History Film / APigeonSatOnABranchReflectingOnExistence

* CallBack: Charles XII, having apparently time traveled some 300 years, stops in a diner (on horseback) and demands a mineral water, while his army passes outside. Later in the film, as what's left of his bedraggled army passes by after being crushed at the Battle of Poltava again in 1709, the king again rides into the diner and asks to use the restroom.

* IntentionallyAwkwardTitle: You could say that OverlyLongTitle can come off as pompous - then it is [[TitleDrop dropped]] by a little girl in a poem she wrote.

* OverlyLongTitle: It was inspired by the famous Bruegel the elder painting.

* SeverelySpecializedStore

* TitleDrop: The title "A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence" is pronounced by a mentally handicapped girl from the stage [[ItMakesSenseInContext where she acts in an amateur show for her mates]]. When she is asked what the pigeon reflects about she answers: "that he does not have any money."
* TheWoobie: Jonathan.

It is a freewheeling film mostly revolving around the misadventures of two roaming salesmen, Sam and Jonothan. However it is not limited to them.

* ArcWords: "I'm happy to hear you're doing fine."

* ButtMonkey: Sam for Jonothan

* TheComicallySerious: The stone-faced, almost robotic manner in which Sam and Jonothan sell novelty items like vampire teeth and rubber masks is quite odd.

* LeaveTheCameraRunning: As usual with Andersson, an omnipresent trope here. Each scene finishes five seconds after it is supposed to be finished. The camera lingers on numerous occasions.

* RandomEventsPlot: The closest thing to a story this has (Sam and Jonothan trying to sell joke articles) [[NoEnding doesn't really go anywhere]], and there are plenty of scenes that can best be described as individual sketches.

* SoUnfunnyItsFunny: Sam and Jonothan sell joke articles. People do not find them funny at all, which always leads to a hilariously awkward silence.

* TheWoobie: Jonothan.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The entrance of UsefulNotes/CarolusRex himself in the bar.

* AuthorFilibuster: A scene near the end where the black people are burnt by the European colonialists is somewhat {{anvilicious}}.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The entrance of Emperor Karl XII in the bar.

* TitleDrop: The title "A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence" is pronounced by a mentally handicapped girl from the stage [[ItMakesSenseInContext where she acts in an amateur show for her mates]]. When she is asked what the pigeon reflects about she answers: "that he does not have any money."

* AuthorFilibuster: A scene near the end where the black people are burnt by the Euuropean colonialists is somewhat {{anvilicious}}.

* LeaveTheCameraRunning: An omnipresent trope here. Each scene finishes five seconds after it is supposed to be finished. The camera lingers on numerous occasions.

A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (Original title: En duva satt på en gren och funderade på tillvaron) is a 2014 film by the Swedish maitre Creator/RoyAndersson which won him UsefulNotes/LeoneDOro on the Venice film festival of the same year.

* ArcWords: '''I'm happy to hear you're doing fine'''
* AuthorFilibuster: A scene near the end where the black people are burnt by the Euuropean colonialists is somewhat anvilicious.

* InspiredBy: Film/TheBicycleThief of all things.

* TitleDrop: The title ''A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence'' is pronounced by a mentally handicapped girl from the stage [[ItMakesSenseInContext where she acts in an amateur show for her mates]]. When she is asked what the pigeon reflects about she answers: "that he does not have any money."

* TitleDrop: The title ''A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence'' is pronounced by a mentally handicapped girl from the scene [[ItMakesSenseInContext where she acts in an amateur show for her mates]]. When she is asked what the pigeon reflects about she answers: "that he does not have any money."

* BlackComedy: The dryest kind possible.

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* InspiredBy: Film/TheBicycleThieves of all things.

A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (Original title: En duva satt på en gren och funderade på tillvaron) is a 2014 film by the Swedish maitre Creator/RoyAndersson which won him LeoneDOro on the Venice film festival of the same year.

A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (Original title: En duva satt på en gren och funderade på tillvaron) is a 2014 film by the Swedish maitre Creator/RoyAndersson which won him LeoneDOr on the Venice film festival of the same year.