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* AlcoholicParent: [[spoiler: Sarah’s mother, who doubles as TheReveal, as she doesn’t work in Nigeria, as Sarah tells everyone.]]
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Sarah.]] [[spoiler:She]] berates and abuses [[spoiler: Charlie]] throughout the film and [[spoiler:her]] comeuppance feels like LaserGuidedKarma.
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Sarah.]] [[spoiler:She]] berates and abuses [[spoiler: Charlie]] throughout the film and [[spoiler:her]] comeuppance feels like LaserGuidedKarma.
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* BathroomStallGraffiti: After Sarah reveals the truth about Charlie's sex life, someone (presumably Sarah) writes insults about her all over the bathroom walls, school desks, lockers, and walls.
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* BathroomStallGraffiti: After Sarah [[spoiler: Sarah]] reveals the truth about Charlie's sex life, someone (presumably Sarah) [[spoiler: Sarah]]) writes insults about her all over the bathroom walls, school desks, lockers, and walls.
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* BerserkButton: [[spoiler: Sarah doesn’t take it well when Charlies admits stalking her and learning about her alcoholic mother (who definitely doesn’t work in Nigeria, as Sarah told everyone) and threatens to kill her if she tells anyone.]]
* BewareOfTheNiceOnes: [[spoiler: Charlie, who endures Sarah’s emotional abuse, readily forgives her and even supports her after Sarah gets hits by her mother.]]
* BullyingADragon: [[spoiler: Sarah openly taunts Charlie inside ‘’Charlie’s own house’’ when she comes to collect her things. That’s ‘’after’’ the Gaslighting she has put Charlie through during the bigger part of the film. Charlie, [[RageBreakingPoint in a fit of rage]], [[VorpalPillow suffocates her with a pillow]].]]
* BewareOfTheNiceOnes: [[spoiler: Charlie, who endures Sarah’s emotional abuse, readily forgives her and even supports her after Sarah gets hits by her mother.]]
* BullyingADragon: [[spoiler: Sarah openly taunts Charlie inside ‘’Charlie’s own house’’ when she comes to collect her things. That’s ‘’after’’ the Gaslighting she has put Charlie through during the bigger part of the film. Charlie, [[RageBreakingPoint in a fit of rage]], [[VorpalPillow suffocates her with a pillow]].]]
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* DisproportionateRetribution: [[spoiler: Sarah]] abruptly becomes cold and aggressive to Charlie, after she introduces [[spoiler: her]] as a classmate and not as a friend.
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* FairWeatherFoe: [[spoiler: Sarah, when she shows up at Charlie's house crying because her alcoholic mother hit her. Charlie [[EasilyForgiven forgives and supports her immediately]].]]
* FreudianExcuse: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] during the New Year’s party. [[spoiler: Charlie tells Sarah that [[StalkerWithoutACrush she followed her home one day]], [[TheReveal learned]] about her [[AlcoholicParent alcoholic mother]] and that she believes that Sarah isn’t a mean person.]]
* {{Gaslighting}}: [[spoiler: Sarah’s method of abusing Charlie. After she freezes Charlie out once during their holidays, she warms to her when they return to school and alternates chaotically between these behaviours. She even [[BlamingTheVictim blames Charlie by projecting her abusive behaviour to her]].]]
* FreudianExcuse: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] during the New Year’s party. [[spoiler: Charlie tells Sarah that [[StalkerWithoutACrush she followed her home one day]], [[TheReveal learned]] about her [[AlcoholicParent alcoholic mother]] and that she believes that Sarah isn’t a mean person.]]
* {{Gaslighting}}: [[spoiler: Sarah’s method of abusing Charlie. After she freezes Charlie out once during their holidays, she warms to her when they return to school and alternates chaotically between these behaviours. She even [[BlamingTheVictim blames Charlie by projecting her abusive behaviour to her]].]]
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* RageBreakingPoint: Charlie, twice. [[spoiler: The first time is against a girl in her class, whom Sarah gifts with a necklace she was given by Charlie's mom and the second time is against Sarah herself.]]
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* TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler: Charlie kills Sarah with a pillow, after the {{Gaslighting}} she has endured and [[TooDumbToLive Sarah’s taunts inside her own house]].]]
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* SugarAndIcePersonality: Sarah is extremely warm and friendly but then freezes Charlie out for no apparent reason.
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* SugarAndIcePersonality: Sarah is extremely warm and friendly but then freezes Charlie out for no apparent reason.reason.
* VorpalPillow: [[spoiler:How Charlie kills Sarah.]]
* VorpalPillow: [[spoiler:How Charlie kills Sarah.]]
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* RightThroughTheWall: Charlie hears her parents having sex through the wall on her eighteenth birthday.
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* AsthmaPeril: Charlie has asthma. She pushes herself too hard while running after Sarah on the track and collapses.
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* DramaPanes: When she sees Sarah outside the school, Charlie reaches up and touches the window as if she were touching Sarah.
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* SugarAndIcePersonality: Sarah is extremely warm and friendly but then freezes Charlie out for no apparent reason.
* WindowPain: When she sees Sarah outside the school, Charlie reaches up and touches the window as if she were touching Sarah.reason.
* WindowPain: When she sees Sarah outside the school, Charlie reaches up and touches the window as if she were touching Sarah.
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* PopularityCycle: Sarah briefly appears to worship Charlie. When they hit a brief rough patch, Sarah then ostracizes Charlie and stops talking to her except to insult her.
* SugarAndIcePersonality: Sarah is extremely warm and friendly but then freezes Charlie out for no apparentreason.reason.
* WindowPain: When she sees Sarah outside the school, Charlie reaches up and touches the window as if she were touching Sarah.
* SugarAndIcePersonality: Sarah is extremely warm and friendly but then freezes Charlie out for no apparent
* WindowPain: When she sees Sarah outside the school, Charlie reaches up and touches the window as if she were touching Sarah.
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* BathroomStallGraffiti: After Sarah reveals the truth about Charlie's sex life, someone (presumably Sarah) writes insults about her all over the bathroom walls, school desks, lockers, and walls.
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* BathroomStallOfOverheardInsults: Charlie is in the bathroom when she hears [[spoiler:Sarah sharing Charlie's secret that she and Lucas didn't have sex because she found it too painful.]]
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* {{Tsundere}}: Both Charlie and Sarah have a streak of this.
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* ItsACostumePartyISwear: Played with. The New Year's party is ''supposed'' to be a costume party, but the theme gets canceled at the last minute. Sarah doesn't tell Charlie.
* SugarAndIcePersonality: Sarah is extremely warm and friendly but then freezes Charlie out for no apparent reason. \n* {{Tsundere}}: Both Charlie and Sarah have a streak of this.
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* ButNotTooBi: Sarah and Charlie discuss having sex with boys, but also kiss each other.
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* SugarAndIcePersonality: Sarah is extremely warm and friendly but then freezes Charlie
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''Respire'' (''Breathe'') is a 2014 French film, and the second to be directed by Creator/MelanieLaurent. Charlie (Joséphine Japy) is struggling at home when she meets cool NewTransferStudent, Sarah (Lou de Laâge). However, when Sarah pulls away from Charlie, their friendship takes an ominous and obsessive turn.
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