History Film / Utoya22Juli

* PluckyGirl: Kaja and, as we find out in the end, [[spoiler: Emilie, who returned in the boat to rescue others.]]

* {{Mundanger}}: The attacker is just an ordinary heavily armed human, yet the the film is as horrifying as {{Film/Cloverfield}}.

* InstantDeathBullet: Mostly averted, with wounds taking its toll slowly, but played straight with [[spoiler: Kaja herself]]. Again, the theatrical release averts that with [[spoiler: Kaja being hit by two shots, with the first letting her utter some last words, before the second then plays the trope straight.]]

* FinalGirl: [[spoiler: In a subversion, Magnus. Kaja dies.]]

* TheBadGuyWins: The terrorist is able to kill or maim lots of people, and seems unimpeded at the end of movie. In RealLife, by the time the police arrested Breivik, he had already given up the rampage and was waiting to be arrested.

->''You'll never understand. At least try to listen."''
-->--'''Kaja''' talking to her mother and accidentally summarizing the impact of the movie .

* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler: Kaja herself]], whose story is comprised of several accounts of ''survivors''. Also [[spoiler: the little boy]], whom Breivik actually spared and another was able to swim away safely.

''Utøya 22. juli'', also known as ''U: 22 July'' by Erik Poppe is a reenactment of the Breivik Massacre (which happened [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin on the island Utøya on 22. July 2011]]) from the perspective of the victims. Out of respect for the victims, the film features fictional characters instead of people actually there. The film is mostly portrayed from the POV of Kaja, an 18 year old girl with political aspirations, as she runs for her life while also trying to care for others amid the shooting. The film was shot in a single take with the exception of the footage of the Oslo bomb explosion. Note that the Berlinale take is not the same take that later came into regular cinema theaters, and there are subtle changes between them.

* UncertainDoom: We see [[spoiler: Kaja going down after the shot]], apparently dead, but we don't stay to see if [[spoiler:she]] died or was merely wounded. In reality, most of those with a single wound survived. The theatrical release averts this by [[Kaja being hit with two shots, but survival is still a possibility]] The [[spoiler: man in the boat]] is also wounded and we do not know if [[spoiler: he ]] makes it.

** One of the girls deciding to swim to mainland justifies her decision to leave others behind with "I'm gonna live!". Kaja later finds her corpse on the beach.

* TheVoiceless: The terrorist never utter a single word. Notable because in reality, Breivik was talking a lot, sometimes to bait his victims out of their hiding places (he was wearing a police uniform), sometimes to mock them, and sometimes just to swear.

** The film repeatedly points out that the police and other authorities failed the youngsters, be it pointing out that the press helicopter got here before the police, or by the text in the end. It also shows how helpless the youngsters must have felt (sometimes overplaying the situation), and that while they not always behaved optimally ([[spoiler: Kaja]] demonstrating ThirdActStupidity comes to mind), that doesn't mean they were stupid or cowardly - they just didn't know what to do, ''unlike'' the authorities, which really should react faster.
** The film goes to great length to draw the whole attention to the victims and deny it to the attacker. The latter gets [[TheVoiceless no lines]], [[NoNameGiven no name,]] and no platform to express his reasons.

** "I can" [[spoiler: the little boy, before running into the forest. We don't see him again until his death.]]
** "I want to my Mommy!" [[spoiler: wounded girl.]]
** "I'm gonna live!" [[spoiler: the girl who joins those trying to swim to mainland, Berlinale edition.]]
** "She's where we bathed yesterday" [[spoiler: Oda, answering Kaja's question about Emilie. Sadly, this indirectly results in Kaja's death.]]
** "Oh God!" [[spoiler: unspecified victim]]
** "But Emilie..." [[spoiler: Kaja, Berlinale version. She is killed before saying anything else]]
** "Magnus...Magnus..." [[spoiler: Kaja, theatrical version]]
* FinalGirl: [[spoiler: in a subversion, Magnus. Kaja dies.]]

* GutPunch: The moment where the wounded girl dies. At this moment one understands what the tragedy goes underway. The multiple corpses on the beach. And then [[spoiler: Kaja's death]].

** When the teenagers see the helicopter coming, however one of then then points out it's press and not the police.

* ImprobableAimingSkills: the shot that [[spoiler: killed Kaja.]]. The shot is quite distant yet [[spoiler: Kaja doesn't even have time to utter last words before dying]]. Averted in the theatrical release, where the shooter was relatively close [[spoiler: and Kaja did have time to talk after the first shot, only the second one silencing her.]]

