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* {{Foreshadowing}}: When Pascal is showing Moll how to hunt, she says she can't bring herself to kill a rabbit, only for Pascal to encourage she ''can'' do it. [[spoiler:Moll later finds it in herself to kill Pascal upon realizing he's a serial murderer]].
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: When Pascal is showing Moll how to hunt, she says she can't bring herself to kill a rabbit, only for Pascal to encourage her that she ''can'' do it. [[spoiler:Moll later finds it in herself to kill Pascal upon realizing he's a serial murderer]].
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* LackOfEmpathy: Detective Kelly claims this about Pascal when he's a suspect for the serial murders, telling Moll that he doesn't truly love her and is in fact incapable of love. [[spoiler: Pascal ''is'' revealed to be the killer and doesn't seem to feel any remorse for it, even claiming his victims were "nothing", but it's [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation a bit more complicated]] as to whether or not he truly felt nothing for Moll]].
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* LackOfEmpathy: Detective Kelly claims this about Pascal when he's a suspect for the serial murders, telling Moll that he doesn't truly love her and is in fact incapable of love. [[spoiler: Pascal ''is'' revealed to be the killer and doesn't seem to feel any remorse for it, even claiming his victims were "nothing", but it's [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation [[AmbiguousSituation a bit more complicated]] as to whether or not he truly felt nothing for Moll]].
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* BlackSheep: Moll is this in her family, due to the incident that led her being expelled from school. Her sister Polly outright calls Moll "a wild one" early in the film.
* BlatantLies: When Pascal comes to see Moll, Hilary answers the door and says she's not in...only for Moll to immediately appear behind her.
* BlatantLies: When Pascal comes to see Moll, Hilary answers the door and says she's not in...only for Moll to immediately appear behind her.
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* BlackSheep: Moll is this in her family, due to the incident that led her being expelled from school. Her sister Polly outright calls Moll "a wild one" early in the film. \n It's obvious Moll feels she doesn't fit in with her family and their upper-class lifestyle, becoming increasingly rebellious and defiant towards them as the film progresses.
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** Moll tells the police that the night she met Pascal, they went to a club and danced together until dawn. She actually danced with a different man at the club and met Pascal early the next morning. She continues to state this even after Detective Kelly produces a video that suggests Moll didn't meet him there.
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** When Pascal comes to see Moll, Hilary answers the door and says she's not in...only for Moll to immediately appear behind her.
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* GoodTimesMontage: After Moll moves in with Pascal, there's a montage of them being happy together, including drinking and dancing at a local club, Pascal showing Moll how to live in the countryside, and the couple making out or having sex in various places. [[spoiler:And then the police come to arrest Pascal]].
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* ParentalFavoritism: Hilary clearly favors Polly over [[TheUnfavorite Moll]], as Polly was a well-behaved girl who is now married to a successful man and expecting children, and generally fits into the family a lot better than Moll, who is often at odds with how Hilary wants her to live her life and brought a scandal upon them s a teen by getting expelled for violent behavior. Interestingly, Hilary tends to pay more attention to Moll, though it's because she feels the need to closely monitor Moll's every move so she won't screw up again and constantly criticize her, while Hilary usually has nothing but praise for Polly.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: When Pascal is showing Moll how to hunt, she says she can't bring herself to kill a rabbit, only for Pascal to encourage she ''can'' do it. [[spoiler:Moll later finds it in herself to kill Pascal upon realizing he's a serial murderer]].
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* GetOut: Hilary tells Moll this after the TakeThat mentioned below.
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* GetOut: Hilary tells Moll this after the TakeThat mentioned below. Moll indeed leaves [[spoiler:and doesn't come back]].
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* OneWordTitle: The film's title is simply ''Beast''. It fits with the "adult fairytale" theme of the movie and it's a bit ambiguous as to who or what exactly it's referring to.
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* OneWordTitle: The film's title is simply ''Beast''. It fits with the "adult fairytale" theme of the movie and it's a bit ambiguous as to who or what exactly it's referring to. to, though it's implied to be the 'beast' that lurks in all of us, and especially the repressed Moll.
* QuestionableConsent: Clifford tells Moll that Pascal has a criminal conviction from his teens for sexual assault. She questions him about it and Pascal says the sex was consensual, but because the girl's parents disliked him, they reported him for assault. Moll accepts this explanation, though it's never made clear what really happened [[spoiler:especially given the revelation Pascal is a serial rapist]]. It's also mentioned the girl was only fourteen while Pascal was slightly older; the age of consent in Jersey is sixteen, so even if the girl consented Pascal would still be guilty of statutory rape (plus there may have been some level of coercion involved).
* QuestionableConsent: Clifford tells Moll that Pascal has a criminal conviction from his teens for sexual assault. She questions him about it and Pascal says the sex was consensual, but because the girl's parents disliked him, they reported him for assault. Moll accepts this explanation, though it's never made clear what really happened [[spoiler:especially given the revelation Pascal is a serial rapist]]. It's also mentioned the girl was only fourteen while Pascal was slightly older; the age of consent in Jersey is sixteen, so even if the girl consented Pascal would still be guilty of statutory rape (plus there may have been some level of coercion involved).
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* ExtremeDoormat: Moll starts out as one to her family, but quickly starts to rebel after she meets Pascal.
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* ExtremeDoormat: Moll starts out as one to her family, meekly doing whatever they ask of her, never standing up to them and dissolving into tears when her mother tells her off for going out alone without telling anyone (for reference, she's twenty-seven) but she quickly starts to rebel after she meets Pascal.
