Bye Bye Morons (French: Adieu les cons) is a 2020 French Black Comedy film directed by Albert Dupontel.
Suze Trappet (Virginie Efira) is very sick and expects to die soon. She seeks for her child, that she had to abandon when she was 15. JB Cuchas (Albert Dupontel) is a senior system administrator working for a big French administration, who attempts to commit suicide after finding out that his superiors plan to replace him with someone younger. His suicide attempt fails and he ends up fleeing police while helping Suze. Mister Blin (Nicolas Marié), a man who became blind due to police incompetence, also helps them.
This film provides examples of:
- Accidental Misnaming: Both suze and JB are often misnamed. This is probably supposed to show how society dehumanizes people.
- Age-Gap Romance: Suze and her first love had a notable age gap (to the point that JB thinks he's a pedophile)
- Blind Mistake: Jokes related to Mister Blin are either attributed to this or his fear of cops.
- Bungled Suicide: The plot point which brings JB and Suze together is a suicide attempt involving a riffle whose trigger is pulled by JB via a thread. However, the gun is pulled in another direction and shoots one of his colleagues.
- The Cameo: The Palmashow (a duo comprised of Grégoire Ludig and David Marsais) appears when Suze is looking for the Archives' office.
- Terry Gilliam also appears in an ad for the rifle JB intends to kill himself with.
- Career-Ending Injury: Mister Blin used to work for EDF (France' main electricity company) before receiving a flash-ball which visually impaired him and made him become an archivist (under the OETH law, a french law which requires companies to have disabled employees).
- Catchphrase: Blin repeatedly says "A handicapped doesn't go to Prison!" when he's about to deal with the Police.
- Cop Hater: Due to this visual impairment which was caused by a flashball shot by a cop, Mister Blin gets stressed out when he's in the presence of law enforcement.
- The movie as a whole as a constant criticism towards the police. See Police Are Useless.
- The Cracker: JB is the best informatician/security cracker of his company. When people say that they're impressed by his skills at hacking, he says he's "very good".
- Meaningful Name: Mister Blin is blind. That wouldn't work in French, but see Shout-Out for reasons why so many names are English.
- Mistaken for Terrorist: When Mister Blin was taking care of a Tesla coil which caused a power outage at a police station, he was mistaken for the troublemakers and got shot in the eyes via a flash-ball.
- Nerds Are Virgins: JB is strongly suggested to be very inexperienced with romance. Suze's son is similarly a very successful software engineer, but with a lonely life and a secret crush on a colleague.
- Orbital Shot: As the news of JB shooting one of his coworkers spreads like wildfire, we get various shots of people receiving phone calls about the event.
- Another kind of shot happens when Suze and Blin leave the Archives' office.
- Police Are Useless: Police brutality is omnipresent. Suze's autoimmune disease is compared to police brutality (quite an apt metaphor, says the physician). Blin lost his two eyes due to them (and fears them as a result). All the policemen in this film are extremely brutal, and they chase after JB for bad reasons.
- Shout-Out: This film makes explicit references to Brazil. The story and themes are quite similar, some characters are named after characters from Brazil (such as Lint or Tuttle) and Terry Gilliam makes a Cameo.
- Stalking is Love: Late in the film a male character stalks the woman he has a crush on. She eventually finds out and seems to be pleased.
- Suicide by Cop: The film ends as Suze points a gun at hostile cops while hugging JB.
- Talking to Themself: One scene shows Suze talking to a younger version of herself, around passerbys who only see her speaking at nothing.
