History Film / Utoya22Juli

* ObligatoryEarpieceTouch: Averted for effect. It looks like Kaja [[BreakingTheFourthWall talks to the audience]] when she does her AsideComment in the opening scene. This is just because there is no visual cue for us to know that she is talking to her mum via earpiece until she turns her head.

* ActionFilmQuietDramaScene: The film intersperses survival drama with quiet emotional scenes like the interaction of Kaja [[StayWithMeUntilIDie with the injured girl]] or Kaja and Magnus [[PlanningForTheFutureBeforeTheEnd talking about their aspirations]].

* IfWeGetThroughThis: The girl shot in the shoulder asks Kaja to tell her mother that she thought of her and that she loved her.

* PlanningForTheFutureBeforeTheEnd:
** We know that the girl with the shoulder wound is doomed once Kaja urges her to imagine herself at the mother's cabin by the sea.
** 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. The theatrical edition somewhat subverts this by showing that Kaja doesn't really believe anything that she says.

* DramaticSlip: One girl falls and presumably breaks her ankle when running from the cafe. kaja slips herself later while running through the forest.

* BrokenAesop: {{Title Cascmism. 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.

* ActionFilmQuietDramaScene: The film intersperses survival drama with quiet emotional scenes like the interaction of Kaja [[StayWithMeUntilIDie with the blond girl]] or Kaja and Magnus [[PlanningForTheFutureBeforeTheEnd talking about their aspirations]].

* PleaseWakeUp: Kaja cannot believe that the the blond girl has died and shakes her in disbelieve.

* StayWithMeUntilIDie: The blond girl pleads for Kaja to stay by her side.

* ClosedCicrle: The victims are trapped on an island.

* ActionFilmQuietDramaScene: The film intersperses survival drama with quiet emotional scenes like the ineraction of Kaja [[StayWithMeUntilIDie with the blond girl]] or Kaja and Magnus [[PlanningForTheFutureBeforeTheEnd talking about their aspirations]].

* ActionFilmQuietDramaScene: The film intersperses survival drama with quiet emotional scenes like with Kaja [[StayWithMeUntilIDie and the blond girl]] or Kaja and Magnus [[PlanningForTheFutureBeforeTheEnd talking about their aspirations]].

* BrokenAesop: {{Title Cards]] in the opening scene and the epilogue state 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.

** We only see the attacker twice, as a silhouette.

* TheGreatestStoryNeverTold: A significant part of [[spoiler:Kaja's]] story is this due to [[spoiler:Kaja's death.]]

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: The very beginning of the film has Kaja look directly at the camera and say "You'll never understand. At least try to listen." Turns out she was talking to her mother on the phone, accidentally summarizing the impact of the movie while doing so.

* 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. The theatrical edition somewhat subverts this by showing that Kaja doesn't really believe anything that she says.

* {{Tragedy}}: Kaja's desire to help others, including her sister, combined with her lacking any skills or knowledge useful during a shooting, results in her failing to help others, falling more and more in [[DespairEventHorizon despair]] and [[spoiler: dying due to a stupid mistake on her part, just before she could be rescued.]]

* 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, in the Berlinale release 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.]]

* TheGreatestStoryNeverTold: a significant part of [[spoiler:Kaja's]] story is this due to [[spoiler:Kaja's death.]]

* TooDumbToLive: Towards the end of the the movie, [[spoiler:Kaja, who until then was quite levelheaded, suddenly leaves her hiding place and goes to the open beach. Upon coming there she discovers four dead people, who all were clearly shot just a couple minutes ago. Rather than retreating or finding a new hiding place, she proceeds to argue loudly with Magnus, while standing near the corpses, completely in the open. Predictably, she gets shot and it's a wonder that Magnus isn't killed as well. The whole scene creates an impression that the director was frantically searching for a way to kill her off. ]]

* ImprobableAimingSkills: The shot that [[spoiler: killed Kaja instantly.]] came from quite a distance.

* ItsAllMyFault: Kaja blames herself for every person she couldn't save.

* TheOner: With the exception of the opening footage showing the bombing in Oslo, the ''entire'' film is shot like this, to show in real-time how the shooting played out for some of its victims and how long it lasted.

* 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!).

* 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. Furthermore, the film uses the same amount of gunshots that Breivik used, meaning that at this point the Terrorist is, narrative-wise, out of bullets.

* ImprobableAimingSkills: The shot that [[spoiler: killed Kaja.]]. The shot is quite distant yet [[spoiler: Kaja doesn't even have time to utter any 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.]]

* ExtremelyShortTimeSpan: The attack on Utøya is given in real time, so 72 minutes of film rely to 72 minutes of attack. Even if one takes Oslo bomb footage into account, the film still covers only three hours.

* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Kaja can't help stopping to help others while on the run. [[spoiler: Ultimately she gets killed because of this.]]

* BreakTheCutie: when Kaja sees the corpses on the beach, [[spoiler: including the little boy]], she clearly loses it. The theatrical version makes it even more clear.

* AdultFear: The film shows exactly what your children can suffer if they are caught in a shooting. In particular it shows that no matter how clever and levelheaded they are, they can still die, and in a horrible way.

* 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.

* 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. Fully averted in the theatrical release, where [[spoiler: Kaja goes down immediately after the shot, but continues to whisper until the second shot silences her]].

** The lack of LaserGuidedKarma is also deliberate. It shows that even those victims who reacted selfish were not to blame for it, as they were standing under extreme fear and stress.

* VasquezAlwaysDies: [[spoiler: The tough Kaja dies while her little sister Emilie survives and rescues others]].

* 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 Oda who tells Kaja she has seen Emilie on the beach also qualifies.

** Magnus saying that he just came to the island for a chance to meet with girls and is not from the Left, implying he does not deserve to be killed. [[spoiler: In a subversion, Magnus survives.]]

* RealityIsUnrealistic:
** [[spoiler:Emilie ]] is implied to swim all the way to the shore to get help. This indeed happened - some victims indeed swam over 300 meters to a 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 ways ([[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.]]