History Film / BigBadWolves

''Big Bad Wolves'' (original title ''Mi Mefakhed mehaZe'ev haRa‘''[[labelnote:Hebrew]]Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf[[/lablenote]]) is 2013 Israeli thriller film. A series of brutal child murders puts the lives of three men on a collision course: The father of the latest victim now out for revenge, a vigilante police detective operating outside the boundaries of law, and the main suspect in the killings--a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanakh Tanakh]] teacher arrested and released due to a police blunder.

''Big Bad Wolves'' (original title ''Mi Mefakhed mehaZe'ev haRa‘''[[lablenote:Hebrew]]Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf[[/lablenote]]) is 2013 Israeli thriller film. A series of brutal child murders puts the lives of three men on a collision course: The father of the latest victim now out for revenge, a vigilante police detective operating outside the boundaries of law, and the main suspect in the killings--a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanakh Tanakh]] teacher arrested and released due to a police blunder.

A 2013 Israeli thriller and black comedy film. A series of brutal child murders puts the lives of three men on a collision course: The father of the latest victim now out for revenge, a vigilante police detective operating outside the boundaries of law, and the main suspect in the killings--a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanakh Tanakh]] teacher arrested and released due to a police blunder.

A 2013 Israeli thriller and black comedy film. A series of brutal child murders puts the lives of three men on a collision course: The father of the latest victim now out for revenge, a vigilante police detective operating outside the boundaries of law, and the main suspect in the killings--a religious studies teacher arrested and released due to a police blunder.

* TurnInYourBadge: Tsvika first sends Micki to Traffic when the first [[JackBauerInterrogationTechnique interrogation technique]] used on Dror fails and the girl dies, then temporarily fires him until the public forgets about the incident.

A 2013 Israeli thriller and black comedy film. A series of brutal child murders puts the lives of three men on a collision course: The father of the latest victim now out for revenge, a vigilante police detective operating outside the boundaries of law, and the main suspect in the killings - a religious studies teacher arrested and released due to a police blunder.

* TurnInYourBadge: Tsvika first sends Micki to Traffic when the first [[JackBauerInterrogtionTechnique interrogation technique]] used on Dror fails and the girl dies, then temporarily fires him until the public forgets about the incident.

* DefiantToTheEnd: [[spoiler: Dror, in a rare villainous example.]]

** The drugged cake.
** One of the nails out of the box Gidi drops.
** The discarded bicycle outside of Gidi’s house.
* ChekhovsGunman: The Arab on the horse

* HenpeckedHusband: Yoram is henpecked by his wife, Malka. She nags him about his medication, forced him to become vegetarian and prohibits him from smoking.

* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler: Dror dies moments after giving a bone-chilling Slasher Smile.]]

* GratuitousEnglish: The abandoned house in the beginning has a graffito reading "Ritalin" on it.

* WhenIWasYourAge: Malka talks about how people of Gidi’s generation divorce way too easily.

* BadassIsraeli: Several; Gidi, Micki, and Gidi's father.
* BadassGrandpa: Gidi's father, who, as an older Israeli, has obviously seen some shit.

** The discarded bicycle outside of Gidi's house.

* ColdBloodedTorture: Happens to Dror. Twice.
* CulturalTranslation: Rami calls the three men turturing Dror the ‘Ma Kashur trio’ (a popular Israeli comedy troupe); it was translated as ‘Film/TheThreeStooges’ (who are virtually unknown in Israel).

* DeliberateValuesDissonance: The real estate agent and Gidi's father make disparaging comments about living in a house surrounded by Arab communities.
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Dror dies without revealing where Micki's daughter is (or for that matter where the heads of his previous victims were) and the cops don't find the hidden room she's being kept in]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: The camera pointedly shows Dror hanging his bicycle up on a hook in his house. In the end, it's revealed that [[spoiler:he keeps his victims in a hidden room behind the bicycle]].
* FreudianThreat: Yoram threatens to blow-torch Dror's crotch after asking Gidi if he'd like a hot dog.
* GoodCopBadCop: Micki asks Gidi who should be the good cop and bad cop. Gidi says that there's no room for good cops.

* InformedAttribute: People keep referring to Dror as short. Although the actor is scrawny and nonthreatening, he's about as tall as the rest of the cast.
* HenpeckedHusband: Yoram is henpecked by his wife. She nags him about his medication, forced him to become vegetarian and prohibits him from smoking.
* MyBelovedSmother: Gidi's mother is a henpecking wife and a smothering mother. She ignores Gidi's protests and forces Yoram to visit him with a bowl of soup when Gidi claims to be sick.

* PetTheDog: Gidi treats an Arab man who rides past his porch with respect, addressing him in Arabic and even handing him the cigarette he just rolled, showing that he's a decent man when his daughter's killer isn't involved.
* PoliceBrutality: Micki does this for the first time when he 'interrogates' Dror. Unfortunately for him, someone happened to be video taping it, and he was fired.

* RussianRoulette: Micki plays this on Dror in an attempt to get him to talk, adding a bullet to the revolver after each trigger pull. It's unclear whether he's rigging the game or not.
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: It's implied that Gidi uses some overly highbrow language when speaking to the somewhat dim-witted Micki, although this gets a bit LostInTranslation in the English subtitles, which have Micki confused by words like "flutter."
* SlasherSmile: [[spoiler: Dror does this moments before he dies.]]
* ShoutOut: Gidi calls Dror a [[Franchise/TheSmurfs Smurf]], one of several lines implying that Dror is short.

* WhamLine: When Micki calls his police chief and instead finds himself talking to his wife, [[spoiler: panicking because their daughter has gone missing: "She hasn't answered her phone since you picked her up from ballet yesterday!"]]

* CulturalTranslation: Rami calls the three men turturing Dror the ‘Ma Kashur trio’ (a popular Israeli comedy troupe); it was translated as ‘TheThreeStooges’ (who are virtually unknown in Israel).

* GroinAttack: Yoram threatens to blow-torch Dror's crotch after asking Gidi if he'd like a hot dog.

* TapOnTheHead: Gidi knocks Dror and Micki out cold with a shovel-blow to the back of the head.

* [[spoiler: GoOutWithASmile]]: [[spoiler: Dror dies moments after giving a bone-chilling SlasherSmile.]]

* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler: Dror dies moments after giving a bone-chilling SlasherSmile.]]

* [[spoiler: EvilAllAlong: Dror was the killer after all.]]

An Israeli film about a series of brutal murders puts the lives of three men on a collision course: The father of the latest victim now out for revenge, a vigilante police detective operating outside the boundaries of law, and the main suspect in the killings - a religious studies teacher arrested and released due to a police blunder.

* {{Badass}}
** BadassIsraeli: Several; Gidi, Micki, and Gidi's father.
** BadassGrandpa: Gidi's father.

* GoodCopBadCop: Micki asks Gidi who should be the good cop and bad cop. Gidi says they're both the bad cop.

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Gidi is on one because his daughter was killed and he suspects Dror.