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The Tracey Fragments
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The Tracey Fragments is a 2007 Canadian psychological drama film starring Elliot Page, directed by Bruce McDonald, and written by Maureen Medved. The film is based on Medved's 1998 novel of the same name.Tracey Berkowitz (Page) is a 15-year-old girl searching for her 9-year-old brother, Sonny, who she hypnotized into permanently acting like a dog. The movie opens with her riding in the back of the bus, clothed only by wrapping herself in a shower curtain, and explains how she got there through a series of anachronic flashbacks.The film is notable for being filmed entirely in Mondrian/split-screen multi-frame compositions, making the "fragments" of the title literal as well as figurative.In a unique promotion tactic, the director and producers initiated a project shortly before the film's release titled Tracey: Re-Fragmented. The soundtrack and all raw footage shot for the movie was released under a Creative Commons license as torrent downloads, in the first-ever instance in film history of a director releasing free downloads of a film alongside the film's theatrical release. Fans were free to use the footage for personal projects or new trailers and re-edits for the film. A contest was held for the best uses of the footage, with the winner receiving a Final Cut Pro prize pack and having their material included on the DVD release. | |
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All Men Are Perverts: Tracey seems to hold this opinion: | |
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Madness Mantra | |
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Madness Mantra: "Just a normal girl... just a normal girl..." | |
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"It" Is Dehumanizing | |
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"It" Is Dehumanizing: Tracey's classmates, who torment her and call her "it" due to her undeveloped body, implying that she is neither male nor female. | |
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Unreliable Narrator | |
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Unreliable Narrator: There are multiple instances where Tracey's recounting of certain events turn out to be sensationalized far cries from what actually happened, owing to her mental state and personal struggles. At one point, she even directly lampshades it. | |
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Ironic Echo: In their previous collaboration, Maxwell McCabe-Lokos who played Lance gave Page the line "Guys'll do that ya know. They'll act like they can protect ya, but in the end they wind up saving their own asses." | |
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Generation Xerox | |
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Generation Xerox: In a subtle sense, it seems like both Tracey and her mother are delusional and emotionally unstable. | |
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Shoot the Shaggy Dog | |
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Shoot the Shaggy Dog: A scene near the end seems to strongly imply that Sonny drowned in a nearby lake while Tracey was hooking up with Billy, rendering her whole journey to find him completely pointless. | |
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Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism | |
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Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: Way, and we're talking way, down the cynical end. | |
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Noodle Incident | |
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Noodle Incident: Tracey's conversations with "Myra Bernie". | |
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Painting the Medium | |
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Painting the Medium: The film's unique Mondrian visual style is meant to represent Tracey's mind in a more tangible manner. | |
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Country Matters | |
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Country Matters: Tracey calls her psychiatrist a "robot cunt." | |
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Raised by Wolves: When Sonny was a baby, he was supposedly found by Tracey's father up north after he shot a wild dog. This would explain why he's always acting like a canine. | |
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Sanity Slippage | |
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Sanity Slippage: Even before Tracey loses her brother, she doesn't seem that mentally stable... | |
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Kids Are Cruel | |
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Kids Are Cruel: Tracey is regularly bullied by her classmates, in ways including being called "it" and getting tripped in the hallways. | |
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Freak Out | |
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Freak Out: After Tracey runs away, she winds up in a payphone calling her mother. She picks up, but as Tracey tries talking to her, she doesn't respond and eventually hangs up, leading to Tracey having an emotional breakdown, repeatedly slamming the phone against the wall. | |
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Dysfunction Junction | |
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Dysfunction Junction: Virtually every character in this film is either mentally unstable, addicted to drugs, or borderline sociopathic. The only happy character is that laughing man on the bus, and even he could have something wrong with him. | |
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Anachronic Order | |
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Anachronic Order: The film jumps back and forth between the past and present quite frequently and without warning. | |
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Split Screen | |
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Split Screen: The entire movie is this. There are at least two "windows" into Tracey's memories open at any one time, usually many more. | |
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As Himself | |
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As Himself: George Stroumboulopoulos has a short cameo as himself. | |
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Imagine Spot | |
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Imagine Spot: There are quite a few parts that are these (like the "Tracey Berkowitz Story" bit). However, some are melded into the main story, adding to Tracy's status as an unreliable narrator. | |
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Idealized Sex | |
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Idealized Sex: Tracey imagines her sexual encounter with Billy Zero like this. In reality, it's quick, disappointing, uncomfortable, and he kicks her out of his car when he's done. | |
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Abusive Parents | |
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Abusive Parents: Tracey's parents, of the more emotionally abusive variety in ways like unfairly blaming her for problems. However, her father does insist at one point that he loves her, and Tracey assures the audience that her life is not "an abuse story". | |
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Fauxlosophic Narration | |
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Fauxlosophic Narration | |
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Tragic Dream | |
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Tragic Dream: The fantasy sequence Tracey has where she stumbles across a store magazine with herself on the cover and imagines herself as an incredibly famous rock star. Given her circumstances, it's made pretty apparent that this is purely a pipedream. | |
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Mind Screw | |
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Mind Screw: Not only because of the fact that there are multiple events on screen at the same time, but most of the plot points and motivations of characters are left ambiguous, forcing the audience to make their own interpretation. The anachronic flashbacks make everything even more incomprehensible. | |
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Fan Disservice | |
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Fan Disservice: "Elliot Page almost fully naked" might turn a few heads. "Elliot Page almost fully naked as a result of being unwillingly stripped and almost raped" as well as the fact that Elliot's character is 15 is likely to turn them right back. | |
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Troubled, but Cute | |
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Troubled, but Cute: Billy Zero. Tracey would be a female version of this trope. | |
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All Girls Want Bad Boys | |
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All Girls Want Bad Boys: Deconstructed. Billy Zero is widely sought after by the girls of Tracey's school, including Tracey, who is totally infatuated with him. When she finally meets Billy, he just uses her for sex and abandons her. This results in Tracey losing Sonny. | |
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Hallucinations | |
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Hallucinations: Tracey has many fantasies, the most prominent of which involves herself and Billy Zero falling in love and becoming famous rock stars. In real life, he barely pays attention to her, until the day they have sex in his car, which is "coincidentally" the same day her brother goes missing. | |
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A-Cup Angst | |
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A-Cup Angst: Tracey is frequently bullied about her breast size, and as a result makes self-deprecating jokes about it. | |
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Survival Mantra | |
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Survival Mantra: Tracey ends the film with a repeated statement of resilience. | |
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Attempted Rape | |
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Attempted Rape: When Tracey is at Lance's, a thug that Lance has not yet paid comes into his apartment and beats him up while Tracey hides behind a shower curtain. She is eventually found, and the thug forces her to take off her shirt and pants with clear intents of getting further. She is able to escape by slashing his face with a rusty lid from a can of beans, after which she runs out with nothing but the shower curtain, which she grabs at the last second. | |
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Dark and Troubled Past | |
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Dark and Troubled Past: Tracey's home life is extremely dysfunctional, and one that she describes merely as "a hole". | |
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