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The Voices

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The Voices	comment	The Voices is a 2014 American-German Direct to Video Horror Black Comedy movie directed by Marjane Satrapi, and starring Ryan Reynolds, Gemma Arterton, Anna Kendrick, and Jacki Weaver.The film centers on Jerry, a cheerful man with a new job in a bathtub factory. He's also insane. Every night at home, he thinks that his dog Bosco and cat Mr. Whiskers are talking to him. When he asks out the company's pretty accountant, Fiona, things take a turn for the darkly humorous. Will Jerry listen to Bosco and take the moral path, or will he listen to Mr Whiskers and succumb to his insanity?
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The Voices / int_131e6871	type	Crazy Sane
The Voices / int_131e6871	comment	Crazy Sane: When Jerry starts taking his pills, he sees the world for how it truly is: his house is a bloody mess, his pets don't talk, and Fiona's head is rotting. He's so freaked out by reality that he immediately flushes his pills.
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The Voices / int_143939c1	type	Trailers Always Spoil
The Voices / int_143939c1	comment	Trailers Always Spoil: One of the official trailers shows Jerry stabbing Fiona, severed heads kept in the fridge, Fiona's severed head talking, Dr Warren being kidnapped, and the SWAT raiding Jerry's home.
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The Voices / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
The Voices / int_222dc873	comment	Black Comedy: Jerry's pets talk to him, which is occasionally played for comedy, as is Jerry's social awkwardness. The credits sequence also does a Mood Whiplash play for comedy.
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The Voices / int_2482df9c	type	Companion Cube
The Voices / int_2482df9c	comment	Companion Cube: Jerry thinks his pets are talking to him, as well as the severed heads of his victims.
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The Voices / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
The Voices / int_2d4fa515	comment	Ax-Crazy: Jerry’s grip on sanity is tenuous at best, and his murderous urges only make matters worse. He eventually turns into a Serial Killer.
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The Voices / int_33987735	type	Disposing of a Body
The Voices / int_33987735	comment	Disposing of a Body: Jerry's method involves sawing bodies into small pieces and storing them in Tupperware. He keeps the heads in the fridge.
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The Voices / int_3c878b40	type	Uncleanliness Is Next to Ungodliness
The Voices / int_3c878b40	comment	Uncleanliness Is Next to Ungodliness: When he eventually took his pills, then when seen through the eyes of another character, Jerry's home appears to actually be incredibly filthy, littered with trash bags, some animal feces, then blood splats from his butchering activities. All this showing how the protagonist is mentally unstable.
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The Voices / int_49f20c6a	type	Gory Discretion Shot
The Voices / int_49f20c6a	comment	Gory Discretion Shot: In the scene when Jerry is sawing Fiona's corpse in small pieces, we only see her legs hanging from the table's edge.
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The Voices / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
The Voices / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil: Jerry really tries to be a good person, but is ultimately unable to control his murderous impulses eventually killing all three of the accounting girls
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The Voices / int_58e43f17	type	Cats Are Mean
The Voices / int_58e43f17	comment	Cats Are Mean: Mr. Whiskers constantly belittles Jerry and isn't nice either with Bosco. After Fiona's murder, he advises Jerry to dispose of the body, and brags that killing is the thing he likes the most.
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The Voices / int_5d5cc3fd	type	Through the Eyes of Madness
The Voices / int_5d5cc3fd	comment	Through the Eyes of Madness: A major trope of the movie. Jerry hallucinates the voices and sees his home as a clean comfy nest, while it's actually a horribly filthy hole. We see the truth when he momentarily takes medication and when the POV switches to other characters.
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The Voices / int_649f5bec	type	Creepy Souvenir
The Voices / int_649f5bec	comment	Creepy Souvenir: In the course of the story, Jerry gets the severed heads of three of the firm's accountants stuffed in his fridge: Fiona, then his lover Lisa, and eventually Alison, another of their colleagues. Oh, and he speaks with them, too.
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The Voices / int_6d089995	type	The Shrink
The Voices / int_6d089995	comment	The Shrink: Dr Warren, Jerry's therapist, is friendly and tries to be helpful. Unfortunately, her help is very limited, since Jerry didn't take his pills very long. To her credit, she chastises him when he finally confesses he's off his meds. Near the end, he takes her hostage to force her to cure him through an express therapy.
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The Voices / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
The Voices / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Jerry's mother tried to kill herself in the past rather than be put in a mental institution (Jerry then finished her off at her request). Near the end, a distraught Jerry gives up and lets himself die in a fire rather than harm anyone else.