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* MyBelovedSmother: Hilary. Dear ''god'' Hilary.
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* MyBelovedSmother: Hilary. Dear ''god'' Hilary. She closely monitors Moll at all times and controlls almost all aspects of her life, including her job, her hobbies, her friends and her birthday party. She gets angry and berates and guilt-trips Moll if she does anything to assert her independence. Hilary even quit her job to homeschool Moll full time and keep an eye on her when she was a teenager; while Hilary's controlling behavior was more understandable when Moll was younger and had just been kicked out of school for stabbing a student, it looks a lot less reasonable in the present day, where Moll is a grown woman who hasn't acted out in years.
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* RejectedApology: Late in the film, Moll approaches and tries to apologise to her high school bully for stabbing her. Though shocked, the woman seems willing to accept it, saying it happened over a decade ago...until Moll says she was only "[[NeverMyFault defending [herself]]]". The woman doesn't take this well, becoming distraught and furiously ordering Moll to leave.
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* RejectedApology: Late in the film, Moll approaches and tries to apologise to her high school bully for stabbing her. Though shocked, the woman seems willing to accept it, saying it happened over a decade ago...until Moll says she was only "[[NeverMyFault defending [herself]]]".[[NeverMyFault "defending [herself]"]]. The woman doesn't take this well, becoming distraught and furiously ordering Moll to leave.
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* EvilRedhead: Played with by Moll. She stabbed a childhood bully ''extremely hard'' in the face, and not in self-defence, despite her attempts to claim otherwise. She also seems to fantasize about [[spoiler:being the killer]], but as soon as [[spoiler:she finds out that Pascal is a serial killer, she does the right thing and drives him off the road, killing him.]]
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* EvilRedhead: Played with by Moll. She stabbed a childhood bully ''extremely hard'' in the face, and [[spoiler:and not in self-defence, despite her attempts to claim otherwise. otherwise]]. She also seems to fantasize about [[spoiler:being being the killer]], killer, but as soon as [[spoiler:she finds out that Pascal is a serial killer, she does the right thing and drives him off the road, killing him.]]
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* CrimeOfSelfDefence: Moll states she was the one who got into trouble at school when she stabbed a bully in self-defence. [[spoiler:She eventually admits it was [[SubvertedTrope actually because]] she did it for revenge; while the girl may have provoked her, Moll wasn't defending herself]].
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* CrimeOfSelfDefence: CrimeOfSelfDefense: Moll states she was the one who got into trouble at school when she stabbed a bully in self-defence.self-defense. [[spoiler:She eventually admits it was [[SubvertedTrope actually because]] she did it for revenge; while the girl may have provoked her, Moll wasn't defending herself]].
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: Clifford for Moll. She eventually makes it very clear that she doesn't reciprocate and finds him repulsive.
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: Clifford for Moll. Moll; he's not remotely subtle about him finding her attractive, constantly inserts himself into her personal space and states he will take care of her in a patronising manner, with an unenthusiastic Moll politely trying to get him to back off. She eventually makes it [[BrutalHonesty very clear clear]] that she doesn't reciprocate and finds him repulsive.
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* TorchesAndPitchforks: Later in the film, Moll is attacked in her house by a group of men (wielding bats and crowbars rather than torches and pitchforks), who seemingly want revenge on her for standing by Pascal, the chief suspect in the murder case. [[spoiler: It's revealed to be [[AllJustADream a nightmare]], though a [[AdultFear realistic one]], as the townsfolk genuinely are antagonistic towards Moll for her relationship with Pascal]].
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* TorchesAndPitchforks: Later in the film, Moll is attacked in her house by a group of men (wielding bats and crowbars rather than torches and pitchforks), who seemingly want revenge on her for standing by Pascal, the chief suspect in the murder case. [[spoiler: It's revealed to be [[AllJustADream a nightmare]], though a [[AdultFear realistic one]], one, as the townsfolk genuinely are antagonistic towards Moll for her relationship with Pascal]].
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'''''Beast''''' (known as ''Jersey Affair'' in some countries) is a 2017 British psychological thriller / romantic drama film. Set on the island of Jersey in the Channel Islands, it tells the story of Moll, a young woman stuck living a monotonous life with her painfully overbearing family. This changes when she meets and falls for Pascal, a mysterious and handsome outsider who offers her a different life. However, their romance takes an increasingly dark turn when Pascal is accused of committing a series of murders.
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* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: While being questioned by Detective Kelly, Moll brings up that she was bullied in school, to which Kelly replies "So was I. So were a lot of people. But you tried to kill a girl." Moll insists she was defending herself, but Kelly wonders if she continues to defend Pascal because she's got a violent streak herself.
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* ALighterShadeOfBlack: [[spoiler:Moll is seriously unstable, and it's revealed that she lied in claiming she stabbed the girl in self-defence, which makes it ambiguous how much of a bully she was, and she fantasizes about killing the victims. However, she still gets revenge on Pascal and ensures he can't hurt anybody else by killing him after he confesses to being the killer.]]
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* ALighterShadeOfBlack: [[spoiler:Moll is seriously unstable, and it's revealed that she lied in claiming she stabbed the girl her school bully in self-defence, which makes it ambiguous how much of a bully she was, and she fantasizes about killing the victims. However, she still gets revenge on Pascal and ensures he can't hurt anybody else by killing him after he confesses to being the killer.]]
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* EvilRedhead: Played with by Moll. She stabbed a childhood bully ''extremely hard'' in the eye, and not in self-defence, despite her attempts to claim otherwise. She also seems to fantasize about [[spoiler:being the killer]], but as soon as [[spoiler:she finds out that Pascal is a serial killer, she does the right thing and drives him off the road, killing him.]]
