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* AdultFear: Curtis's nightmares often involve his daughter getting harmed.
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* GiantWallOfWateryDoom: [[spoiler: if what Curtis seems coming towards the beachhouse at the end is real.]]
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* GiantWallOfWateryDoom: [[spoiler: if what Curtis seems sees coming towards the beachhouse at the end is real.]]
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* GiantWallOfWateryDoom: [[spoiler: if what Curtis seems coming towards the beachhouse at the end is real.]]
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* MadnessSharedByTwo: This is one interpretation for the end. Curtis begins to obsess over a catastrophic storm that appears to him in dreams and visions. His wife Samantha tries desperately to help him because his mother has schizophrenia. [[spoiler:However, at the end, Sam is trying to help him recover by going to a beach house. It closes with a POV shot from Sam's perspective that reveals a storm coming over the beachfront. It ends there, leaving it ambiguous whether his vision has come true or whether Sam is experiencing a shared hallucination with Curtis.]]
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Bad Dreams was renamed by TRS due to misuse. IDK if the context here fits the trope so I removed it to be safe.
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* BadDreams: How it all started.
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* DreamingOfThingsToCome: Curtis isn't sure if his dreams are an example of this trope, or just him going mad. It doesn't help that his dreams are seemingly apocalyptic, featuringoily rain and people driven mad.
* DysfunctionalFamily: Curtis's family, to some degree. His mot-he r is in a mental hospital and his brother is estranged from him, and Curtis may be losing his mind.
* DysfunctionalFamily: Curtis's family, to some degree. His mot-he r is in a mental hospital and his brother is estranged from him, and Curtis may be losing his mind.
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* DreamingOfThingsToCome: Curtis isn't sure if his dreams are an example of this trope, or just him going mad. It doesn't help that his dreams are seemingly apocalyptic, featuringoily featuring oily rain and people driven mad.
* DysfunctionalFamily: Curtis's family, to some degree. Hismot-he r mother is in a mental hospital and his brother is estranged from him, and Curtis may be losing his mind.
* DysfunctionalFamily: Curtis's family, to some degree. His
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* ArcWords: Curtis constantly references being "left behind", and not "leaving [his family] behind" due to [[MommyIssues being abandoned his schizophrenic mother as a child]].
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* DreamingOfThingsToCome: Curtis isn't sure if his dreams are an example of this trope, or just him going mad. It doesn't help that his dreams are seemingly apocalyptic, featuring oily rain and people driven mad.
* DysfunctionalFamily: Curtis's family, to some degree. His mother is in a mental hospital and his brother is estranged from him, and Curtis may be losing his mind.
* DysfunctionalFamily: Curtis's family, to some degree. His mother is in a mental hospital and his brother is estranged from him, and Curtis may be losing his mind.
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* DreamingOfThingsToCome: Curtis isn't sure if his dreams are an example of this trope, or just him going mad. It doesn't help that his dreams are seemingly apocalyptic, featuring oily featuringoily rain and people driven mad.
* DysfunctionalFamily: Curtis's family, to some degree. Hismother mot-he r is in a mental hospital and his brother is estranged from him, and Curtis may be losing his mind.
* DysfunctionalFamily: Curtis's family, to some degree. His
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* TheFaceless: The faces of strangers in Curtis's dreams are always blurry or obscured.
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* TheFaceless: The faces of strangers in Curtis's dreams are always blurry or obscured.obscured, which is also disturbingly TruthInTelevision.
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* FreudianExcuse: Curtis was abandoned by his own mother and so is terrified by the prospect of losing Samantha and Hanna.
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* HelpfulHallucinations: [[spoiler: if the ending is real]].
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* HelpfulHallucinations: HelpfulHallucination: [[spoiler: if the ending is real]].
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* HelpfulHallucinations: [[spoiler: if the ending is real]].
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* SanitySlippage: Whatever theory you subscribe to with regard to the film's ending, one thing is certain either way: Curtis's health and emotional well-being get worse and worse throughout the movie.
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* SanitySlippage: Whatever theory you subscribe to with regard to the film's ending, one thing is certain either way: Curtis's health and emotional well-being get worse and worse throughout the movie.The Movie. [[spoiler:Then again, maybe not — see AmbiguousEnding above.]]
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* SanitySlippage: Whatever theory you subscribe to with regard to the film's ending, one thing is certain either way: Curtis's health and emotional well-being get worse and worse throughout the movie.