* InverseDialogueDeathRule: [[InvertedTrope Inverted -]] The nameless wounded girl gets about 5 minutes of dying speech, [[spoiler: Kaja herself]] gets less than a second, even a ReallyDeadMontage is denied to [[spoiler: her]] as the plot continues. In the theatrical edition[[spoiler: Kaja does get a little time to utter last words, and a ReallyDeadMontage, but still dies very quickly.]]

* KarmaHoudini: The youngsters in the cavern who deny Kaja entry escape safely [[spoiler: with help from Kaja's sister no less!!]]. This was [[WriterOnBoard done deliberately]] by the writers to show that they don't actually condemn those youngsters for their refusal to let Kaja in - the were simply in panic.

* MortonsFork: The victims are trapped on an island, no evacuation is underway (unlike in reality) and there are no effective hiding places - the forest is too light, the rocks too open to really hide. You have only two choices: run from the place where shots are heard to some other place until you are eventually picked off, or swim hundreds of meters to the mainland through very cold water (despite summer) and either likely drown, or, if you jump in the water right before the shooter approaches, become an even easier target. The theatrical edition underrscores the latter by showing a corpse floating in the water.

* NotQuiteSavedEnough: [[spoiler: the little boy whom Kaja directs into the forest, only for him to be killed later. And in a sense, Kaja herself, surviving one dangerous situation after another, only to die in the end.]]

* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Swimming to the mainland (over 600 m through cold seawater) is presented as nearly impossible, yet it's implied that [[spoiler: Emilie, the main heroine's sister did this, got somebody with a boat to help, and returned with him to the island, despite all the danger.]]

* PoliceAreUseless: No police appears on the island for more than 70 minutes. Sadly this was TruthInTelevision - the ending credits point out that the police failed the victims by appearing way too late. Trying to underscore this is also the reason so many deaths happen in the later stages of the movie [[spoiler: including Kaja herself]].

** Kaja, having neither medical training nor right utensils, cannot stop the wounded girl from bleeding to death. The jacket could have helped with a leg or arm wound, but not with the wound the girl had.

** [[spoiler:Emilie ]] is implied to swim all the way to the shore to get help. This indeed happened - some victims indeed swam over 300 meter to nearby island and alerted the campers there, who in turn went out with their boats and started rescuing those who couldn't swim the whole way.
** The victims behaving in non-optimal way ([[spoiler: the little boy keeping his jacket, Kaja standing in the open]]) seem like the writers just handed them the IdiotBall, but this is based on reality. As the book "One of Us" by Asne Seierstad reveals, many of the victims chose inadequate hiding, and when discovered just stayed in place waiting to be shot, not even trying to run away. When the ''real'' police finally arrived, many youngsters mistook them for Breivik's accomplices - and while some just hid deeper, others actually left their hiding place and ''asked to be shot'', having [[DespairEventHorizon abandoned all hope.]]

''Utøya 22. juli'', also known as ''U: 22 July'' by Erik Poppe is a reenactment of the Breivik Massacre (which happened [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin on the island Utøya on 22. July 2011]]) from the perspective of the victims. Out of respect for the victims, the film features fictional characters instead of people actually being there. The film is mostly portrayed from the POV of Kaja, an 18 years old girl with political aspirations, as she runs for her life while also trying to care for others amid the shooting. The film was shot in a single take with the exception of the footage of the Oslo bomb explosion. Note that the Berlinale take is not the same take that later came into regular cinema theatres, and there are subtle changes between them.

* AdaptationExpansion: In the film, Kaja twice meets a young boy no more than 8-10 years or so, [[spoiler:the second time finding him dead]]. In the real event, the youngest victim of the shooting was 14 years old. There ''was'' an 11-year old boy at the real shooting, but he was actually someone Breivik saw and let live. [[note]] Breivik had killed the boy's father to which the boy stood up to Breivik and asked him to not kill him too, he was "too young to die". For whatever reason, Breivik conceded. (There would be more people he aimed at, then changed his mind before shooting others instead.) Atother little boy boy, also present at the island, managed to swim away safely. [[/note]]
* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: The shot that [[spoiler: killed Kaja]] could not have happened this way in reality. [[note]] See the map here: [[https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/norway-massacre-anders-breiviks-route-144335]]; while Breivik indeed killed people on the East end of the beach, justifying the corpses lying there, this (marked "7") happened ''before'' he started shooting people in the rocks from the West (marked "8"), and he never returned to the beach. He also almost always fired in salvos, not single shots, and only two victims out of 69 died from a single wound not to the head, contrary to about 30 gunshot survivors, so [[spoiler: Kaja should have survived even if shot]] [[/note]]
** The theatrical version rectifies this somewhat (albeit not completely) by changing the timing, but introduces another plot hole with the press helicopter appearing very early, throwing the question of didn't the police try to use it. In reality, it had only beat the police by a few minutes, too late for them to change plans.