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* EvilRedhead: Played with by Moll. She stabbed a childhood bully ''extremely hard'' in the eye, face, and not in self-defence, despite her attempts to claim otherwise. She also seems to fantasize about [[spoiler:being the killer]], but as soon as [[spoiler:she finds out that Pascal is a serial killer, she does the right thing and drives him off the road, killing him.]]
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** Pascal's parents are both dead, he's been arrested multiple times for poaching and did time as a teenager for [[spoiler: assaulting a thirteen year old girl, although he claims the sex was consensual and the girl's parents blew it out of proportion out of hatred for him]].
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** Pascal's parents are both dead, he's been arrested multiple times for poaching and did time as a teenager for [[spoiler: assaulting a thirteen fourteen year old girl, although he claims the sex was consensual and the girl's parents blew it out of proportion out of hatred for him]].
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* CinderellaCircumstances: Moll to an extent. She's forced to act as a caretaker for her father, who has dementia, and as a babysitter to her younger cousin in a beautiful country home. Her mother is extremely strict and controlling and is irritated with her for sneaking out to go dancing, where she meets a handsome stranger who offers her a life of passion and freedom.
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* CinderellaCircumstances: Moll CinderellaPlot: Moll's life, to an extent. She's forced to act as a caretaker for her father, who has dementia, and as a babysitter to her younger cousin in a beautiful country home. Her mother is extremely strict and controlling and is irritated with her for sneaking out to go dancing, where she meets a handsome stranger who offers her a life of passion and freedom.
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[{{Tagline}} Be careful what you unleash]]]]
[[caption-width-right:350:[[{{Tagline}} Be careful what you unleash]]]]
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* BadDreams: At two points in the film, Moll gets nightmares where she is attacked by unseen assailants. These also double as {{foreshadowing}} as in both the dreams, Moll ultimately finds herself [[spoiler: not as the victim, but as the ''attacker'', hinting that she is not all that she appears]].
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* WomanInWhite: At the end of the film, Moll puts on a white dress before going on a date with Pascal, where she makes the decision to [[spoiler: kill him after realising he's the murderer]].
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* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Moll had no friends in school and was bullied. Later in the film, [[spoiler: after Pascal is arrested for the murders and Moll stands by him]], she is ostracised by almost the whole town.
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** Moll had no friends in school and was bullied. Later in the film, [[spoiler: after Pascal is arrested for the murders and Moll stands by him]], she is ostracised by almost the whole town.
** Pascal is also an outsider even prior to being accused of murder.
** Moll had no friends in school and was bullied. Later in the film, [[spoiler: after Pascal is arrested for the murders and Moll stands by him]], she is ostracised by almost the whole town.
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* ALighterShadeOfBlack: [[spoiler:Moll is seriously unstable, and it's revealed that she lied in claiming she stabbed the girl in self-defence, which makes it ambiguous how much of a bully she was, and she fantasizes about killing the victims. However, she still gets revenge on Pascal and ensures he can't hurt anybody else by killing him after he confesses to being the killer.]]
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* AutoErotica: At one point, Moll and Pascal have sex in his truck.
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* AutoErotica: At one point, Moll and Pascal have sex in his truck. It gets a CerebusCallBack when she and Pascal are driving down the road at the end of the film, and, having learned that, [[spoiler:he's the killer, Moll grabs the steering wheel and drives them off the road, killing him.]]
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* CinderellaCircumstances: Moll to an extent. She's forced to act as a caretaker for her father, who has dementia, and as a babysitter to her younger cousin. Her mother is extremely strict and controlling and is irritated with her for sneaking out to go dancing, where she meets a handsome stranger who offers her a life of passion and freedom.
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* CinderellaCircumstances: Moll to an extent. She's forced to act as a caretaker for her father, who has dementia, and as a babysitter to her younger cousin.cousin in a beautiful country home. Her mother is extremely strict and controlling and is irritated with her for sneaking out to go dancing, where she meets a handsome stranger who offers her a life of passion and freedom.
* EvilRedhead: Played with by Moll. She stabbed a childhood bully ''extremely hard'' in the eye, and not in self-defence, despite her attempts to claim otherwise. She also seems to fantasize about [[spoiler:being the killer]], but as soon as [[spoiler:she finds out that Pascal is a serial killer, she does the right thing and drives him off the road, killing him.]]
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* FieryRedhead: Moll, although she's initially quite restrained. When she starts openly rebelling against her family though...
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* WhamLine: From Pascal near the end of the film. [[spoiler: "It's over. The [[SerialKiller others]]...they were nothing"]].
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* WhamLine: From Pascal near the end of the film. [[spoiler: "It's over. The [[SerialKiller others]]...they were nothing"]].nothing to me"]].
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''Beast'' was written and directed by Michael Pearce and stars Jessie Buckley, Johnny Flynn and Geraldine James.
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''Beast'' was written and directed by Michael Pearce and stars Jessie Buckley, Creator/JessieBuckley, Johnny Flynn and Geraldine James.
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: Clifford for Moll. She eventually makes it very clear that she doesn't reciprocate and finds him repulsive.
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* SmellsSexy: Moll brings up Pascal's smell a few times and clearly finds it attractive. When Polly asks what she likes about him, she half-jokingly brings up his smell. The first time they have sex, she also noticeably inhales as she steps close to him. When Clifford makes a pass at her, she tells him the one thing she always disliked most about him was his "smell".