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The Voices / int_6dcbe9aa	type	Deconstructive Parody
The Voices / int_6dcbe9aa	comment	Deconstructive Parody: Arguably to the comedy subgenre "guy talks with his pets". Jerry is obviously insane, his talks with his pets seem to be hallucinated though the weird ending could mean otherwise, his cat is a sociopath, his home is actually a horrible, filthy den that he usually sees beautiful and clean thanks to his hallucinations, one of his hallucinations starts a succession of disasters, and he eventually becomes a serial killer. The movie is also very funny, thanks to the dialogue with the pets. It can also be seen as one towards Garfield, as you have a guy whose name starts with a "J" who owns and talks to his pet cat and dog. The cat is also sociopathic, and treats his owner and the dog poorly while the dog is the Nice Guy of the trio.
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The Voices / int_7a82c3d2	type	All Love Is Unrequited
The Voices / int_7a82c3d2	comment	All Love Is Unrequited: Fiona reactions to Jerry's attempts to seduce her show clearly that she isn't attracted, and feels annoyed by him. Just as she starts to warm up to him, he crashes into the deer then murders her.
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The Voices / int_7bc90010	type	Hearing Voices
The Voices / int_7bc90010	comment	Hearing Voices: The basic premise of the film. Jerry is a crazy guy who thinks he hears voices from a variety of sources, mostly from his pets, but also from a roadkill deer and the severed heads of his victims. It's not clear whether he actually thinks a goldfish is talking to him or if he's just playing around.
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The Voices / int_82accf22	type	Gainax Ending
The Voices / int_82accf22	comment	Gainax Ending: After Jerry dies, Bosco and Mr. Whiskers have a short discussion in a featureless white void about their influence over Jerry's actions. The film ends with Jerry, his parents, the three accountants he murdered, and Jesus performing a song and dance number.
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The Voices / int_8928fe5f	type	Dead Man's Chest
The Voices / int_8928fe5f	comment	Dead Man's Chest: Jerry keeps the heads of his victims in his refrigerator.
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The Voices / int_898ff050	type	Villain Protagonist
The Voices / int_898ff050	comment	Villain Protagonist : Sort of. Jerry doesn't really have malicious intent, but he is obviously insane and eventually commits three murders and one kidnapping.
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The Voices / int_8b568cb7	type	Posthumous Character
The Voices / int_8b568cb7	comment	Posthumous Character: Jerry's parents, seen in flashback. Fiona also spends the majority of her screentime as a "talking" severed head.
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The Voices / int_8cbd311b	type	Good Angel, Bad Angel
The Voices / int_8cbd311b	comment	Good Angel, Bad Angel : Bosco and Mr. Whiskers have this relationship with Jerry. Bosco is the good angel and Mr. Whiskers is the bad. In the end, after Jerry has committed suicide, they comment on Jerry's life in a featureless white plane, suggesting that they're angels.
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The Voices / int_98a150f3	type	Excrement Statement
The Voices / int_98a150f3	comment	Excrement Statement: At a point after killing Fiona, Jerry becomes Lisa's lover, instead of killing her (to bring Fiona's head a friend in the fridge), and then spends a whole night without getting back home. Quite angry at his absence, Mr Whiskers casually mentions that he pooped on the sofa.
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The Voices / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
The Voices / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Jerry genuinely regrets having killed Fiona and Lisa.
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The Voices / int_a3c0c1df	type	Dance Party Ending
The Voices / int_a3c0c1df	comment	Dance Party Ending: Under the credits, everyone who died in the film join Jesus for a colorful dance number in order to let Jerry into the afterlife.
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The Voices / int_aba0cd10	type	Cloudcuckoolander's Minder
The Voices / int_aba0cd10	comment	Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: Bosco is nice and has reasonable advices to Jerry. He tries to convince him to go to the police after Fiona's murder. He understood that it was an argument, but the following murders really disappointed him. Dr. Warren tries to be this for Jerry, but unfortunately he lies about taking his pills due to being unable to face up to being alone (without his talking pets) or to ignore his horrible surroundings.
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The Voices / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
The Voices / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: Allison. After Lisa doesn't show up to work and reading an article on about Jerry being institutionalized after helping his mother kill herself, she decides to go visit him alone. Her head ends up in the fridge with Fiona and Lisa as his last victim.
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The Voices / int_ba44639	type	Killed Offscreen
The Voices / int_ba44639	comment	Killed Offscreen: Alison is the third accountant to die. The last scene she's seen alive, Jerry opens his door after she knocked it. The immediate following scene is Jerry visiting his fridge, in which Alison's head joined Fiona and Lisa.
