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The Limits of Control

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The Limits of Control	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })The Limits Of Control is a movie by Jim Jarmusch released in 2009.A man without a name is given a mysterious assignment in an airport. He takes a plane to Madrid, goes to a high-rise flat, waits, goes to a café, orders two espressos in separate cups. He goes to a museum and stares at a painting of a violin. The next day at the café, a man with a violin case comes and asks him if he speaks Spanish. They exchange matchboxes. Inside the matchbox are instructions that he memorizes and then eats. He goes to the museum and stares at the painting of a nude woman.Back at the flat, a naked girl with glasses waits for him. She asks if he likes her ass and suggests they have sex. He says, "Never while I'm working". The next day, at the café, a woman with a cowboy hat and a white-haired wig comes up and asks him if he speaks Spanish. They exchange matchboxes. She tells him, "The best films are like dreams we're never sure we really had." He gives the matchbox to the naked girl; it contains diamonds, which, we are reminded, are a girl's best friends.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })He takes the train to Sevilla. A Japanese woman asks him whether he speaks Spanish. They exchange matchboxes. Instructions, etc. He goes to a hotel room and waits. He goes to a club and watches flamenco dancers rehearse. He goes to a café and orders two espressos in separate cups. A man with a guitar comes up and asks him whether he speaks Spanish. Matchboxes, etc. He keeps the guitar. He takes the train to a small village. A man with a cowboy getup asks him whether, etc. He gives the guitar. He is taken to an abandoned hamlet and given a map. He walks in the desolate landscape and arrives at a fortified and heavily guarded compound.Back at the hamlet, the naked girl is asleep in a bed with a matchbox in her hand. He somehow infiltrates the compound. An angry executive type in a bunker asks him how he did it, and he says he used his imagination. Then he kills the man, using a string from the guitar. Then he goes back to Madrid, changes his clothes and disposes of them, and disappears.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_1'); })
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The Limits of Control / int_1a51c6ca	comment	Toros y Flamenco: Mostly averted. The film's depiction of Spain is stripped down to a few undoubtedly Spanish but non-cliche locations. Though there is flamenco involved.
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The Limits of Control / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: Several of them: Tilda Swinton, John Hurt, Bill Murray, etc...
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The Limits of Control / int_27690f66	comment	Literary Allusion Title: The Limits Of Control is the title of an essay by William Burroughs.
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The Limits of Control / int_2a7e7af1	comment	Limited Wardrobe: Played with. The main character wears three nearly identical suits in succession, until the very end when he puts on generic streetwear. And let's not mention the naked girl's even more limited wardrobe. It consists of a completely transparent plastic raincoat and nothing else.
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The Limits of Control / int_308a5ff0	comment	Strange Minds Think Alike: The American repeats just about everything the hitman's contacts discussed with him. May be a briefing method on part of the contacts.
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The Limits of Control / int_4127eb1	comment	Shut Up, Hannibal! - Kind of hard to talk when you're garroted.
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The Limits of Control / int_652bf890	type	Drone of Dread
The Limits of Control / int_652bf890	comment	Drone of Dread: Some of the soundtrack qualifies, as it contains songs Sunn O))), Earth, and Boris, three of the biggest bands in the genre of drone metal.
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The Limits of Control / int_6bf93fc7	comment	Fanservice: The naked girl swimming, wearing glasses...
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The Limits of Control / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: Everyone asks the main character whether he speaks Spanish.
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The Limits of Control / int_80eb641c	type	Straw Nihilist
The Limits of Control / int_80eb641c	comment	Straw Nihilist: The American's rant at the end apparently touches on his plans on wiping out entertainment and fiction, as it "poisons" people's minds to reality, where nothing matters. The song the hitman listens to directly after the hit has the lyrics of showing a man what life really is: worthless, like a handful of dust in a graveyard.
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The Limits of Control / int_8ec0abf	type	The Voiceless
The Limits of Control / int_8ec0abf	comment	The Voiceless: The main character hardly ever speaks.
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The Limits of Control / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Limits of Control / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: The paintings that the main character stares at provide clues as to his next encounter.
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The Limits of Control / int_a5d92fce	type	Celibate Hero
The Limits of Control / int_a5d92fce	comment	Celibate Hero: The main character remains indifferent to the charms of the naked girl, even when she spends the night curled up against him.
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The Limits of Control / int_a9850481	type	Meganekko
The Limits of Control / int_a9850481	comment	Meganekko: Lampshaded, as the girl keeps her glasses on even when otherwise naked.
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The Limits of Control / int_b0cbdcb1	type	Black Helicopter
The Limits of Control / int_b0cbdcb1	comment	Black Helicopter: A convoy watched over by one appears as the Hitman observes the Compound.
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The Limits of Control / int_b53c57d5	type	Epigraph
The Limits of Control / int_b53c57d5	comment	Epigraph: The film opens with a quote from Rimbaud: "As I descended impassible rivers / I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen."
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The Limits of Control / int_b7920c43	type	Lost in Translation
The Limits of Control / int_b7920c43	comment	Lost in Translation: The first scene involves a man speaking in creole French and another man translating into English. But at one point he says "How could I translate that? It didn't make sense even to me!"
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The Limits of Control / int_c5b47b36	type	Offscreen Moment of Awesome
The Limits of Control / int_c5b47b36	comment	Offscreen Moment of Awesome: The hitman manages to completely bypass a compound security entirely off screen.
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The Limits of Control / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: The main character, and in fact, every single other character.
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The Limits of Control / int_e1fa333c	comment	Hannibal Lecture - The American gives one to the hitman. Shut Up, Hannibal! - Kind of hard to talk when you're garroted.
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The Limits of Control / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: The main character is a black hitman-for-hire who hardly ever speaks, maintains a poker face throughout the whole film, follows an Eastern philosophy and goes through life like a ghost. In other words, he's just like the main character of an earlier film by Jarmusch, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai. Which the actor was in.
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