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* FloatingHeadSyndrome: The theatrical release poster features Pascal's translucent face lingering in the sky behind Moll. [[spoiler: Given TheReveal at the end, it also technically counts as EvilOverlooker]].
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* LackOfEmpathy: Detective Kelly claims this about Pascal when he's a suspect for the serial murders, telling Moll that he doesn't truly love her and is in fact incapable of love. [[spoiler: Pascal ''is'' revealed to be the killer and doesn't seem to feel any remorse for it, even claiming his victims were "nothing", but it's [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation a bit more complicated]] as to whether or not he truly felt nothing for Moll]].
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* RejectedApology: Late in the film, Moll approaches and tries to apologise to her high school bully for stabbing her. Though shocked, the woman seems willing to accept it, saying it happened over a decade ago...until Moll says she was only "[[NeverMyFault defending [herself]]]". The woman doesn't take this well, becoming distraught and furiously ordering Moll to leave.
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* ShamedByAMob: When Moll quietly attends the funeral service of the latest murder victim, some of the other attendees are clearly not happy to see her there due to her boyfriend being the prime suspect. One man even orders her leave and tells her to "fuck off". After she hugs the victim's grieving mother and tells her she's sorry, Moll is all but chased out by some of the men; they follow her to her car and look ready to attack her until she loudly screams at them to get them to back off.
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* TorchesAndPitchforks: Later in the film, Moll is attacked in her house by a group of men (wielding bats and crowbars rather than torches and pitchforks), who seemingly want revenge on her for standing by Pascal, the chief suspect in the murder case. [[spoiler: It's revealed to be [[AllJustADream a nightmare]], though a [[AdultFear realistic one]], as the townsfolk genuinely are antagonistic towards Moll for her relationship with Pascal]].
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Later, Moll tries to encourage Pascal to leave the island and start a new life somewhere else, though he's reluctant. [[spoiler: He is finally persuaded to go, as he wants Moll to be happy...but then he confesses he really was the killer at her urging]].
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'''''Beast''''' (known as ''Jersey Affair'' in some countries) is a 2017 British psychological thriller / romantic drama film. Set on the island of Jersey in the Channel Islands, it tells the story of Moll, a young woman stuck living a monotonous life with her painfully overbearing family. This changes when she meets and falls for Pascal, a mysterious and handsome outsider who offers her a different life. However, their romance takes an increasingly dark turn when Pascal is accused of committing a series of murders.
''Beast'' was written and directed by Michael Pearce and stars Jessie Buckley, Johnny Flynn and Geraldine James.
Not to be confused with the young adult novel and film ''Literature/{{Beastly}}'', ''Film/BeautyAndTheBeast2017'' or the novel ''Literature/{{Beast}}'' and its film adaptation ''Film/TheBeast''.
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!!''Beast'' contains examples of:
* AbusiveParents: Moll's mother Hilary is emotionally abusive and extremely controlling towards her.
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Moll is strongly attracted to rebellious poacher Pascal and stays with him even when she learns about his criminal record and violent streak. As it turns out, she herself isn't exactly a saint. [[spoiler: She's not so keen after finding out he's a murderer though]].
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Moll had no friends in school and was bullied. Later in the film, [[spoiler: after Pascal is arrested for the murders and Moll stands by him]], she is ostracised by almost the whole town.
* AmbiguousEnding: Possibly overlapping with DownerEnding. [[spoiler: Moll finds out Pascal really is the killer and so causes a car accident in attempt to kill him. She strangles him to death to finish him off. The final scene shows a bloodied Moll standing up on the deserted road, [[ThousandYardStare staring]] into space. SmashToBlack]].
* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Pascal makes one to Moll when she asks up straight if he's the killer, exclaiming how she could ask him that when he loves her. She immediately focuses on this and confesses that she loves him too.
* AntiHero: Moll. She is a flawed and troubled woman who does some rather morally questionable things throughout the film, but she does try to be a good person and is generally presented sympathetically.
* ArcWords: Moll tends to reiterate that she's "a good person", which Pascal also says to her.
* AssholeVictim:
** [[spoiler: Pascal. He is killed by Moll after she finds out he's a serial rapist and killer, and has been lying to her about it ever since they met]].
** [[PlayingWithATrope Possibly]] the girl who Moll stabbed in high school. She had bullied her so relentlessly Moll stabbed her in self-defence. [[spoiler: Moll later admits that she actually just did it for revenge and the now adult girl is still shown to be very distraught by the incident, potentially subverting this]].
* AutoErotica: At one point, Moll and Pascal have sex in his truck.
* BadDreams: At two points in the film, Moll gets nightmares where she is attacked by unseen assailants. These also double as {{foreshadowing}} as in both the dreams, Moll ultimately finds herself [[spoiler: not as the victim, but as the ''attacker'', hinting that she is not all that she appears]].
* BelievingTheirOwnLies: [[spoiler: Moll repeatedly insists she stabbed her high school bully in self-defence and that it wasn't her fault, but later admits to Pascal and herself that she actually did it out of vengeance against the girl for tormenting her]].
* BirdsOfAFeather: Moll and Pascal. She even states at one point that "We're the same". [[spoiler: He says the same thing when he's trying to convince her not to kill him after she finds out he's a murderer. Unfortunately for him, [[ExactWords he is right about them having that in common]]]].
* BlackSheep: Moll is this in her family, due to the incident that led her being expelled from school. Her sister Polly outright calls Moll "a wild one" early in the film.
* BlatantLies: When Pascal comes to see Moll, Hilary answers the door and says she's not in...only for Moll to immediately appear behind her.
