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* CracksInTheIcyFacade: Roger East starts off as a gruff and selfish cynic who doesn't care about East Timor's plight. The first indicator he isn't as much of an asshole as he seems is when he kindly teaches a young child how to flip a coin. Sure enough, he eventually comes to genuinely care about what happens to the small country and ultimately chooses to remain in East Timor during the Indonesian invasion as a foreign correspondent.
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* ApocalypticLog: Greg Shackleton's newsreel on the plight of the Timorese people becomes this, as well as [[spoiler:Roger East's desperate news telegram to Sydney while the invasion escalates and soldiers are closing in on him]].
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* CowardiceCallout: José calls Roger "a fucking coward" who solely cares about himself and his career, unfavorably contrasting him to the five Australian journalists who had the guts to come and try to show the world the horrors that were happening.
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** Joao is soft-spoken and polite almost to a fault.
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** Joao is soft-spoken and polite almost to a fault.
* ObligatoryWarCrimeScene: The Indonesians repeatedly and ruthlessly execute civilians, with José and Roger at one point discovering an entire village massacred to the last man.
* ObligatoryWarCrimeScene: The Indonesians repeatedly and ruthlessly execute civilians, with José and Roger at one point discovering an entire village massacred to the last man.
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* MightyWhitey: Averted hard. [[spoiler:Both Roger and the Balibo Five fail to accomplish anything meaningful in the grand scheme of things, and their efforts to help result in them being killed by the TNI.]]
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* MultipleGunshotDeath: [[spoiler:Roger]] is executed by being shot with a sub-machine gin, riddling him with bullets.
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''Balibo'' is a 2009 Australian war film directed by Robert Connolly and starring Creator/AnthonyLaPaglia and Creator/OscarIsaac, focusing on the early days of the Indonesian invasion of East Timor and Roger East's investigation into the fate of [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balibo_Five the Balibo Five]].
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''Balibo'' is a 2009 Australian war film directed by Robert Connolly and starring Creator/AnthonyLaPaglia and Creator/OscarIsaac, focusing on the early days of the Indonesian invasion of East Timor and Roger East's investigation into the fate murder of [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balibo_Five the Balibo Five]].
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: The usually cheerful and amiable José snaps and gives Roger a ''vicious'' TheReasonYouSuckSpeech for prioritizing the deaths of the Balibo Five over the countless East Timoreans killed by the Indonesians.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: The usually cheerful and amiable José snaps and gives Roger a ''vicious'' TheReasonYouSuckSpeech for prioritizing the deaths of the Balibo Five over the countless East Timoreans Timorese civilians killed by the Indonesians.
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* RapidFireNo: Roger [[spoiler:right before he's executed by firing squad.]]
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* RapidFireNo: Roger [[spoiler:right [[spoiler:Roger]] right before he's executed by firing squad.]]
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* AnyoneCanDie: With the exception of [[spoiler:José and Juliana]], the entire cast is dead by the end of the movie.
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* AnyoneCanDie: With the exception of [[spoiler:José [[spoiler:José]], [[spoiler:Juliana]], and Juliana]], possibly [[spoiler:Joao]], the entire cast is dead by the end of the movie.
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* DefiantToTheEnd: Downplayed. [[spoiler:Roger]] begs for his life before being executed, but he also repeatedly insults his killers before they shoot him.
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* BreakTheCutie: CheerfulChild Juliana is traumatized by wtinessing the invasion of Dili and [[spoiler:Roger]]'s execution.
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* BreakTheCutie: CheerfulChild Juliana is shown to be traumatized and broken by wtinessing the invasion Indonesian occupation of Dili and [[spoiler:Roger]]'s execution.East Timor in the present day.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: The usually cheerful and amiable José snaps and gives Roger a ''vicious'' TheReasonYouSuckSpeech for prioritizing the deaths of the Balibo Five over the countless East Timoreans killed by the Indonesians.
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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: The usually cheerful and amiable José snaps and gives Roger a ''vicious'' TheReasonYouSuckSpeech for prioritizing the deaths of the Balibo Five over the countless East Timoreans killed by the Indonesians.
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* ManlyFacialHair: Tough-as-nails FREMIJIN fighter Ximenez sports a beard.
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* ManlyFacialHair: Tough-as-nails FREMIJIN FRETILIN fighter Ximenez sports a beard.
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Freelance journalist Roger East ([=LaPaglia=]) is approached by East Timorese Foreign Minister José Ramos-Horta (Isaac) with the offer to head the country's government news agency, to document an impending Indonesian invasion. Though East declines, he looks into it and discovers that five Australian journalists - Greg Shackleton (Damon Gameau), Malcolm Rennie (Nathan Philips), Gary Cunningham (Gyton Grantley), Brian Peters (Thomas Wright), and Tony Stewart (Mark Winter) - had entered before him and gone missing. Deciding to investigate, he enters the country, and - with Horta's aid - begins tracing their steps to discover their fate. Intercut with their storyline are flashbacks to the journalists's ill-fated journey into Balibo to cover the beginning of the Indonesian invasion.
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Freelance journalist Roger East ([=LaPaglia=]) is approached by East Timorese Foreign Minister politician José Ramos-Horta (Isaac) with the offer to head the country's government news agency, to document an impending Indonesian invasion. Though East declines, he looks into it and discovers that five Australian journalists - Greg Shackleton (Damon Gameau), Malcolm Rennie (Nathan Philips), Gary Cunningham (Gyton Grantley), Brian Peters (Thomas Wright), and Tony Stewart (Mark Winter) - had entered before him and gone missing. Deciding to investigate, he enters the country, and - with Horta's aid - begins tracing their steps to discover their fate. Intercut with their storyline are flashbacks to the journalists's ill-fated journey into Balibo to cover the beginning of the Indonesian invasion.
