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The Element of Crime
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The Element of Crime is Lars von Trier's 1984 debut film, a Genre-Busting movie, a Science Fiction film as well as a Psychological Thriller with plot and characters typical of Film Noir, but the general atmosphere of a Cyberpunk with a Chance of Rain story, located in immediately post-World War III Europe, with surrealist undertones, and the whole thing filmed in a fashion homaging expressionist movies. The result is one of the gloomiest movies ever directed which makes even Blade Runner look bright and optimistic.It tells the story of detective Fisher, expatriate in Cairo, who undergoes therapeutic hypnosis in order to recall the events of his last case, which left him quite traumatised. The rest of the movie thus consists entirely of a flashback of said events: the search for an elusive child killer, using a controversial profiling method created by his former mentor and described in a book, the titular Element of Crime.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })First film of the Europa trilogy. | |
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Crapsack World | |
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Crapsack World: Post-World War III Europe is nothing but a crumbling pile of ruins where everybody has gone dirt poor, deeply corrupt, completely mad, or a combination of those. | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun: One of the sculpted statuettes left by the killer triggers the Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! moment, much later into the movie. | |
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Chiaroscuro | |
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Chiaroscuro | |
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City Noir | |
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City Noir | |
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Black-and-Gray Morality | |
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Black-and-Gray Morality | |
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Bad Cop/Incompetent Cop | |
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Bad Cop/Incompetent Cop: The police forces are so violent, expeditive, corrupted or unconcerned that they really act the part of The Mafia. | |
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Anti-Hero | |
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Anti-Hero: Fisher starts as one, but by the end of the film, he became a Fallen Hero. | |
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Alone with the Psycho | |
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Alone with the Psycho: Subverted and possibly deconstructed, see Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!, below. | |
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Cyberpunk | |
| The Element of Crime / int_faf36236 | comment |
Cyberpunk-Diesel Punk-Punk Punk: Difficult to place exactly, but definitively Something Punk; the atmosphere certainly gives a Cyberpunk with a Chance of Rain Blade Runner-esque feeling, but the time period is post World War III, in an unnamed European country in ruins, though weird contraptions and anachronistic apparatuses do show up here and there. | |
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