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1* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Is Grace really as kind and forgiving as presented? She's still a MafiaPrincess after all, and it doesn't take much convincing for her to massacre everyone in Dogville.
2* CatharsisFactor: [[spoiler: It's quite satisfying to see the townsfolk being slaughtered by the gangsters considering the horrible abuse and exploitation they put Grace through.]]
3* DracoInLeatherPants: Grace. Just look at this page for examples. People just ignore that she's a MafiaPrincess who will eventually probably engage in her own acts of evil and had a ''baby'' murdered.
4* EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory: The conversation in the limo at the end of the movie could easily be portrayed as symbolically taking place between the Father and the Son just after the crucifixion. Except that [[spoiler: the Father convinces the Son (Grace) that all those wretched sinners aren't worth saving and shouldn't be forgiven.]]
5* MoralEventHorizon: [[spoiler:Everyone gets their individual moment apart from collectively enslaving and chaining Grace. And we mean EVERYONE. The short list: Chuck was the first one to cross the line by raping Grace. Vera's response to his crime is to start assaulting Grace out of jealousy. Ben breaks their deal and rapes her before returning her to the town. Tom Edison, who tries to pass himself as above it all after ignoring Grace's abuse, lets her take the fall for the theft that he committed which goes even further when he is the one to betray her to the gangsters who he thought would hurt her for calling him out on his hypocrisy. Grace arguably crossed it at the end when during the massacre of the entire village -- she didn't exclude the baby from the massacre]].
6%% * TheWoobie: Grace

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