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* ArcWords: "Sunshine". Jane's spirit likes to make the radio play the overwhelmingly optimistic song "Let the Sunshine In", Tommy talks to his son about how his mother Ray was nicknamed such to be short for "ray of sunshine" despite being sucidially depressed under the surface, and the radio at the end of the film says the weather has been several consecutive days of sunshine despite the characters experiencing a storm. This likely ties into a theme of unnatural pleasantness being an almost impenetrable way to obscure genuinely dark issues, paralleled by Jane being impossibly untouched on the surface while hiding bizarre and horrific wounds.

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* ArcWords: "Sunshine". Jane's spirit likes to make the radio play the overwhelmingly optimistic song "Let the Sunshine In", Tommy talks to his son about how his mother Ray was nicknamed such to be short for "ray of sunshine" despite being sucidially suicidally depressed under the surface, and the radio at the end of the film says the weather has been several consecutive days of sunshine despite the characters experiencing a storm. This likely ties into a theme of unnatural pleasantness being an almost impenetrable way to obscure genuinely dark issues, paralleled by Jane being impossibly untouched on the surface while hiding bizarre and horrific wounds.
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* ArcWords: "Sunshine". Jane's spirit likes to make the radio play the song "Let the Sunshine In", Tommy talks to his son about how his mother Ray was nicknamed such to be short for "ray of sunshine", and the radio at the end of the film says the weather has been several consecutive days of sunshine. This likely ties into a theme of sunshine being a veneer over dark issues that must be broken open.

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* ArcWords: "Sunshine". Jane's spirit likes to make the radio play the overwhelmingly optimistic song "Let the Sunshine In", Tommy talks to his son about how his mother Ray was nicknamed such to be short for "ray of sunshine", sunshine" despite being sucidially depressed under the surface, and the radio at the end of the film says the weather has been several consecutive days of sunshine. sunshine despite the characters experiencing a storm. This likely ties into a theme of sunshine unnatural pleasantness being a veneer over an almost impenetrable way to obscure genuinely dark issues that must be broken open.issues, paralleled by Jane being impossibly untouched on the surface while hiding bizarre and horrific wounds.



* CentralTheme: Accepting something that looks good on the surface may cause you to miss out on serious dark issues, tied into the ArcWords of "sunshine". Jane Doe is a corpse who appears perfect and unharmed on the surface, but internally, very much is wrong with her, and her spirit must be calmed by the coroners fully discovering the pain she suffered and offering relief. Her spirit causes "Let the Sunshine In" to play on radios as an apparent ironic statement as Jane herself has suffered greatly. Tommy discusses how Austin's mom Ray had a lot of pain going on underneath the "sunshine" personality she projected to the world, and he deeply regrets not being able to see the depression she lived with until her suicide. Lastly, the radio at the end says it's been several days of sunshine when from the protagonists' perspective, a horrendous storm was going on at the time of the autopsy, indicating that the darkness they uncovered wasn't noticed by anybody else and [[spoiler:Jane may continue to suffer in sunshine henceforth]].

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* CentralTheme: Accepting something that looks good on the surface may cause you to miss out on serious dark issues, tied into the ArcWords of "sunshine". Jane Doe is a corpse who appears perfect and unharmed on the surface, but internally, very much is wrong with her, and her spirit must be calmed by the coroners fully discovering the pain she suffered and offering relief. Her spirit causes the pro-positivity "Let the Sunshine In" to play on radios as an apparent ironic statement as Jane herself has suffered greatly. Tommy discusses how Austin's mom Ray had a lot of pain going on underneath the "sunshine" personality she projected to the world, and he deeply regrets not being able to see the depression she lived with until her suicide. Lastly, the radio at the end says it's been several days of sunshine when from the protagonists' perspective, a horrendous storm was going on at the time of the autopsy, indicating that the darkness they uncovered and experienced wasn't noticed by anybody else and [[spoiler:Jane may continue to suffer in sunshine henceforth]].
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* ArcWords: "Sunshine". Jane's spirit likes to make the radio play the song "Let the Sunshine In", Tommy talks to his son about how his mother Ray was nicknamed such to be short for "ray of sunshine", and the radio at the end of the film says the weather has been several consecutive days of sunshine. This likely ties into a theme of sunshine being a veneer over dark issues that must be broken open.


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* CentralTheme: Accepting something that looks good on the surface may cause you to miss out on serious dark issues, tied into the ArcWords of "sunshine". Jane Doe is a corpse who appears perfect and unharmed on the surface, but internally, very much is wrong with her, and her spirit must be calmed by the coroners fully discovering the pain she suffered and offering relief. Her spirit causes "Let the Sunshine In" to play on radios as an apparent ironic statement as Jane herself has suffered greatly. Tommy discusses how Austin's mom Ray had a lot of pain going on underneath the "sunshine" personality she projected to the world, and he deeply regrets not being able to see the depression she lived with until her suicide. Lastly, the radio at the end says it's been several days of sunshine when from the protagonists' perspective, a horrendous storm was going on at the time of the autopsy, indicating that the darkness they uncovered wasn't noticed by anybody else and [[spoiler:Jane may continue to suffer in sunshine henceforth]].

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* FlatEarthAtheist: Tommy keeps trying to rationalize everything that's happening and deny that supernatural forces are at work long after it's clear that there is no scientific explanation for what is going on.



* FlatEarthAtheist: Tommy keeps trying to rationalize everything that's happening and deny that supernatural forces are at work long after it's clear that there is no scientific explanation for what is going on.
* FliesEqualsEvil: One of the first unusual things encountered by the Tildens is a fly making its way out of Jane Doe's right nostril.



** Jane Doe's compressed stomach which Austin speculates was caused by a corsets hints that [[spoiler: Jane is from a time when Corsets would normally be worn]], and the blood coming out of Jane Doe's body hints that [[spoiler: she is still alive]].

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** Jane Doe's compressed stomach which Austin speculates was caused by a corsets hints that [[spoiler: Jane is from a time when Corsets corsets would normally be worn]], and the blood coming out of Jane Doe's body hints that [[spoiler: she is still alive]].



* FliesEqualsEvil: One of the first unusual things encountered by the Tildens is a fly making its way out of Jane Doe's right nostril.



* SouthernGothic: Subtle, very low-key, but still present on all levels of the story and the setting. Also, the dialogues treat American North East as some sort of far away land, while the story takes place in ''Virginia''.

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* SouthernGothic: Subtle, very low-key, but still present on all levels of the story and the setting. Also, the dialogues treat American North East Northeast as some sort of far away land, while the story takes place in ''Virginia''.



* WickedWitch: Jane Doe.

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* WickedWitch: Jane Doe.Doe might have been one in life.

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*ItsAllMyFault: While hiding in the elevator, Tommy confesses to his son that he blames himself for not catching onto the signs of his deceased wife's suicidal tendencies in time to save her life. He also states that it's his own fault for not recognizing the events surrounding Jane's autopsy for what they were [[spoiler: in time to spare himself and Austin of the mortal danger they were in]].



* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Not one to live in denial, Tommy says, "Let's get the fuck outta here," at the first undeniable sign of supernatural goings on.

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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Not one to live in denial, Tommy says, "Let's get the fuck outta here," at the first undeniable sign of supernatural goings on.on (though it's debatable whether he could have recognized it much sooner).

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