* CompositeCharacter: Kaja whose story is composed from several RealLife survivors' accounts [[spoiler: and her death freely invented]].

** The theatrical reslease downplays this as it is shot on a cloudy da, and the lack of light contributes to the depressing atmosphere.

** The theatrical version rectifies this somewhat (albeit not completely) by changing the timing, but introduces another plot hole with the press helicopter appearing very early, throwing the question of didn't the police try to use it. In reality, it had only beat the police by a few minutes, too late for them to change the plans.

** ->''I can'' [[spoiler: the little boy, before running into the forest. We don't see him again until his death.]]
** ->''I want to my Mommy'' - [[spoiler: wounded girl.]]
** ->''I'm gonna live!'' - [[spoiler: the girl who joins those trying to swim to mainland, Berlinale edition.]]
** ->''She's where we bathed yesterday'' - [[spoiler: Oda, answering Kaja's question about Emilie. Sadly, this indirectly results in Kaja's death.]]
** ->''Oh God!'' - [[spoiler: unspecified victim]]
** ->''But Emilie...'' - [[spoiler: Kaja, Berlinale version. She is killed before saying anything else]]
** ->''Magnus...Magnus..'' [[spoiler: Kaja, theatrical version]]

* IfWeGetThroughThis: Kaja at one point hides with Magnus and the two start talking about what they would be doing if they were at home, and what kind of jobs they want in life.

* ImprobableAimingSkills: the shot that [[spoiler: killed Kaja.]]. The shot is quite distant yet [[spoiler: Kaja doesn't even have time to utter last words before dying]]. Averted in the theatrical release, where the shooter was relatively close.

* ImprobableAimingSkills: the shot that [[spoiler: killed Kaja.]]. The shot is quite distant yet [[spoiler: Kaja doesn't even have time to utter last words before dying]].
* InstantDeathBullet: Mostly averted, with wounds taking its toll slowly, but played straight with [[spoiler: Kaja herself]].
* InverseDialogueDeathRule: [[InvertedTrope Inverted -]] The nameless wounded girl gets about 5 minutes of dying speech, [[spoiler: Kaja herself]] gets less than a second, even a ReallyDeadMontage is denied to [[spoiler: her]] as the plot continues.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: The phrase that Utøya is the "safest place on the world" is lifted from a documentation about the Utøya shooting, which uses the phrase as a title. [[spoiler: The girl uttering the phrase dies in the latter phase of the shooting. So does Kaja (though her story before is, as above, taken from survivors]]. In the theatrical release, [[spoiler: Kaja foreshadows her death by showing that she neither expects nor actually wants to survive at that point]].

''Utøya 22. juli'', also known as ''U: 22 July'' by Erik Poppe is a reenactment of the Breivik Massacre (which happened [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin on the island Utøya on 22. July 2011]]) from the perspective of the victims. Out of respect for the victims, the film features fictional characters instead of people actually being there. The film is mostly portrayed from the POV of Kaja, an 18 years old girl with political aspirations, as she runs for her life while also trying to care for others amid the shooting. The film was shot in a single take with the exception of the footage of the Oslo bomb explosion.

* AdaptationExpansion: In the film, Kaja twice meets a young boy no more than 8-10 years or so, [[spoiler:the second time finding him dead]]. In the real event, the youngest victim of the shooting was 14 years old. There ''was'' an 11-year old boy at the real shooting, but he was actually someone Breivik saw and let live. [[note]] Breivik had killed the boy's father to which the boy stood up to Breivik and asked him to not kill him too, he was "too young to die". For whatever reason, Breivik conceded. (There would be more people he aimed at, then changed his mind before shooting others instead.)[[/note]]

* BreakTheCutie: when Kaja sees the corpses on the beach, [[spoiler: including the little boy]], she clearly loses it.

* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler: Kaja herself]], whose story is comprised of several accounts of ''survivors''. Also [[spoiler: the little boy]], whom Breivik actually spared and who was later able to swim away safely.
* DeathIsDramatic: The lengthy wounded girl's death scene, the horror we feel when Kaja discovers the corpses on the beach. Subverted with [[spoiler: Kaja herself, whose death takes less than a second of a screen time, after which we switch to Magnus' escape plot.]]
* DespairEventHorizon: Kaja crosses it when she sees the corpses on the beach. One of them is a little boy whom Kaja directed into forest earlier.

