Follow TV Tropes

Following

History Film / Brooklyn45

Go To

OR

Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* BittersweetEnding: Extremely bitter. [[spoiler:Half the cast are killed because of the seance with the rest traumatized by the events. The only bright spot is that the survivors are forced to confront their war crimes and move on from the trauma of the war with Archie deciding to stop running from his past and turn himself in. They also might have killed an innocent woman due to their Germanophobia.]]

to:

* BittersweetEnding: Extremely bitter. [[spoiler:Half the cast are killed because of the seance with the rest traumatized by the events. The only bright spot is that the survivors are forced to confront their war crimes and move on from the trauma of the war with Archie deciding to stop running from his past and turn himself in. They also might have killed an innocent woman due to their Germanophobia.Germanophobia and fear.]]



* {{Fingore}}: [[spoiler:Marla does this Hildy during her AdvancedInterrogation, piercing her fingertip with a needle.]]

to:

* {{Fingore}}: [[spoiler:Marla does this Hildy during her AdvancedInterrogation, piercing her fingertip with a needle. Paul later gets this with Bob accidentally shooting off his fingers in a panic.]]

Added: 354

Changed: 39

Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* BittersweetEnding: Extremely bitter. [[spoiler:Half the cast are killed because of the seance with the rest traumatized by the events. The only bright spot is that the survivors are forced to confront their war crimes with Archie deciding to stop running from his past and turn himself in. They also might have killed an innocent woman due to their Germanophobia.]]

to:

* BittersweetEnding: Extremely bitter. [[spoiler:Half the cast are killed because of the seance with the rest traumatized by the events. The only bright spot is that the survivors are forced to confront their war crimes and move on from the trauma of the war with Archie deciding to stop running from his past and turn himself in. They also might have killed an innocent woman due to their Germanophobia.]]


Added DiffLines:

* ShellShockedVeteran: All of the cast are clearly haunted by the war to varying degrees. [[spoiler:It later turns out a lot of them engaged in some serious war crimes and haven't grown past their hatred of Germans. The seance forces them to confront their past, admit that the Nazis are gone, the war is over, and they have to stop living in the past.]]

Added: 907

Changed: 347

Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* AbsoluteXenophobe: [[spoiler:Aside from Marla, all of the cast treat Hildy like a Nazi just because she's a German immigrant. An undead Hock demands she die regardless of innocence.]]



* BittersweetEnding: Extremely bitter. [[spoiler:Half the cast are killed because of the seance with the rest traumatized by the events. The only bright spot is that the survivors are forced to confront their war crimes with Archie deciding to stop running from his past and turn himself in. They also might have killed an innocent woman due to their Germanophobia.]]



* {{Fingore}}: [[spoiler:Marla does this Hildy during her AdvancedInterrogation, piercing her fingertip with a needle.]]



* MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning

to:

* MyDeathIsJustTheBeginningMyDeathIsJustTheBeginning: [[spoiler:Hock's death kicks off the supernatural events of the plot.]]



* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler: Hildy accuses Susan of this. Hock fell into this after his wife died.]]

to:

* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler: Hildy accuses Susan of this. Hock fell into this after his wife died.died and everyone else starts slipping after Hock kills himself and the seance goes wild.]]




to:

* VillainProtagonist: [[spoiler:All of the characters are war criminals who committed various atrocities during World War II, including killing non-combatants, torture, and illegal orders.]]
* YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame: [[spoiler:When Paul praises Marla as the finest woman the American military has ever known after she does AdvancedInterrogation on Hildy. She dismisses his praise, clearly disgusted what she had to do.]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


The movie is set after WorldWarII. Five people gather for drinks at Clive "Hock" Hockstatter's house. Clive is a recent widower who is still mourning his wife, who recently died by suicide. Hock's grief leads him into a dark place...and drags his friends with him.

to:

The movie is set just after WorldWarII.UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. Five people gather for drinks at Clive "Hock" Hockstatter's house. Clive is a recent widower who is still mourning his wife, who recently died by suicide. Hock's grief leads him into a dark place...and drags his friends with him.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/large_brooklyn_45_movie_poster_2023.jpg]]

Brooklyn 45 is a supernatural thriller directed by Ted Geoghegan about a group of military veterans holding an impromptu séance in the parlor of a Brooklyn brownstone at the close of World War II.

The movie is set after WorldWarII. Five people gather for drinks at Clive "Hock" Hockstatter's house. Clive is a recent widower who is still mourning his wife, who recently died by suicide. Hock's grief leads him into a dark place...and drags his friends with him.

----
!!This film provides examples of:


* AteHisGun: [[spoiler: After reaching out for Susan's arm and unwittingly ending the seance, Hock grabs his pistol and blows his brains out. ]]
* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler: Bob kills Paul and Hildy this way.]]
* ClosedCircle: Everyone is trapped in the parlor until they make a decision. [[spoiler: When Archie begs to be let out even if it's to heaven or hell, the doors open to reveal the children's shelter he bombed completely blocking the door.]]
* DynamicEntry: Hildy bashes down a closet door and falls out with her hands and feet tied.
* GhastlyGhost: Susan makes an appearance to accuse Hildy of murdering her.
* MarionetteMotion: [[spoiler: At one point Hock sits up and begins violently bashing his face into the table. Blood splatters all over the walls. When he finishes, his face is squashed into an *entirely new shape* and his teeth are hanging out of his mouth.]]
* MutilationInterrogation: Marla, who interrogated spies during the war, interrogates Hildy about her possible Nazi ties, holding a long, thin needle in her hand for incorrect or delayed answers. The needle ends up in Hildy's thumb.
* MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning
* QuietingTheUnquietDead: The friends attempt to finish the seance to lay the dead to rest and open the door. [[spoiler: It doesn't work.]]
* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler: Hildy accuses Susan of this. Hock fell into this after his wife died.]]
* ShootOutTheLock: Attempted by Archie.
* SpookySeance: Hock leads one to attempt to talk to his deceased wife.
* SuicideNotMurder: Susan accuses Hildy of staging her death to be this.
* TechnicalPacifist: Bob. Paul picks at him constantly for it.
* TheParanoiac: Susan became this at the end of her life, accusing Hildy of being a Nazi spy. [[spoiler: It's unknown if she was right or not.]]
* TheUnreveal: [[spoiler: No one finds out if Hildy is a Nazi or not. ]]
* VengefulGhost: Susan is one. [[spoiler: Hock becomes one after his death.]]

----

Top