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''(For other uses of the term "Bug", [[Main/{{Bug}} see the disambiguation page]])''
''Bug'' is a 2006 PsychologicalHorror/Tragedy film based on the 1996 play by Creator/TracyLetts (who also wrote the film adaptation), directed by Creator/WilliamFriedkin and starring Creator/AshleyJudd and Creator/MichaelShannon.
It centers around Agnes, an extremely lonely woman living in an Oklahoma motel room after the breakup of her marriage. A friend introduces her to Peter, who is similarly lonely, and the two start [[LonelyTogether enjoying each other's company]]. The two open up to each other and then...[[FromBadToWorse well...]]
The film and play presents us an intriguing example of folie à deux.
Not to be confused with the 1975 Creator/WilliamCastle-produced film about mutant cockroaches.
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!!The movie contains examples of:
* AmbiguousEnding: [[spoiler: The post credits sequence implies that they didn't set themselves on fire, but given the schizophrenic feeling of the movie itself, its ambiguous if they did or didn't.]]
* BlackComedy: A really dark take on a romantic comedy according to the films director William Friedkin.
* BrokenBird: Agnes. Doesn't help that she just came out of a an abusive relationship.
* ConspiracyTheorist: Peter, who believes bugs. [[spoiler: Agnes eventually agrees with Peter.]]
* CorruptTheCutie: What Peter does to Agnes. Agnes goes from a lonely, vulnerable woman to a tinfoil plastering suicidal conspiracy theorist.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Agnes is divorced from a real {{Jerkass}} - who's in prison at the start of the movie and shows up to threaten her - and her son was stolen from a supermarket cart while she was shopping. Her overwhelming guilt and sadness leave her receptive to Peter's peculiar charisma.
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Agnes and Peter kill themselves by setting themselves ''[[KillItWithFire on fire]]'']]
* ExtremelyShortTimespan: Though it’s not clear how much time passes in the film, [[spoiler: Agnes and Peter are DrivenToSuicide before the motel has time to evict them for non-payment, so]] it can’t cover a period of more than a couple weeks.
* FourthDateMarriage: [[PlayedForDrama A dark variation.]] Agnes [[spoiler: rejects her best friend, declares that Peter is the only thing she has, and kills herself with Peter]] after only knowing him a few weeks.
* GenreBusting: The film would normally be considered a psychological drama or thriller with horror elements while [[Creator/{{Lionsgate}} the studio]] promoted it as straight-up horror and the [[WordOfGod director considers it a dark romantic comedy.]]
* {{Jerkass}}: Jerry; a physically abusive man who is partially responsible for why Agnes is as broken as she is.
* InsaneEqualsViolent: Peter is this, to himself and others.
* LawOfConservationOfDetail: [[spoiler: Agnes and Peter use this type of reasoning to conclude how the bugs came to be and [[DrivenToSuicide the only way to stop them.]] ]]
* LonersAreFreaks: Peter, although he doesn't appear as such first, slowly develops into this as he reveals more about his paranoid state.
* LoveMakesYouCrazy: Or extreme loneliness, for that matter.
* MadnessSharedByTwo: A lonely, emotionally fragile waitress begins a romance with a mysterious drifter and spirals downwards into insanity as she comes to believe his theory that the government has used him in a bizarre experiment involving hatching bugs in his body.
* MindControlConspiracy: According to Peter, this is why he is on the run.
* MyGreatestFailure: [[spoiler: Agnes feels this way about not running away from her abusive ex with her son before her son was kidnapped.]]
* NeverTrustATrailer: [[https://youtu.be/POeCsA4Vb2M It's nothing like the fellow Lionsgate feature]] ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'' [[https://youtu.be/POeCsA4Vb2M movies.]] It's more of a slow burning psychological tragedy.
* PsychoSupporter: Agnes, albeit unwillingly. Peter isn't her first one, either.
* RiddleForTheAges: Are the phone calls real? If they are, who's calling? [[spoiler: One theory is it's Agnes' estranged son.]] [[spoiler: Was the fire real?]]
* RoomFullOfCrazy: The motel room slowly turns into one.
* SanitySlippage: Basically the plot of the movie, you watch two broken people slowly decay mentally as they believe the conspiracy theories that the government is planting bugs on people.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Peter claims to be this. It may even be true.
* TheToothHurts: Peter uses a pair of pliers to rip out his molar's filling which he believes is where the "egg sac" is. Boy, it sure isn't pretty to see tons of blood pouring out of his mouth like that while screaming in great pain. Regardless, Peter and Agnes both end up seeing the "bugs" in the tooth under the microscope.
* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: Everything in the film might be really happening. Or the characters could be heavy crystal meth users and we're seeing their delusions. Or Peter may be clinically insane and dragging Agnes into hell. You'll never know. [[spoiler:Unless you listen to the director's DVD commentary.]]
