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2 | --> ''Show me your world'' |
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4 | ''Sightseers'' is a 2012 British black comedy directed by Creator/BenWheatley, and written by and starring Alice Lowe and Steve Oram. |
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6 | Downtrodden thirtysomething Tina gets out from under her mother's thumb for long enough to go on a caravan holiday with her new boyfriend Chris. Tina soon finds out that Chris is a killer, but she doesn't find this off-puttting - she finds it inspiring. |
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8 | !! Tropes appearing in this film: |
9 | * AdvertisingByAssociation: It's "From the makers of ''Film/HotFuzz'', ''Film/{{Paul}}'' & ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead''". Of course, Wright only [[{{Producers}} produced]] this film, not wrote and directed it. |
10 | * BerserkButton: Chris has several. Starting with littering. |
11 | * BookEnds: |
12 | ** "Tainted Love" by Soft Cell plays when Chris and Tina are driving away from Tina's mother's house. "Tainted Love" by Gloria Jones plays over the end credits. |
13 | ** Chris commits his murders by [[spoiler: running over his first victim, pushing his second off a cliff, and the hitting the head of the third on a rock. When Tina commits her murders, she pushes her first victim to their death, runs over her second, and pushes her third down a steep, craggy valley]]. |
14 | * FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: Tina looks harmless enough, but she turns out to be even more callous than Chris. |
15 | * ItsAllAboutMe: After running over and killing a man in a museum car park, Chris complains that "it's ruined the museum for me." |
16 | * KarmaHoudini: Chris and Tina are very happy at the end of the film, and they aren't in much danger of being caught by the police. Although, [[spoiler:Chris is dead.]] |
17 | * MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: Most of the murders are taken for accidents, at least at first. |
18 | * AMistakeIsBorn: Tina accidentally killed her mother Carol's dog in the film's backstory: |
19 | -->'''Tina:''' It was a mistake!\ |
20 | '''Carol:''' And so were you! |
21 | * MyBelovedSmother: In one scene we see Tina's mother Carol lying in a heap at the foot of the stairs, pressing her panic button pendant. When Tina doesn't pick up the call, Carol gets up. |
22 | %%* OutlawCouple |
23 | * SceneryGorn: The Cumbrian mountains look very bleak when it's raining. |
24 | * SceneryPorn: The Settle railway viaduct looks lovely in the sunshine. |
25 | * SexualKarma: {{Averted|Trope}}. Chris and Tina are not good people, but they still have good (or at least vigorous and enthusiastic) sex. |
26 | * SuicidePact: [[spoiler:Tina and Chris agree to go out on a high by jumping from the railway bridge. But one of them doesn't jump.]] |
27 | * SuspectIsHatless: After one of the murders, we hear on the car radio that the police are looking for "a ginger-faced man and an angry woman." |
28 | * TextileWorkIsFeminine: Tina knits. We find out that she has been knitting herself [[spoiler:a bra and crotchless knickers]]. |
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