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* AdultFear: Curtis's nightmares often involve his daughter getting harmed.
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* BerserkerTears: Curtis, after the blowout at a community dinner.
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* NotSoStoic: For a good portion of the movie, Curtis tries to keep his anxieties under wraps — up to the moment when he can't.
* ParentalAbandonment: Curtis's mother left him alone in the car when he was 10 and ran away; after this event he made a promise to himself to never leave his family behind.
* ParentalAbandonment: Curtis's mother left him alone in the car when he was 10 and ran away; after this event he made a promise to himself to never leave his family behind.
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* AloneWithThePsycho: In the storm shelter, Curtis' interactions with his wife take on this tone when she repeatedly asks him to open the shelter and he repeatedly refuses.
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* AloneWithThePsycho: In [[spoiler:In the storm shelter, Curtis' interactions with his wife take on this tone when she repeatedly asks him to open the shelter and he repeatedly refuses.]]
** The mention of how good Curtis's work insurance is.
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* DysfunctionalFamily: Curtis's family, to some degree. His mother is in a mental hospital and his brother is estranged from him.
* TheEndingChangesEverything: If you subscribe to the ending-is-real theory.
* TheEndingChangesEverything: If you subscribe to the ending-is-real theory.
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* DysfunctionalFamily: Curtis's family, to some degree. His mother is in a mental hospital and his brother is estranged from him.
him, and Curtis may be losing his mind.
* TheEndingChangesEverything:If [[spoiler:If you subscribe to the ending-is-real theory.]]
* TheEndingChangesEverything:
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* AmbiguousEnding: [[spoiler:The storm at the end of the movie. Did Curtis's nightmares come true, or was it just another nightmare?]]
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* GainaxEnding: [[spoiler:Did Curtis's nightmares come true, or was it just another nightmare?]]
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* VaguenessIsComing: The PowersThatBe - if his hallucinations are really true - aren't being really clear. Curtis even delivers this as a character in the page quote.
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* BookEnds: The movie begins and ends with the "motor oil" rain falling and a massive storm coming.
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* BookEnds: {{Bookends}}: The movie begins and ends with the "motor oil" rain falling and a massive storm coming.
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A construction worker in Elyria, Ohio named Curtis [=LaForche=] begins having apocalyptic dreams about a terrible storm. At first dismissing them as being from stress, the dreams become more and more intense. Worried about the welfare of his family, Curtis begins a paranoid project of expanding the storm shelter in his backyard.
However, Curtis's mother is schizophrenic. Realizing that he might be manifesting symptoms of her disease, he starts seeing doctors about possible entering treatment. Torn between an unshakeable conviction that something terrible is about to happen, and the fear that he might be going crazy, Curtis's life begins to fall apart.
However, Curtis's mother is schizophrenic. Realizing that he might be manifesting symptoms of her disease, he starts seeing doctors about possible entering treatment. Torn between an unshakeable conviction that something terrible is about to happen, and the fear that he might be going crazy, Curtis's life begins to fall apart.
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A construction worker in Elyria, Ohio named Curtis [=LaForche=] begins having apocalyptic dreams about a terrible storm. At first dismissing them as being from stress, Curtis soon can't ignore them anymore as the dreams become more and more intense.intense, causing him to act erratically in real life. Worried about the welfare of his family, Curtis begins a paranoid project of expanding the storm shelter in his backyard.
However, it's revealed that Curtis's mother is schizophrenic. Realizing that he might be manifesting symptoms of her disease, he starts seeing doctors aboutpossible possibly entering treatment. Torn between an unshakeable conviction that something terrible is about to happen, and the fear that he might be going crazy, Curtis's life begins to fall apart.
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However, it's revealed that Curtis's mother is schizophrenic. Realizing that he might be manifesting symptoms of her disease, he starts seeing doctors about
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* NoAntagonist: The hero has to face himself.
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2011 film written and directed by Creator/JeffNichols and starring Creator/MichaelShannon and JessicaChastain.
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2011 film written and directed by Creator/JeffNichols and starring Creator/MichaelShannon and JessicaChastain.
Creator/JessicaChastain.
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* AStormIsComing: TheMovie.
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* AStormIsComing: TheMovie.
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* GainaxEnding: [[spoiler:Did Curtis's nightmares come true, or was it just another nightmare]].
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* GainaxEnding: [[spoiler:Did Curtis's nightmares come true, or was it just another nightmare]].nightmare?]]
