Poops: Mickey in the wheelchair. He's in there at least a few days (It's pointed out that the combination on the panic room was changed "two weeks ago", so even if they are over-estimating, it's been more than three days), however when Mickey is freed from the chair there is no hardened feces under his rear. Justified by the fact that very few people want to see that, even by the standards of this movie.
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The Divide / int_550754dc	type	Improbable Infant Survival
The Divide / int_550754dc	comment	Improbable Infant Survival: Played with in an awful way: We don't know if the children that are taken by the military (including Wendi) are still alive, but if they are it's not really a comforting fact anyway.
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The Divide / int_734632b0	type	Noble Bigot
The Divide / int_734632b0	comment	Noble Bigot: Mickey is a complete Jerkass, loving the fact that he's lording it over the other basement's tenants, spends some time rambling racist Conspiracy Theorises on who nuked the city and shoots Devlin when the latter discovers he's been hoarding supplies and tries unsuccessfully to pass it off as self-defense, but we late find out that he used to be a firefighter and his wife and child were killed (probably in a terrorist attack)]].
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The Divide / int_77414bc2	type	Action Prologue
The Divide / int_77414bc2	comment	Action Prologue: The movie starts directly with some sort of horrible nuclear event taking place in New York City, and the main characters trying to escape their building and ending up in the basement.
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The Divide / int_8a817c2a	type	Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil
The Divide / int_8a817c2a	comment	Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: What is done to Marilyn- Josh and Bobby taking advantage of her catatonic shock after losing her daughter. Also what Eva goes through
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The Divide / int_96a33f11	type	Riddle for the Ages
The Divide / int_96a33f11	comment	Riddle for the Ages: Very little of the outside world strangeness is resolved, instead focusing on the people in the shelter.
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The Divide / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
The Divide / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Whoever caused the nuclear attack on NYC.
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The Divide / int_9788e2b1	type	Black Dude Dies First
The Divide / int_9788e2b1	comment	Black Dude Dies First: Devlin (Courtney B. Vance's character) is the first to die on-screen, shot by Mickey when he discovers that Mickey had been hoarding supplies. This is if we don't count what may have happened to Marilyn's daughter Wendi.
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The Divide / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Divide / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Mickey makes a magic trick with a disappearing finger to calm down Wendy. Later, during tortures, his finger is cut off.
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The Divide / int_ad4c74ed	type	Final Girl
The Divide / int_ad4c74ed	comment	Final Girl: Eva is the only member of the survivors to make it to the end of the film.
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The Divide / int_c446f93c	type	Artistic License â€“ Nuclear Physics
The Divide / int_c446f93c	comment	Artistic License â€“ Nuclear Physics: The movie begins with a character staring directly into a nearby nuclear explosion. Said character is not blinded, nor even dazed by this, and has plenty of time to make it to a nearby fallout shelter before the shockwave hits... Radiation from the initial blast would dissipate after a few days or weeks (and that's even assuming that the building above them took a direct hit). The bunker is below ground packed in earth and entirely made of concrete. There would be no real way of radiation seeping in from the outside without fallout, (which wouldn't be disturbed and have no way of reaching them considering that the bunker is sealed), thus the characters shouldn't be succumbing to radiation
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The Divide / int_e2a6ebc1	type	Closed Circle
The Divide / int_e2a6ebc1	comment	Closed Circle: Nobody can leave the basement because of the radiation outside. And once the soldiers of the Big Bad weld the door to the basement shut from the outside, leaving is no longer an option.
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The Divide / int_e2d7b14c	type	Made of Explodium
The Divide / int_e2d7b14c	comment	Made of Explodium: A tiny kerosene lantern turns the mostly concrete bunker into an inferno.
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The Divide / int_ed3e90f3	type	Duct Tape for Everything
The Divide / int_ed3e90f3	comment	Duct Tape for Everything: In a spectacularly Squick-inducing example, Marilyn's "clothes" once she starts being repeatedly raped by Josh and Bobby is duct-tape underwear.
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The Divide / int_ed581814	type	Dismembering the Body
The Divide / int_ed581814	comment	Dismembering the Body: Bobby has to dispose of the bodies in this manner using a fire axe.
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TheDivide	seeAlso	The Divide

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