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* AbusiveParents: [[spoiler: DownplayedTrope, given how little we see of their dynamic onscreen. That said, Grace's father's first reaction to her running away was to shoot at her, something Grace has said he has done before. She even thinks he's going to kill her when he pulls up, which she calmly appears to accept, only for him to say he wants to finish the conversation they had that caused her to flee in the first place]].

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\n* AbusiveParents: [[spoiler: DownplayedTrope, given how little we see of their dynamic onscreen. That [[spoiler:That said, Grace's father's first reaction to her running away was to shoot at her, something Grace has said he has done before. She even thinks he's going to kill her when he pulls up, which she calmly appears to accept, only for him to say he wants to finish the conversation they had that caused her to flee in the first place]]. place.]]



* AristocratsAreEvil: Or in this case, rich people are evil [[spoiler: Averted with the townsfolk who manage to be evil while being miserably poor.]]

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* AristocratsAreEvil: Or in this case, rich people are evil evil. [[spoiler: Averted with the townsfolk who manage to be evil while being miserably poor.]]



* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: Averted; [[spoiler: At the end of the massacre, Grace decides to spare the town dog]].

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* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: Averted; [[spoiler: At [[spoiler:at the end of the massacre, Grace decides to spare the town dog]].



* BetrayalByInaction: [[spoiler: Tom eventually becomes aware of Grace's mistreatment, such as her being raped on a nightly basis by the other male residents of Dogville, but does nothing to stop it. Despite this, Grace continues to believe in and trust him up until he outright abandons her completely. Grace makes his execution personal by shooting him with her own gun]].
* BlamingTheVictim: [[spoiler: Vera blames and abuses Grace after finding out what happened between her and Chuck, as she believes Grace made advances toward him. Even when the news comes out that Chuck was the one who forced himself on Grace, she's ''still'' blames Grace and only becomes more vicious toward her]].
* BreakTheCutie: Grace. [[spoiler: By Chapter 5, the town begins to put her through the wringer and it only gets worse with every chapter. She's emotionally abused and raped repeatedly, effectively held hostage to the point of being chained down so that she cannot make anymore escape attempts, and the only man she believed she could trust turned against her to stand with her tormentors. It's not surprising what she ends up doing to them all in the end]].

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* BetrayalByInaction: [[spoiler: Tom eventually becomes aware of Grace's mistreatment, such as her being raped on a nightly basis by the other male residents of Dogville, but does nothing to stop it. Despite this, Grace continues to believe in and trust him up until he outright abandons her completely. Grace makes his execution personal by shooting him with her own gun]].
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* BlamingTheVictim: [[spoiler: Vera blames and abuses Grace after finding out what happened between her and Chuck, as she believes Grace made advances toward him. Even when the news comes out that Chuck was the one who forced himself on Grace, she's she ''still'' blames Grace and only becomes more vicious toward her]].
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* BreakTheCutie: Grace. [[spoiler: By Chapter 5, the town begins to put her through the wringer and it only gets worse with every chapter. She's emotionally abused and raped repeatedly, effectively held hostage to the point of being chained down so that she cannot make anymore escape attempts, and the only man she believed she could trust turned against her to stand with her tormentors. It's not surprising what she ends up doing to them all in the end]].end.]]



* BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler: Any affection Grace had for Tom is completely gone by the end of the movie after she accepts that he allowed things to happen to her. It's because of this that she executes Tom herself]].

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* BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler: Any affection Grace had for Tom is completely gone by the end of the movie after she accepts that he allowed things to happen to her. It's because of this that she executes Tom herself]].herself.]]



* ConfessionCam: Used by the director, so the actors could cope with the [[spoiler: gruesome shooting.]] It's on the DVD extras.

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* ConfessionCam: Used by the director, so the actors could cope with the [[spoiler: gruesome shooting.]] shooting]]. It's on the DVD extras.



