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* WallSlump: The son does this when he leaves his room and discovers his parents on the stairs, dead in a murder-suicide.
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* WallSlump: The son does this when he leaves his room and discovers his parents on the stairs, dead in a murder-suicide.murder-suicide.
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* MasturbationMeansSexualFrustration:
** Early in the film the wife catches her son masturbating in his room. This is what drives her to cut off her son's penis after she's unable to cut off her husband's.
** Later in the film, both the son (after he's castrated) and the father (after he donates his penis to his son) masturbate via rubbing themselves raw and bloody with a rough stone. Supposedly this results in a climax, and in the film at least, it works.
** Early in the film the wife catches her son masturbating in his room. This is what drives her to cut off her son's penis after she's unable to cut off her husband's.
** Later in the film, both the son (after he's castrated) and the father (after he donates his penis to his son) masturbate via rubbing themselves raw and bloody with a rough stone. Supposedly this results in a climax, and in the film at least, it works.
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* FanDisservice: Most of the sex in this movie, really, but maybe especially when the mother is giving a handjob to her own son, while weeping in guilt/shame.
* GratuitousEnglish: All of the weird news stories that the man finds on the internet about penis transplants and masturbation via scraping yourself raw and bloody with a rock and such, are all in English.
* ImagineSpot: The mother, who earlier has given her son a handjob, comes into his room again for sex--but this time it's an imagine spot from the boy, who was fantasizing while he masturbates. In reality the father has killed both himself and his mother just outside.
* ImagineSpot: The mother, who earlier has given her son a handjob, comes into his room again for sex--but this time it's an imagine spot from the boy, who was fantasizing while he masturbates. In reality the father has killed both himself and his mother just outside.
* MurderSuicide: The father, after seeing his wife going to their son for sex again, kills her and then himself.
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* WallSlump: The son does this when he leaves his room and discovers his parents on the stairs, dead in a murder-suicide.
* WallSlump: The son does this when he leaves his room and discovers his parents on the stairs, dead in a murder-suicide.
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[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bfb5b449_b240_472f_bf05_cb4e4e73a1e4.jpeg]] ''Moebius'' is a 2013 drama directed by Kim Ki-duk.
A wife, overwhelmed with hatred for her adulterous husband, inflicts an unspeakable wound on their son as the family heads towards horrific destruction. The film is told without any spoken dialogue.
Don't confuse it with [[Film/Moebius1996 the Argentinian movie of the same name]] where a train on the Buenos Aires subway system suddenly vanishes.
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!!The series includes examples of:
* AutoErotica: After the husband meets the mistress for dinner they have sex in his car in the parking lot. It's not very sexy, since both the son and the wife have separately found them there and are watching.
* BloodyHilarious: Your mileage may vary as to how much of this film is disturbing and how much of it is over-the-top comedy. But the scene where the gang leader's freshly severed penis is tossed out into the street, and he cries out in despair as it is repeatedly run over by trucks, is obviously meant as gory farce.
* BullyMagnet: The son becomes this at school after the other teenagers find out about his mutilation.
* TheBusCameBack: The third act plays out after the wife, who has been completely absent during the whole middle part of the film about weird masturbation and penis transplants, returns unannounced to the home.
* CripplingCastration: The mother castrates her son to punish her husband.
* DeathGlare: The wife when the husband's phone rings and she knows the mistress is calling.
* GoryDiscretionShot: The actual castration is offscreen.
* ImAHumanitarian: The mother eats her son’s penis after castrating him.
* KubrickStare: Right after the wife cuts the son's penis off, the husband gestures for her to give him the knife. She gives him a truly scary sideways Kubrick Stare (also shown on the film's poster) and then eats her son's penis.
* LadyDrunk: The wife in the first shot of the movie, in what is also an EstablishingCharacterMoment. She is sitting on the stairs, in a disheveled state of dress, swilling wine in the morning. She is already aware of her husband's affair.
* TheLoinsSleepTonight: The son's newly transplanted penis won't get erect when he watches porn, or when the mistress tries manual and oral stimulation, which isn't that surprising. But it ''does'' work for his mom...
* MatchCut: A match cut from the son opening the door to his room to the husband opening the door to the house. The latter reveals the cops, who have shown up to arrest the son for rape.
* NamelessNarrative: None of the characters are identified beyond their roles; the mother, father, son, etc.
* ParentalIncest: This occurs between the mother and son after he is given the father’s penis.