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The Voices / int_bef696dd	type	Mind Screw
The Voices / int_bef696dd	comment	Mind Screw: In case you couldn't tell, it's a film about a bathtub factory worker who suffers from a mental illness, talks to his pets, and is eventually driven to murder, complete with talking severed heads.
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The Voices / int_bf9163d9	type	Blonde, Brunette, Redhead
The Voices / int_bf9163d9	comment	Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: Lisa, Fiona, and Alison, the three women who work in the accounting department and Jerry's three victims
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The Voices / int_c37e00e7	type	Formally-Named Pet
The Voices / int_c37e00e7	comment	Formally-Named Pet: Mr. Whiskers, Jerry's cat.
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The Voices / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
The Voices / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: After Fiona's murder, Jerry's happy relationship with Lisa could have changed his life. Until she enters in his home without his consent and sees Fiona's severed head, causing her demise. Then, the plot really goes downhill.
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The Voices / int_c6fb9ebc	type	Piss-Take Rap
The Voices / int_c6fb9ebc	comment	Piss-Take Rap: There's a montage where Fiona, Lisa, and Alison go out for a night of karaoke - Alison is briefly seen performing Ol' Dirty Bastard's "Shimmy Shimmy Ya" (which is actually plot-appropriate, since the song includes the lyric "I go psycho killer, Norman Bates").
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The Voices / int_d2102da0	type	Bad People Abuse Animals
The Voices / int_d2102da0	comment	Bad People Abuse Animals: Downplayed; Jerry feeds and loves his pets in his hallucinations but thier living condition's disgraceful. When seen through sane eyes, the animals don't seem happy.
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The Voices / int_d50e7e13	type	White Void Room
The Voices / int_d50e7e13	comment	White Void Room: The ending.
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The Voices / int_dfe687c9	type	Alone with the Psycho
The Voices / int_dfe687c9	comment	Alone with the Psycho: Lisa when discovering Jerry's den. Then Jerry comes in...
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The Voices / int_e57c714d	type	Insane Equals Violent
The Voices / int_e57c714d	comment	Insane Equals Violent: Jerry at first just suffers auditory and visual hallucinations. However, once one hallucination starts telling him to kill, he becomes a serial killer. However, he struggles against this aspect of his mind, and hates himself after giving in.
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The Voices / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
The Voices / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: Jerry's psychiatrist asks if he hears 'disembodied voices' and he tells her "Not really" because the voices are those of his pets.
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The Voices / int_ea30a388	type	Carpet-Rolled Corpse
The Voices / int_ea30a388	comment	Carpet-Rolled Corpse: Jerry rolls Fiona's body into a carpet to transport back to his home.
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The Voices / int_f3626b09	type	Mercy Kill
The Voices / int_f3626b09	comment	Mercy Kill: After mortally injuring a deer, Fiona and Lisa, Jerry kills them all out of mercy. He also did this to his mother in the past, at her request.
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The Voices / int_f47bdd2a	type	Violent Glaswegian
The Voices / int_f47bdd2a	comment	Violent Glaswegian: Mr. Whiskers' lines are pronounced with a Scottish accent, and he's a self-processed killer.
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The Voices / int_fd497706	type	Accidental Murder
The Voices / int_fd497706	comment	Accidental Murder: While driving Fiona back home, Jerry's car collides with a deer. Jerry hallucinates the deer requesting a mercy kill and slits the deer's throat with a knife. Fiona is totally shocked and flees. Jerry tries to get her back and run after her, still holding the knife. He eventually accidentally stabs her in the belly, then kills her to end her suffering. To some extent, the case in his second murder. He violently shoves Lisa down to keep her from escaping to report what she's seen, but doesn't appear to have any intention to kill her by doing so. She hits her head on the back of his bed, though, and is slowly dying when he decides to kill her as well. It's only his third murder that is entirely intentional.
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The Voices / int_fed93e1b	type	Dark and Troubled Past
The Voices / int_fed93e1b	comment	Dark and Troubled Past: Jerry unsurprisingly had one. He had a mentally ill mother who had hallucinations, which Jerry shared. To stop this, his stepfather tried abusing it out of him. This of course didn't work, and only made him want an escape with them even more. His mother tried to kill herself rather than be committed to an institution, and Jerry ended it at her request. Because the police found him with a bloody knife in his hand, Jerry was locked up (his psychiatrist mentions that he's on parole later).
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