* BookEnds: At both the start of the film and close to the end, Moll is seen getting dressed in front of a mirror. She spots a long hair growing from her neck; at the start she yanks it off while at the end she leaves it alone.
* CinderellaCircumstances: Moll to an extent. She's forced to act as a caretaker for her father, who has dementia, and as a babysitter to her younger cousin. Her mother is extremely strict and controlling and is irritated with her for sneaking out to go dancing, where she meets a handsome stranger who offers her a life of passion and freedom.
* DarkAndTroubledPast:
** Moll's family are very overbearing and controlling, especially her mother. She was bullied at school, to the point where she stabbed a bully with a pair of scissors in self-defence [[spoiler: though as it later turns out, it was actually out of revenge]] and got expelled.
** Pascal's parents are both dead, he's been arrested multiple times for poaching and did time as a teenager for [[spoiler: assaulting a thirteen year old girl, although he claims the sex was consensual and the girl's parents blew it out of proportion out of hatred for him]].
* DatingWhatDaddyHates: It's clear part of the reason Moll likes being with Pascal is because of how much her family, especially her mother, don't approve of him.
* DestructiveRomance: Particularly in the second half of the film, Moll and Pascal's relationship becomes this. At one point, they get into a nasty, alcohol-fuelled fight, during which [[spoiler: Pascal actually [[DomesticAbuse chokes]] Moll in a rage]]. It ultimately culminates in [[spoiler: her strangling him to death after learning he's a murderer]].
* DidNotGetTheGuy: [[spoiler: In the end, Moll doesn't get the guy because of her ''own'' actions; she murders Pascal after he admits to being the serial killer]].
* DrowningMySorrows: Twice in the film, first on [[ABirthdayNotABreak her birthday]] and then later [[TraumaCongaLine near the end]], Moll gets completely wasted as a coping mechanism for emotional distress.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The opening scene of Moll's birthday party is this for a number of characters; Moll's sister Polly uses her congratulatory speech to Moll to [[ItsAllAboutMe publicly announce she's pregnant with twins]], her mother [[MyBelovedSmother Hilary]] orders Moll about and [[ParentalFavoritism seems unperturbed]] by Polly's actions, even calling it a cause for celebration, and Moll is seen [[StepfordSmiler practicing smiling]] in front of her bedroom mirror prior to the party.
* ExtremeDoormat: Moll starts out as one to her family, but quickly starts to rebel after she meets Pascal.
* FairytaleMotifs: Director and writer Michael Pearce described the film as being a bit of a deconstructed fairytale; Moll comes across as a typical fairytale heroine trapped in an oppressive life, who is offered freedom by a handsome stranger who lives in the woods. It's also been described as a "warped adult fairytale".
* FieryRedhead: Moll, although she's initially quite restrained. When she starts openly rebelling against her family though...
* GetOut: Hilary tells Moll this after the TakeThat mentioned below.
* HeelRealization: [[spoiler: Moll has one towards the end of the film; although she herself is more of an AntiHero than a villain, she comes to realise she is wrong for continuing to defend Pascal despite evidence he's a murderer]].
* HopeSpot: Two prominent ones.
** Round about the middle of the film, Moll [[spoiler: ditches her overbearing family and moves in with Pascal, finally feeling free and happy for the first time in her life. Then Pascal gets arrested for the murders...]]
** In the third act [[spoiler: Pascal is cleared of the murders when another man's DNA is found on the body of the latest victim; he's subsequently freed, reunited with Moll and they make plans to start a new life. But then she starts getting paranoid he was the killer after all]].
* InspiredBy: The film's story was partly inspired by the real-life case of Edward Paisnel, the "Beast of Jersey", a violent sex offender who terrorised the island of Jersey in the 1960's and early 1970's.
* {{Jerkass}}: Just about Moll's entire family qualifies. They all tend to be very self-centred and image-obsessed, and treat her like a servant even on her birthday.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Clifford may be a sleazy jerk to Moll, but he's right about [[spoiler: Pascal being bad news and Moll herself lacking the moral high ground for lying to the cops about Pascal]].
* LoveMakesYouEvil: [[spoiler: Moll lies to the police to protect Pascal when he's arrested for murder, out of love for him. She justifies it to herself that she 'knows' he's innocent, but it eventually becomes clear this [[BelievingTheirOwnLies isn't true]], at which point the guilt starts to eat away at her]].
* LoveMartyr: Moll becomes one to Pascal in the second half. She stands by him and even lies for him after [[spoiler: he's arrested for the murders]]. She also stays with him and insists she still loves him even after [[spoiler: he chokes her during a fight]]. [[spoiler: It's subverted in the end, as she kills him after he confesses to being a rapist and murderer]].
* MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: The first time Moll and Pascal have sex, it's in the middle of the woods.
* MisunderstoodLonerWithAHeartOfGold: Pascal comes across as this and Moll seems convinced he's this. [[spoiler: He's not]].
* MyBelovedSmother: Hilary. Dear ''god'' Hilary.
* OlderThanTheyLook: You'd be forgiven for thinking that Moll is in her late teens or early twenties, based on her general appearance, behaviour and the way her family treats her. She's actually just turned ''twenty-seven''.
* OneWordTitle: The film's title is simply ''Beast''. It fits with the "adult fairytale" theme of the movie and it's a bit ambiguous as to who or what exactly it's referring to.
* RebelliousSpirit: Moll fits this perfectly, with a large part of the film involving her escalating efforts to break free of her controlling, oppressive family, ranging from digging her dirty nails into the family's white couch, to destroying a country club's manicured lawn with a golf club.