* DroppedABridgeOnHer: [[spoiler: Kaja. In a film where random characters have lengthy death scenes with lots of last words (wounded girl) or a long corpse scene to signify the horror of their death (little boy), Kaja gets neither. She is suddenly shot just before she can answer a silly line by Magnus, she appears OK at first, then keels over without as much as a sound. She gets NO last words, not even a ReallyDeadMontage. Worse, ''the camera itself'' betrays her - rather than stay with her in her last moments, it switches immediately to Magnus (who before that had, like 10 minutes of screen time) and concentrates on his escape, showing no more consideration for Kaja.]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: The phrase that Utøya is the "safest place on the world" is lifted from a documentation about the Utøya shooting, which uses the phrase as a title. [[spoiler: The girl uttering the phrase dies in the latter phase of the shooting. So does Kaja (though her story before is, as above, taken from survivors]]

* GutPunch: The moment where the wounded girl dies. At this moment one understands what the tragedy goes underway. And then [[spoiler: Kaja's death]].

* KilledOffScreen: [[spoiler: The little boy]], the girl who suggested to swim to mainland, and others.

* MortonsFork: The victims are trapped on an island, no evacuation is underway (unlike in reality) and there are no effective hiding places - the forest is too light, the rocks too open to really hide. You have only two choices: run from the place where shots are heard to some other place until you are eventually picked off, or swim hundreds of meters to the mainland through very cold water (despite summer) and either likely drown, or, if you jump in the water right before the shooter approaches, become an even easier target.

** In the end [[spoiler: Kaja's]] penchant for taking unnecessary risks catches up with [[spoiler: her]], leading to [[spoiler: her]] being shot and presumably killed.

** The victims behaving in non-optimal way ([[spoiler: the little boy keeping his jacket, Kaja standing in the open]]) seem like the writers just handed them the IdiotBall, but this is based on reality. As the book "One of Us" by Asne Seierstad reveals, many of the victims chose inadequate hiding, and when discovered just stayed in place waiting to be shot. When the ''real'' police finally arrived, many youngsters mistook them for Breivik's accomplices - and while some just hid deeper, others actually left their hiding place and ''asked to be shot'', having [[DespairEventHorizon abandoned all hope.]]

* RunOrDie: The victims, being unarmed and mentally unprepared for a terrorist assault, can't do anything against the terrorist who can rapidly hit them at large distances (> 20 meters), and is protected by a helmet and a bulletproof vest, making stones useless. This is exacerbated by the fact that people attending the Utøya camp were mostly non-aggressive. They can only run.
* ShootTheShaggyDog: [[spoiler:Kaja attempts not just to survive, but also to help others. Unfortunately, all her heroic attempts are for nothing. She stops to help a wounded girl and bandages her wound - but the internal bleeding continues and the girl dies. She directs a small boy into the forest - but near the end she finds out he is murdered. Finally, she leaves her hiding place to search for her sister, then hesitates when there is an opportunity to escape the island by boat - and is shot and killed mere moments before the boat arrives and her sister is there. The only result of her selfless actions is getting herself uselessly killed. To top it off, even the POV camera abandons her in the end - rather than concentrate on her in her last moments (as was the case with every other victim before), we just switch to the PluckyComicRelief character who safely escapes by boat, with the film showing no more consideration for her.]]
* SurprisinglySuddenDeath: Despite the nature of the film, [[spoiler:it's played out in a way that makes you think Kaja will either survive to tell the tale, or alternatively, that ''if'' she dies, then her death will build the climax of the entire film, given that we continuously follow her POV and her story is based of the accounts of RealLife survivors of the event, only for Kaja to be suddenly and unceremoniously shot at the very end, with the camera not even lingering on her body but immediately leaving her and switching to Magnus]]

* UncertainDoom: We see [[spoiler: Kaja going down after the shot]], apparently dead, but we don't stay to see if [[spoiler:she]] died or was merely wounded. In reality, most of those with a single wound survived. The [[spoiler: man in the boat]] is also wounded and we do not know if [[spoiler: he ]] makes it.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Emilie loses her phone during the attack and doesn't think about using somebody else's phone to call Kaja. This drives Kaja to search for her sister, [[spoiler: and results in Kaja's death]]. The girl who tells Kaja she has seen Emilie on the beach also qualifies.

* YouAreAlreadyDead: After [[spoiler: Kaja is shot, she ]] just moves her head towards the sound at first, as if having only heard it, then collapses on the ground.