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''(For other uses of the term "Bug", [[Main/{{Bug}} see the disambiguation page]])''
''Bug'' is a 2006 PsychologicalHorror/Tragedy film based on the 1996 play by Creator/TracyLetts (who also wrote the film adaptation), directed by Creator/WilliamFriedkin and starring Creator/AshleyJudd and Creator/MichaelShannon.
It centers around Agnes, an extremely lonely woman living in an Oklahoma motel room after the breakup of her marriage. A friend introduces her to Peter, who is similarly lonely, and the two start [[LonelyTogether enjoying each other's company]]. The two open up to each other and then...[[FromBadToWorse well...]]
The film and play presents us an intriguing example of folie à deux.
Not to be confused with the 1975 Creator/WilliamCastle-produced film about mutant cockroaches.
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!!The movie contains examples of:
* AmbiguousEnding: [[spoiler: The post credits sequence implies that they didn't set themselves on fire, but given the schizophrenic feeling of the movie itself, its ambiguous if they did or didn't.]]
* BlackComedy: A really dark take on a romantic comedy according to the films director William Friedkin.
* BrokenBird: Agnes. Doesn't help that she just came out of a an abusive relationship.
* ConspiracyTheorist: Peter, who believes bugs. [[spoiler: Agnes eventually agrees with Peter.]]
* CorruptTheCutie: What Peter does to Agnes. Agnes goes from a lonely, vulnerable woman to a tinfoil plastering suicidal conspiracy theorist.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Agnes is divorced from a real {{Jerkass}} - who's in prison at the start of the movie and shows up to threaten her - and her son was stolen from a supermarket cart while she was shopping. Her overwhelming guilt and sadness leave her receptive to Peter's peculiar charisma.
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Agnes and Peter kill themselves by setting themselves ''[[KillItWithFire on fire]]'']]
* ExtremelyShortTimespan: Though it’s not clear how much time passes in the film, [[spoiler: Agnes and Peter are DrivenToSuicide before the motel has time to evict them for non-payment, so]] it can’t cover a period of more than a couple weeks.
* FourthDateMarriage: [[PlayedForDrama A dark variation.]] Agnes [[spoiler: rejects her best friend, declares that Peter is the only thing she has, and kills herself with Peter]] after only knowing him a few weeks.
* GenreBusting: The film would normally be considered a psychological drama or thriller with horror elements while [[Creator/{{Lionsgate}} the studio]] promoted it as straight-up horror and the [[WordOfGod director considers it a dark romantic comedy.]]
* {{Jerkass}}: Jerry; a physically abusive man who is partially responsible for why Agnes is as broken as she is.
* InsaneEqualsViolent: Peter is this, to himself and others.
* LawOfConservationOfDetail: [[spoiler: Agnes and Peter use this type of reasoning to conclude how the bugs came to be and [[DrivenToSuicide the only way to stop them.]] ]]
* LonersAreFreaks: Peter, although he doesn't appear as such first, slowly develops into this as he reveals more about his paranoid state.
* LoveMakesYouCrazy: Or extreme loneliness, for that matter.
* MadnessSharedByTwo: A lonely, emotionally fragile waitress begins a romance with a mysterious drifter and spirals downwards into insanity as she comes to believe his theory that the government has used him in a bizarre experiment involving hatching bugs in his body.
* MindControlConspiracy: According to Peter, this is why he is on the run.
* MyGreatestFailure: [[spoiler: Agnes feels this way about not running away from her abusive ex with her son before her son was kidnapped.]]
* NeverTrustATrailer: [[https://youtu.be/POeCsA4Vb2M It's nothing like the fellow Lionsgate feature]] ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'' [[https://youtu.be/POeCsA4Vb2M movies.]] It's more of a slow burning psychological tragedy.
* PsychoSupporter: Agnes, albeit unwillingly. Peter isn't her first one, either.
* RiddleForTheAges: Are the phone calls real? If they are, who's calling? [[spoiler: One theory is it's Agnes' estranged son.]] [[spoiler: Was the fire real?]]
* RoomFullOfCrazy: The motel room slowly turns into one.
* SanitySlippage: Basically the plot of the movie, you watch two broken people slowly decay mentally as they believe the conspiracy theories that the government is planting bugs on people.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Peter claims to be this. It may even be true.
* TheToothHurts: Peter uses a pair of pliers to rip out his molar's filling which he believes is where the "egg sac" is. Boy, it sure isn't pretty to see tons of blood pouring out of his mouth like that while screaming in great pain. Regardless, Peter and Agnes both end up seeing the "bugs" in the tooth under the microscope.
* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: Everything in the film might be really happening. Or the characters could be heavy crystal meth users and we're seeing their delusions. Or Peter may be clinically insane and dragging Agnes into hell. You'll never know. [[spoiler:Unless you listen to the director's DVD commentary.]]
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