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* DespairEventHorizon: José crosses it after the village massacre. He manages to recover after being promoted to Foreign Minister.
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* BreakTheComedian: The wisecracking José is left emotionally broken after discovering the village slaughtered and crosses the DespairEventHorizon. While he recovers, he remains much more serious than he was prior.
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Freelance journalist Roger East ([=LaPaglia=]) is approached by East Timorese Foreign Minister José Ramos-Horta (Isaac) with the offer to head the country's state news agency, to document an impending Indonesian invasion. Though East declines, he looks into it and discovers that five Australian journalists - Greg Shackleton (Damon Gameau), Malcolm Rennie (Nathan Philips), Gary Cunningham (Gyton Grantley), Brian Peters (Thomas Wright), and Tony Stewart (Mark Winter) - had entered before him and gone missing. Deciding to investigate, he enters the country, and - with Horta's aid - begins tracing their steps to discover their fate. Intercut with their storyline are flashbacks to the journalists's ill-fated journey into Balibo to cover the beginning of the Indonesian invasion.
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Freelance journalist Roger East ([=LaPaglia=]) is approached by East Timorese Foreign Minister José Ramos-Horta (Isaac) with the offer to head the country's state government news agency, to document an impending Indonesian invasion. Though East declines, he looks into it and discovers that five Australian journalists - Greg Shackleton (Damon Gameau), Malcolm Rennie (Nathan Philips), Gary Cunningham (Gyton Grantley), Brian Peters (Thomas Wright), and Tony Stewart (Mark Winter) - had entered before him and gone missing. Deciding to investigate, he enters the country, and - with Horta's aid - begins tracing their steps to discover their fate. Intercut with their storyline are flashbacks to the journalists's ill-fated journey into Balibo to cover the beginning of the Indonesian invasion.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: José delivers a brutal one to Roger after he seemingly cares more about the Balibo Five than the East Timorean village he just saw massacred.
* RefusedTheCall: Roger declines José's offer to head the East Timorean state news agency, and only enters the country to figure out what happened to the Balibo Five. He ultimately accepts his offer at the end, [[spoiler:which sadly results in him being at ground zero of the Indonesian invasion]].
* RefusedTheCall: Roger declines José's offer to head the East Timorean state news agency, and only enters the country to figure out what happened to the Balibo Five. He ultimately accepts his offer at the end, [[spoiler:which sadly results in him being at ground zero of the Indonesian invasion]].
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: José delivers a brutal one to Roger after he seemingly cares more about the Balibo Five than the East Timorean Timorese village he just saw massacred.
* RefusedTheCall: Roger declines José's offer to head the EastTimorean state Timorese government news agency, and only enters the country to figure out what happened to the Balibo Five. He ultimately accepts his offer at the end, [[spoiler:which sadly results in him being at ground zero of the Indonesian invasion]].
* RefusedTheCall: Roger declines José's offer to head the East
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* TheGoodShepherd: Padre Silva, a Portuguese priest who refuses to abandon his parishioners even if it means he'll likely die during the Indonesian invasion.
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* TheGoodShepherd: GoodShepherd: Padre Silva, a Portuguese priest who refuses to abandon his parishioners even if it means he'll likely die during the Indonesian invasion.
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* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler:Gary is shot in the head by an Indonesian military officer whole trying to negotiate the Balibo Five's safety.]]
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* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler:Gary is shot in the head by an Indonesian military officer whole while trying to negotiate the Balibo Five's safety.]]
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* ForTheEvulz: The Indonesian military ruthlessly slaughters all civilians in sight in spite of it providing no tactical advantage whatsoever.
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* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: During the invasion of Dili, women are segregated and raped by Indonesian soldiers.
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* NiceGuy: José is perpetually friendly and laid-back, and tolerates a lot of Roger's cowardice and stiffness with nothing but affability.
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* NiceGuy: MoralityPet: Joao and Juliana are the only people Roger consistently treats kindly.
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** José is perpetually friendly and laid-back, and tolerates a lot of Roger's cowardice andstiffness rudeness with nothing but affability.affability.
** Joao is soft-spoken and polite almost to a fault.
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** José is perpetually friendly and laid-back, and tolerates a lot of Roger's cowardice and
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* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler:Joao]] chooses to remain in Dili in spite of the impending invasion, but what happens to him is never shown, though it's implied he was killed by Indonesian soldiers.
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* TheGoodShepherd: Father Silva, a Portuguese priest who refuses to abandon his parishioners even if it means he'll likely die during the Indonesian invasion.
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* TheGoodShepherd: Father Padre Silva, a Portuguese priest who refuses to abandon his parishioners even if it means he'll likely die during the Indonesian invasion.
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* SurprisinglySuddenDeath: [[spoiler:Gary]] is suddenly shot in the head while trying to negotiate with an Indonesian military officer.
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* SurprisinglySuddenDeath: [[spoiler:Gary]] is suddenly shot in the head while trying to negotiate with an Indonesian military officer.officer.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Roger and José, who are prone to semi-joking bickering and occasionally provoke each other into actual fights.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Roger and José, who are prone to semi-joking bickering and occasionally provoke each other into actual fights.