* PhallicWeapon: About as obvious as this trope ever gets. Among the sadomasochistic ways that one can supposedly get sexual pleasure is by the friction of a knife in the body after one gets stabbed. So the mistress stabs the son in the shoulder, then, by grabbing the handle of the knife and wiggling it back and forth, stimulates the son to climax.
* PlotIncitingInfidelity: The father’s affair is what sparks the plot.
* RagingStiffie: Everybody in the family is surprised when the son's newly transplanted penis, which seemed nonfunctional, gets quite erect in the presence of his mom.
* RapeAsDrama: The mistress is gang-raped at her place of work (a convenience store) by the group of thugs that the son has taken up with. The son fakes penetrating the mistress in order to hide his mutilation from his new friends.
* ReallyGetsAround: The mistress has never even met the son before, but makes an immediate sexual come-on to him as soon as he comes inside the convenience store, exposing her breasts.
* SignificantDoubleCasting: The same actress, Lee Na-ra, plays both the wife and the mistress. This is thematically appropriate considering the film's themes of sexual obsession and incest.
* SilenceIsGolden: There is no spoken dialogue in the film.
A wife, overwhelmed with hatred for her adulterous husband, inflicts an unspeakable wound on their son as the family heads towards horrific destruction. The film is told without any spoken dialogue.
Don't confuse it with [[Film/Moebius1996 the Argentinian movie of the same name]] where a train on the Buenos Aires subway system suddenly vanishes.
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!!The series includes examples of:
* AutoErotica: After the husband meets the mistress for dinner they have sex in his car in the parking lot. It's not very sexy, since both the son and the wife have separately found them there and are watching.
* BloodyHilarious: Your mileage may vary as to how much of this film is disturbing and how much of it is over-the-top comedy. But the scene where the gang leader's freshly severed penis is tossed out into the street, and he cries out in despair as it is repeatedly run over by trucks, is obviously meant as gory farce.
* BullyMagnet: The son becomes this at school after the other teenagers find out about his mutilation.
* TheBusCameBack: The third act plays out after the wife, who has been completely absent during the whole middle part of the film about weird masturbation and penis transplants, returns unannounced to the home.
* CripplingCastration: The mother castrates her son to punish her husband.
* DeathGlare: The wife when the husband's phone rings and she knows the mistress is calling.
* GoryDiscretionShot: The actual castration is offscreen.
* ImAHumanitarian: The mother eats her son’s penis after castrating him.
* KubrickStare: Right after the wife cuts the son's penis off, the husband gestures for her to give him the knife. She gives him a truly scary sideways Kubrick Stare (also shown on the film's poster) and then eats her son's penis.
* LadyDrunk: The wife in the first shot of the movie, in what is also an EstablishingCharacterMoment. She is sitting on the stairs, in a disheveled state of dress, swilling wine in the morning. She is already aware of her husband's affair.
* TheLoinsSleepTonight: The son's newly transplanted penis won't get erect when he watches porn, or when the mistress tries manual and oral stimulation, which isn't that surprising. But it ''does'' work for his mom...
* MatchCut: A match cut from the son opening the door to his room to the husband opening the door to the house. The latter reveals the cops, who have shown up to arrest the son for rape.
* NamelessNarrative: None of the characters are identified beyond their roles; the mother, father, son, etc.
* ParentalIncest: This occurs between the mother and son after he is given the father’s penis.
* PhallicWeapon: About as obvious as this trope ever gets. Among the sadomasochistic ways that one can supposedly get sexual pleasure is by the friction of a knife in the body after one gets stabbed. So the mistress stabs the son in the shoulder, then, by grabbing the handle of the knife and wiggling it back and forth, stimulates the son to climax.
* PlotIncitingInfidelity: The father’s affair is what sparks the plot.
* RagingStiffie: Everybody in the family is surprised when the son's newly transplanted penis, which seemed nonfunctional, gets quite erect in the presence of his mom.
* RapeAsDrama: The mistress is gang-raped at her place of work (a convenience store) by the group of thugs that the son has taken up with. The son fakes penetrating the mistress in order to hide his mutilation from his new friends.
* ReallyGetsAround: The mistress has never even met the son before, but makes an immediate sexual come-on to him as soon as he comes inside the convenience store, exposing her breasts.
* SignificantDoubleCasting: The same actress, Lee Na-ra, plays both the wife and the mistress. This is thematically appropriate considering the film's themes of sexual obsession and incest.
* SilenceIsGolden: There is no spoken dialogue in the film.