* RescueRomance: Moll and Pascal first meet when he saves her from a man who was trying to kiss her against her will. They're instantly attracted to each other and begin a relationship shortly afterward.
* TheReveal:
** [[spoiler: Moll actually attacked the classmate who bullied her out of revenge, not self-defence, and even says she may have been trying to kill her]].
** The serial killer [[spoiler: really was Pascal all along]].
* {{Revenge}}: Detective Kelly suggests to Moll that the real reason she continues to defend Pascal [[spoiler: after he's arrested for murder and they find evidence she lied in her initial testimony]] is not because she genuinely believes he's innocent, but because she wants revenge against the community which have always ostracised her and made her feel unwanted. [[spoiler: Moll eventually admits to Pascal that she stabbed her school bully not in self-defense, but out of vengeance]].
* SceneryPorn: The film's dark subject matter is set against the beautiful landscapes of Jersey.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere:
** Moll isn't really enjoying her twenty-seventh birthday party, which [[MyBelovedSmother Hilary]] organised, but after her sister upstages it to announce her pregnancy, she has enough and sneaks off to go clubbing until the early hours.
** In the middle of the film, Moll [[spoiler: moves out of her family's house and goes to live with Pascal]].
Later, Moll tries to encourage Pascal to leave the island and start a new life somewhere else, though he's reluctant. [[spoiler: He is finally persuaded to go, as he wants Moll to be happy...but then he confesses he really was the killer at her urging]].
* SelfHarm: Early in the film, a stressed Moll deliberately squeezes her hand around a glass shard, causing a nasty cut. Later, while being berated by her mother, it's revealed she was digging her fingers into the cut, causing it start bleeding again. She later also spends a night lying in the grave of one of the murder victims without a coat or blanket, and even shoves dirt in her mouth.
* SerialKiller: One has been operating in Moll's community for a number of years, [[SerialRapist raping]] and killing young women. Pascal is suspected of being the killer, forming one of the main plots of the film. In the end, it's revealed [[spoiler: he really was the killer all along]].
* SignificantWardrobeShift: Moll starts out wearing sundresses in pale colours like yellow. As she becomes increasingly close to Pascal and begins rebelling against her family, she starts wearing the colour blue a lot more and also dresses in more casual clothes like sweaters and oversized T-shirts.
* StressVomit: After [[spoiler: Pascal's arrest for murder and being shown photos of the murder victims]], Moll starts feeling nauseous during her tour guide job and has to get off the bus to vomit on the side of the road.
* SurpriseCarCrash: A variation involving just one car. [[spoiler: At the end of the film, Moll and Pascal are idyllically driving along a back road in the woods. Moll asks Pascal to kiss her. As he does, she suddenly unclips his seatbelt and yanks on the steering wheel, causing the car to crash and flip over]].
* TakeThat: After Pascal is asked to leave a golf club for a dress code violation (he's wearing black jeans rather than dress pants) and Moll's family don't intervene, she announces she wants to make a toast and loudly states "To my family. For everything you've done for me. I forgive you."
* ToughLove: After Moll was expelled from school for stabbing another girl, she mentions her mother quit her job to homeschool her and tried to "beat the bad out of her". [[DeconstructedTrope Unfortunately]], Hilary's approach to parenting borders on or outright crosses into emotional abuse and in the end, only serves to make Moll want to rebel more.
* WhamLine: From Pascal near the end of the film. [[spoiler: "It's over. The [[SerialKiller others]]...they were nothing"]].
* WhatTheHellHero: Moll gets a lot of this for continuing to stand by Pascal even when he becomes a murder suspect, especially from Clifford when she [[spoiler: confesses that she lied to the police about Pascal's whereabouts the night they met]].
* WomanInWhite: At the end of the film, Moll puts on a white dress before going on a date with Pascal, where she makes the decision to [[spoiler: kill him after realising he's the murderer]].
* WouldHitAGirl: The serial killer specifically targets young women. At one point during an argument, [[spoiler: Pascal]] slams [[spoiler: Moll]] against a wall and chokes her.
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''Beast'' was written and directed by Michael Pearce and stars Jessie Buckley, Johnny Flynn and Geraldine James.
Not to be confused with the young adult novel and film ''Literature/{{Beastly}}'', ''Film/BeautyAndTheBeast2017'' or the novel ''Literature/{{Beast}}'' and its film adaptation ''Film/TheBeast''.
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!!''Beast'' contains examples of:
* AbusiveParents: Moll's mother Hilary is emotionally abusive and extremely controlling towards her.
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Moll is strongly attracted to rebellious poacher Pascal and stays with him even when she learns about his criminal record and violent streak. As it turns out, she herself isn't exactly a saint. [[spoiler: She's not so keen after finding out he's a murderer though]].
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Moll had no friends in school and was bullied. Later in the film, [[spoiler: after Pascal is arrested for the murders and Moll stands by him]], she is ostracised by almost the whole town.
* AmbiguousEnding: Possibly overlapping with DownerEnding. [[spoiler: Moll finds out Pascal really is the killer and so causes a car accident in attempt to kill him. She strangles him to death to finish him off. The final scene shows a bloodied Moll standing up on the deserted road, [[ThousandYardStare staring]] into space. SmashToBlack]].
* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Pascal makes one to Moll when she asks up straight if he's the killer, exclaiming how she could ask him that when he loves her. She immediately focuses on this and confesses that she loves him too.
* AntiHero: Moll. She is a flawed and troubled woman who does some rather morally questionable things throughout the film, but she does try to be a good person and is generally presented sympathetically.
* ArcWords: Moll tends to reiterate that she's "a good person", which Pascal also says to her.