* XMeetsY: ''Film/FridayThe13th1980'' meets ''Film/ComeAndSee''.
** Kaja is [[Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire Ned Stark]] Meets Ofelia from ''Film/PansLabyrinth''. [[spoiler: Her survival chances are about the same as for those two.]]

* LastBreathBullet: Both the timing of the film and the fact that no shots are fired after the one that [[spoiler: killed Kaja]] suggest that the attacker surrendered afterwards, even though we never see the police.

* RunOrDie: The victims, being unarmed and mentally unprepared for a terrorist assault, can't do anything against the terrorist who can rapidly hit them at large distances (> 20 meters), and is protected by a helmet and a bulletproof vest, making stones useless. This is exacerbated by the fact that people attending the Utøya camp were mostly nonaggressive. They can only run.

* AmateurCast: None of the actors has (major) roles in cinema before. The lead actress was previously playing in theater, while many extras had no prior experience at all. This can sometimes be noticable.

* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler: Kaja herself]], whose story is comprised of several accounts of ''survivors''. Also [[spoiler: the little boy]], whom Breivik actually spared Android Whisky was later able to swim away safely.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: The phrase that Utøya is the "safest place on the world" is lifted from a documentation about the Utøya shooting, which uses the phrase as a title. [[spoiler: The girl uttering the phrase dies in the latter phase of the shooting. So does Kaja (though her story before is , as above, taken from survivors]]

* NotQuiteSavedEnough: [[spoiler: the little boy whom Kaja directs into the forest, only for him to be killed later. And in a sence, Kaja herself, surviving one dangerous situation after another, only to die in the end.]]

* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: The shot that [[spoiler: killed Kaja]] could not have happened this way in reality. [[note]] See the map here: [[https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/norway-massacre-anders-breiviks-route-144335]]; while Breivik indeed killed people on the East end of the beach, justifying the corpses lying there, this (marked "7") happened ''before'' he started shooting people in the rocks from the West (marked "8"), and he never returned to the beach. He also almost always fired in salvos, not single shots, and only two victims out of 68 died from a single wound not to the head, contrary to about 30 gunshot survivors, so [[spoiler: Kaja should have survived even if shot]] [[/note]]

* BrokenAesop: [[WordOfGod The director stated]] that the aim of the film is to show the danger of right-wing extremism. But since all Breivik's motives and his phrases (he was reportedly shouting "Die marxists!" during his rampage) are cut from the film, there is nothing left to support this thesis.

* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler: Kaja herself]], whose story is comprised of several accounts of ''survivors''. Also [[spoiler: the little boy]], whom Breivik actually spared Android Whisky was älter ablehnen to swim away safely.

** Kaja, having neither medical training nor right utensils, cannot stop the wounded girl from bleeding to death. The jacket coukld have helped with a leg or arm wound, but not with the wound the girl had.

* UncertainDoom: We see [[spoiler: Kaja going down after the shot]], apparently dead, but we don't stay to see if [[spoiler:she]] died or was merely wounded. In reality, most of those with a single wound survived. The [[spoiler: man in the boat]] is also wounded and we do not know if [[spoiler:he ]] makes it.

* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler: Kaja herself]], whose story is comprised of several accounts of ''survivors''. Also [[spoiler: the little boy]], whom Breivik actually spared.

* FailureHero: Kaja. Everything she tries to do fails. The wounded girl dies, [[spoiler: the little boy whom she directed to the rocks]] also dies and her sister Emilie [[ spoiler: did not need rescue in the first place. Instead Emilie rescues others, '''and''' would have rescued Kaja if the latter hadn't gotten herself killed just before]].

* RecycledInSpace: The film can be described as {{''Film/Cloverfield''}} [[BasedOnATrueStory BASED ON A REAL SHOOTING]], or as ''Film/FridayThe13th1980'' [[BasedOnATrueStory BASED ON A REAL SHOOTING]] (and it's also Friday!).

* RecycledInSpace: The film can be described as {{Film/Cloverfield}} [[BasedOnATrueStory BASED ON A REAL SHOOTING]]

* UncertainDoom: We see [[spoiler: Kaja going down after the shot]], apparently dead, but we don't stay to see if she died or was merely wounded. In reality, most of those with a single wound survived. The [[spoiler: man in the boat]] is also wounded and we do not know if [[spoiler:he ]] makes it.

** The film goes to great length to draw the whole attention to the victims and deny it to the attacker. The latter gets [[TheVoiceless no lines]], [[NoNameGiven, no name]] and no platform to express his reasons.

* Mundanger: The attacker is just an ordinary heavily armed human, yet the the film is as horrifying as {{Film/Cloverfield}}.