YMMV / Princess

• Alternate Character Interpretation:
  • Is August a righteous crusader fighting against the people who exploited his sister and continue to dishonour her memory? Or just a raging fundamentalist against people with a perfectly legal business? On the same lines, Charlie. August holds him responsible for Christina's death as well as everything that happened to Mia. Mia however has fond memories of him, nobody forced Christina into her job and the exact circumstances of her death are vague, making Charlie's part in it rather ambiguous. At the end of the movie we see him putting flowers on the graves of August, Mia and Christina.
  • Then again, there's the people working at the porn industry. Some have indeed molested Mia and probably got what they deserved . But for the rest: are they just normal people desperate to stop a crazed madman (even if they know his motive) when the police refuse to help them (and sick and tired of being judged for their line of work), or are they a bunch of assholes who refuse to take responsibility and want to stop someone from meddling in their business?
• Designated Hero: While August's goal is sympathetic, most of the things he does make it very difficult to root for him, such as beating up a man simply for going out with a prostitute, breaking a boy's arm, blowing up a porn industry which very likely had innocent workers that did nothing to deserve being sacrificed, and at the end, plants a bomb inside the mansion that Charlie is supposedly hanging out at, killing many innocent lives in the process, including Mia....
• Designated Villain: Charlie. His only crime is getting Christina involved in the porn industry, but other than that, he doesn't really do anything else making him worthy of being an antagonist. Ironically, August is much more of an antagonist compared to Charlie (see Designated Hero above).
• Retroactive Recognition: While August's voice actor Thure Lindhardt is already a recognizable actor in his home, he later stars as a leading role in an America indie movie Keep the Lights On.
• Too Bleak, Stopped Caring: While most of the people he is up against are despicable people with no morals, August himself is a religious nutjob who has no qualms about sacrificing innocents and hurting others for things that he thinks are wrong. Because of this, not only is hard to root for August, but it's also just as hard to care about how the story gets resolved, and the way it does get resolved is not nice...
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Sure, August tries his best to keep Mia safe from the ugly side of the world and also does his best to be a good father figure to her. However, any sympathy for him is killed off when he not only sacrifices innocent lives on his quest for revenge, but indirectly causes Mia's death as well, arguably making him almost worse than our main antagonist, Charlie.

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