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 Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Tony Manero is a 2008 drama film by Pablo Larraín that uses the classic 1977 movie Saturday Night Fever as a springboard for a new story. Filmed and set in Chile, it centers around a callous criminal named Raúl Peralta (played by Alfredo Castro) who becomes obsessed with the U.S. film's portrayal of disco culture and specifically the role of "Tony Manero" that John Travolta peformed. A dark, cynical look at The '70s in that nation, during which Chilean life was rocked by Augusto Pinochet's brutal dictatorship, the Spanish language movie follows Peralta's growing obsession and eventual opportunity to live out his dreams by performing on a Saturday Night Fever themed impersonation contest on national TV.Featuring a thieving, murderous Villain Protagonist (The New York Times called the movie an "indelible portrait of a sociopath with the soul of a zombie"), Tony Manero has picked up critical praise but is still an odd bird to say the least. Compared to the iconic disco film, it functions as a Spiritual Sequel, as a fascinating parallel narrative touching on the same themes, as a dark deconstruction (somewhat ironic, given the downbeat background of the first film, making Tony Manero a deconstruction of a deconstruction), and as an unrelated character study of life in a decrepit Police State.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })
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 Armor-Piercing Question: Raúl gets asked point-blank what he's going to do when this trendy disco "fashion" dies. He weakly retorts that it's more than that, but the question clearly needles him, sticking in his mind. This uncertainty dogs him up to and including the film's final scene, when he's sitting in a bus having lost the fateful contest in a "Now what?" stupor.
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 Black-and-Gray Morality: And how. The protagonist is an oddly serene yet totally depraved criminal. He spends his time in places that almost always look decaying and rotten. The various side characters fall on varying scales of obnoxiousness with none being that overly sympathetic (or even given that much of a focus, anyways). Obsessing over fictional glitz makes sense given how cynically awful their world is.
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 Badass in a Nice Suit: To be expected given the scenario.
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