* AssholeVictim:
** [[spoiler: Pascal. He is killed by Moll after she finds out he's a serial rapist and killer, and has been lying to her about it ever since they met]].
** [[PlayingWithATrope Possibly]] the girl who Moll stabbed in high school. She had bullied her so relentlessly Moll stabbed her in self-defence. [[spoiler: Moll later admits that she actually just did it for revenge and the now adult girl is still shown to be very distraught by the incident, potentially subverting this]].
* AutoErotica: At one point, Moll and Pascal have sex in his truck.
* BadDreams: At two points in the film, Moll gets nightmares where she is attacked by unseen assailants. These also double as {{foreshadowing}} as in both the dreams, Moll ultimately finds herself [[spoiler: not as the victim, but as the ''attacker'', hinting that she is not all that she appears]].
* BelievingTheirOwnLies: [[spoiler: Moll repeatedly insists she stabbed her high school bully in self-defence and that it wasn't her fault, but later admits to Pascal and herself that she actually did it out of vengeance against the girl for tormenting her]].
* BirdsOfAFeather: Moll and Pascal. She even states at one point that "We're the same". [[spoiler: He says the same thing when he's trying to convince her not to kill him after she finds out he's a murderer. Unfortunately for him, [[ExactWords he is right about them having that in common]]]].
* BlackSheep: Moll is this in her family, due to the incident that led her being expelled from school. Her sister Polly outright calls Moll "a wild one" early in the film.
* BlatantLies: When Pascal comes to see Moll, Hilary answers the door and says she's not in...only for Moll to immediately appear behind her.
* BookEnds: At both the start of the film and close to the end, Moll is seen getting dressed in front of a mirror. She spots a long hair growing from her neck; at the start she yanks it off while at the end she leaves it alone.
* CinderellaCircumstances: Moll to an extent. She's forced to act as a caretaker for her father, who has dementia, and as a babysitter to her younger cousin. Her mother is extremely strict and controlling and is irritated with her for sneaking out to go dancing, where she meets a handsome stranger who offers her a life of passion and freedom.
* DarkAndTroubledPast:
** Moll's family are very overbearing and controlling, especially her mother. She was bullied at school, to the point where she stabbed a bully with a pair of scissors in self-defence [[spoiler: though as it later turns out, it was actually out of revenge]] and got expelled.
** Pascal's parents are both dead, he's been arrested multiple times for poaching and did time as a teenager for [[spoiler: assaulting a thirteen year old girl, although he claims the sex was consensual and the girl's parents blew it out of proportion out of hatred for him]].
* DatingWhatDaddyHates: It's clear part of the reason Moll likes being with Pascal is because of how much her family, especially her mother, don't approve of him.
* DestructiveRomance: Particularly in the second half of the film, Moll and Pascal's relationship becomes this. At one point, they get into a nasty, alcohol-fuelled fight, during which [[spoiler: Pascal actually [[DomesticAbuse chokes]] Moll in a rage]]. It ultimately culminates in [[spoiler: her strangling him to death after learning he's a murderer]].
* DidNotGetTheGuy: [[spoiler: In the end, Moll doesn't get the guy because of her ''own'' actions; she murders Pascal after he admits to being the serial killer]].
* DrowningMySorrows: Twice in the film, first on [[ABirthdayNotABreak her birthday]] and then later [[TraumaCongaLine near the end]], Moll gets completely wasted as a coping mechanism for emotional distress.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The opening scene of Moll's birthday party is this for a number of characters; Moll's sister Polly uses her congratulatory speech to Moll to [[ItsAllAboutMe publicly announce she's pregnant with twins]], her mother [[MyBelovedSmother Hilary]] orders Moll about and [[ParentalFavoritism seems unperturbed]] by Polly's actions, even calling it a cause for celebration, and Moll is seen [[StepfordSmiler practicing smiling]] in front of her bedroom mirror prior to the party.
* ExtremeDoormat: Moll starts out as one to her family, but quickly starts to rebel after she meets Pascal.
* FairytaleMotifs: Director and writer Michael Pearce described the film as being a bit of a deconstructed fairytale; Moll comes across as a typical fairytale heroine trapped in an oppressive life, who is offered freedom by a handsome stranger who lives in the woods. It's also been described as a "warped adult fairytale".
* FieryRedhead: Moll, although she's initially quite restrained. When she starts openly rebelling against her family though...
* GetOut: Hilary tells Moll this after the TakeThat mentioned below.
* HeelRealization: [[spoiler: Moll has one towards the end of the film; although she herself is more of an AntiHero than a villain, she comes to realise she is wrong for continuing to defend Pascal despite evidence he's a murderer]].
* HopeSpot: Two prominent ones.
** Round about the middle of the film, Moll [[spoiler: ditches her overbearing family and moves in with Pascal, finally feeling free and happy for the first time in her life. Then Pascal gets arrested for the murders...]]
** In the third act [[spoiler: Pascal is cleared of the murders when another man's DNA is found on the body of the latest victim; he's subsequently freed, reunited with Moll and they make plans to start a new life. But then she starts getting paranoid he was the killer after all]].
* InspiredBy: The film's story was partly inspired by the real-life case of Edward Paisnel, the "Beast of Jersey", a violent sex offender who terrorised the island of Jersey in the 1960's and early 1970's.
* {{Jerkass}}: Just about Moll's entire family qualifies. They all tend to be very self-centred and image-obsessed, and treat her like a servant even on her birthday.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Clifford may be a sleazy jerk to Moll, but he's right about [[spoiler: Pascal being bad news and Moll herself lacking the moral high ground for lying to the cops about Pascal]].
* LoveMakesYouEvil: [[spoiler: Moll lies to the police to protect Pascal when he's arrested for murder, out of love for him. She justifies it to herself that she 'knows' he's innocent, but it eventually becomes clear this [[BelievingTheirOwnLies isn't true]], at which point the guilt starts to eat away at her]].
* LoveMartyr: Moll becomes one to Pascal in the second half. She stands by him and even lies for him after [[spoiler: he's arrested for the murders]]. She also stays with him and insists she still loves him even after [[spoiler: he chokes her during a fight]]. [[spoiler: It's subverted in the end, as she kills him after he confesses to being a rapist and murderer]].
* MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: The first time Moll and Pascal have sex, it's in the middle of the woods.
* MisunderstoodLonerWithAHeartOfGold: Pascal comes across as this and Moll seems convinced he's this. [[spoiler: He's not]].
* MyBelovedSmother: Hilary. Dear ''god'' Hilary.
* OlderThanTheyLook: You'd be forgiven for thinking that Moll is in her late teens or early twenties, based on her general appearance, behaviour and the way her family treats her. She's actually just turned ''twenty-seven''.
* OneWordTitle: The film's title is simply ''Beast''. It fits with the "adult fairytale" theme of the movie and it's a bit ambiguous as to who or what exactly it's referring to.
* RebelliousSpirit: Moll fits this perfectly, with a large part of the film involving her escalating efforts to break free of her controlling, oppressive family, ranging from digging her dirty nails into the family's white couch, to destroying a country club's manicured lawn with a golf club.
* RescueRomance: Moll and Pascal first meet when he saves her from a man who was trying to kiss her against her will. They're instantly attracted to each other and begin a relationship shortly afterward.
* TheReveal:
** [[spoiler: Moll actually attacked the classmate who bullied her out of revenge, not self-defence, and even says she may have been trying to kill her]].
** The serial killer [[spoiler: really was Pascal all along]].
* {{Revenge}}: Detective Kelly suggests to Moll that the real reason she continues to defend Pascal [[spoiler: after he's arrested for murder and they find evidence she lied in her initial testimony]] is not because she genuinely believes he's innocent, but because she wants revenge against the community which have always ostracised her and made her feel unwanted. [[spoiler: Moll eventually admits to Pascal that she stabbed her school bully not in self-defense, but out of vengeance]].
* SceneryPorn: The film's dark subject matter is set against the beautiful landscapes of Jersey.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere:
** Moll isn't really enjoying her twenty-seventh birthday party, which [[MyBelovedSmother Hilary]] organised, but after her sister upstages it to announce her pregnancy, she has enough and sneaks off to go clubbing until the early hours.
** In the middle of the film, Moll [[spoiler: moves out of her family's house and goes to live with Pascal]].
Later, Moll tries to encourage Pascal to leave the island and start a new life somewhere else, though he's reluctant. [[spoiler: He is finally persuaded to go, as he wants Moll to be happy...but then he confesses he really was the killer at her urging]].
* SelfHarm: Early in the film, a stressed Moll deliberately squeezes her hand around a glass shard, causing a nasty cut. Later, while being berated by her mother, it's revealed she was digging her fingers into the cut, causing it start bleeding again. She later also spends a night lying in the grave of one of the murder victims without a coat or blanket, and even shoves dirt in her mouth.
* SerialKiller: One has been operating in Moll's community for a number of years, [[SerialRapist raping]] and killing young women. Pascal is suspected of being the killer, forming one of the main plots of the film. In the end, it's revealed [[spoiler: he really was the killer all along]].
* SignificantWardrobeShift: Moll starts out wearing sundresses in pale colours like yellow. As she becomes increasingly close to Pascal and begins rebelling against her family, she starts wearing the colour blue a lot more and also dresses in more casual clothes like sweaters and oversized T-shirts.
* StressVomit: After [[spoiler: Pascal's arrest for murder and being shown photos of the murder victims]], Moll starts feeling nauseous during her tour guide job and has to get off the bus to vomit on the side of the road.
* SurpriseCarCrash: A variation involving just one car. [[spoiler: At the end of the film, Moll and Pascal are idyllically driving along a back road in the woods. Moll asks Pascal to kiss her. As he does, she suddenly unclips his seatbelt and yanks on the steering wheel, causing the car to crash and flip over]].
* TakeThat: After Pascal is asked to leave a golf club for a dress code violation (he's wearing black jeans rather than dress pants) and Moll's family don't intervene, she announces she wants to make a toast and loudly states "To my family. For everything you've done for me. I forgive you."
* ToughLove: After Moll was expelled from school for stabbing another girl, she mentions her mother quit her job to homeschool her and tried to "beat the bad out of her". [[DeconstructedTrope Unfortunately]], Hilary's approach to parenting borders on or outright crosses into emotional abuse and in the end, only serves to make Moll want to rebel more.
* WhamLine: From Pascal near the end of the film. [[spoiler: "It's over. The [[SerialKiller others]]...they were nothing"]].
* WhatTheHellHero: Moll gets a lot of this for continuing to stand by Pascal even when he becomes a murder suspect, especially from Clifford when she [[spoiler: confesses that she lied to the police about Pascal's whereabouts the night they met]].
* WomanInWhite: At the end of the film, Moll puts on a white dress before going on a date with Pascal, where she makes the decision to [[spoiler: kill him after realising he's the murderer]].
* WouldHitAGirl: The serial killer specifically targets young women. At one point during an argument, [[spoiler: Pascal]] slams [[spoiler: Moll]] against a wall and chokes her.
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