* CrapsaccharineWorld: While everyone is miserably poor, Dogville, at least on the surface, appears to be a nice community with kind people that labor together to make ends meet. [[spoiler: Though over the course of the movie, their true colors begin to come out]].
* ContrivedCoincidence: [[spoiler: Despite knowing nothing of what happened to her in Dogville, the conversation Grace's father wanted to finish with her that prompted her to escape into Dogville in the first place just happened to be the wake-up call she needed to decide to seek vengeance on the towns residents for their transgressions against her. It's justified in this instance given that the entire movie is a metaphor]].

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* CrapsaccharineWorld: While everyone is miserably poor, Dogville, at least on the surface, appears to be a nice community with kind people that labor together to make ends meet. [[spoiler: Though over the course of the movie, their true colors begin to come out]].
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* ContrivedCoincidence: [[spoiler: Despite knowing nothing of what happened to her in Dogville, the conversation Grace's father wanted to finish with her that prompted her to escape into Dogville in the first place just happened to be the wake-up call she needed to decide to seek vengeance on the towns town's residents for their transgressions against her. It's justified in this instance given that the entire movie is a metaphor]]. metaphor.]]



* TheDogBitesBack: Boy, does she. [[spoiler: Grace has ''everyone'' in Dogville executed save for the town dog, Moses.]]



* TheDitz: Ben Henson, no matter how much he studies, he continues to be as dumb as a doorknob.

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* TheDitz: Ben Henson, no matter how much he studies, he continues to be as dumb as a doorknob.



* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: Any sort of goodwill the town had toward Grace is gone completely when the sheriff makes his second visit, putting up a "Wanted" poster that accuses Grace of being involved in a robbery. It's then the town begins to show its true colors toward her]].
* HateSink: The whole townsfolk population. Seriously, no one is even a bit likable [[spoiler: not even Tom when he allows Dogville to continue to abuse Grace. In the end, he abandons her completely]].

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* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: Any sort of goodwill the town had toward Grace is gone completely when the sheriff makes his second visit, putting up a "Wanted" poster that accuses Grace of being involved in a robbery. It's then the town begins to show its true colors toward her]].
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* HateSink: The whole townsfolk population. Seriously, no one is even a bit likable likable, [[spoiler: not even Tom when he allows Dogville to continue to abuse Grace. In the end, he abandons her completely]].



** Chuck foreshadows the evils of the people of Dogville long before their true colors begin to show through. [[spoiler: He also ends up taking advantage of her when Grace expresses that she just sees him as a good friend, initiating the practice of the townspeople sexually assaulting her on a near nightly basis and making it clear that he’s no better than the people he despises]].

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** Chuck foreshadows the evils of the people of Dogville long before their true colors begin to show through. [[spoiler: He also ends up taking advantage of her when Grace expresses that she just sees him as a good friend, initiating the practice of the townspeople sexually assaulting her on a near nightly basis and making it clear that he’s no better than the people he despises]].despises.]]



* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: While it seemed initially that the people of Dogville weren't ''all'' bad despite their initial somewhat reasonable mistrust of Grace, a newcomer with an implied criminal background, they turn out to be just as rotten as Chuck said by Chapter 6, in which they all begin to turn on, and mistreat her for different reasons.



* KidsAreCruel: The town children humiliate Grace by making a habit out of ringing the bells every time [[spoiler: she's raped]] following in their parent's footsteps.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: While it seemed initially that the people of Dogville weren't ''all'' bad despite their initial somewhat reasonable mistrust of Grace, a newcomer with an implied criminal background, they turn out to be just as rotten as Chuck said by Chapter 6, in which they all begin to turn on, and mistreat her for different reasons.

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* KidsAreCruel: The town children humiliate Grace by making a habit out of ringing the bells every time [[spoiler: she's raped]] following in their parent's footsteps.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: While it seemed initially that the people of Dogville weren't ''all'' bad despite their initial somewhat reasonable mistrust of Grace, a newcomer with an implied criminal background, they turn out to be just as rotten as Chuck said by Chapter 6, in which they all begin to turn on, and mistreat her for different reasons.
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* {{Minimalism}}: in order to focus more on the characters and their actions and avoid immersion in the story (related to Bertolt Brecht ideas about epic theater) the entire village of Dogville drawn with chalk in the floor in a sound stage. This is particularly dramatic when [[spoiler:Grace is raped]]. The audience can see the crime taking place - and can also see the townspeople milling around obliviously while it occurs.



* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Grace does nothing but good deeds for the citizens, who in turn are [[UngratefulBastard Ungrateful Bastards]] who constantly expect more and later abuse and enslave her. [[spoiler:Later deconstructed as it turns out Grace is a MafiaPrincess and orders everyone in the town killed except for the one citizen who thought highly of her: Moses the dog.]]

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* {{Minimalism}}: In order to focus more on the characters and their actions and avoid immersion in the story (related to Bertolt Brecht's ideas about epic theater), the entire village of Dogville is drawn with chalk on the floor of a sound stage. This is particularly dramatic when [[spoiler:Grace is raped]]. The audience can see the crime taking place - and can also see the townspeople milling around obliviously while it occurs.
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Grace does nothing but good deeds for the citizens, who in turn are [[UngratefulBastard Ungrateful Bastards]] {{Ungrateful Bastard}}s who constantly expect more and later abuse and enslave her. [[spoiler:Later deconstructed as it turns out Grace is a MafiaPrincess and orders everyone in the town killed except for the one citizen who thought highly of her: Moses the dog.]]



* PayEvilUntoEvil:[[spoiler: Grace orders the deaths of all the townspeople and it's not hard to understand why she did it. Not just for revenge, not just because she decided that she cannot deny them responsibility anymore for what they did, but also to protect other people from falling prey to their cruelty and to make the world a better place.]]

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* PayEvilUntoEvil:[[spoiler: Grace PayEvilUntoEvil: [[spoiler:Grace orders the deaths of all the townspeople townspeople, and it's not hard to understand why she did it. Not just for revenge, not just because she decided that she cannot deny them responsibility anymore for what they did, but also to protect other people from falling prey to their cruelty and to make the world a better place.]]



* RapeAsDrama: [[spoiler: Chuck initially tries to emotionally blackmail Grace into having feelings for him. When it becomes apparent that she only views him as a good friend, he then goes to straight blackmail, using her need to hide from the cops to rape her. He continues to rape her while in the orchard, which Vera eventually finds out about. She's also raped by Ben, who she paid to help her escape town, only for him to bring her all the way back when Tom lies about her stealing his father's money from the medicine cabinet. By chapter 7, it becomes common practice for the other men in Dogville to rape her on a near-nightly basis]].

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* RapeAsDrama: [[spoiler: Chuck initially tries to emotionally blackmail Grace into having feelings for him. When it becomes apparent that she only views him as a good friend, he then goes to straight blackmail, using her need to hide from the cops to rape her. He continues to rape her while in the orchard, which Vera eventually finds out about. She's also raped by Ben, who she paid to help her escape town, only for him to bring her all the way back when Tom lies about her stealing his father's money from the medicine cabinet. By chapter 7, it becomes common practice for the other men in Dogville to rape her on a near-nightly basis]]. basis.]]
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech Most notable is [[spoiler: the Mafia Don's one to Grace, calling her arrogant for holding impossible high standards for herself; and forgiving everyone else for failing to meet them. She realizes he's right, and tells the Mob to kill everyone]].



* SinsOfOurFathers: [[spoiler: Heavily implied to be the reason Grace allows the Mafia to shoot and kill an innocent baby]].

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* SinsOfOurFathers: [[spoiler: Heavily implied to be the reason Grace allows the Mafia to shoot and kill an innocent baby]]. baby.]]



* TheSmartGuy: Tom likes to see himself as such, [[KnowNothingKnowItAll though he isn't]].



* TheDogBitesBack: Boy, does she. [[spoiler: Grace has ''everyone'' in Dogville executed save for the town dog, Moses]].
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech Most notable is [[spoiler: the Mafia Don's one to Grace, calling her arrogant for holding impossible high standards for herself; and forgiving everyone else for failing to meet them. She realizes he's right, and tells the Mob to kill everyone.]]
* TheSmartGuy: Tom likes to see himself as such, [[KnowNothingKnowItAll though he isn't]].



** [[spoiler: Tom betraying Grace by calling up the mobsters ends up being his undoing, as in the end, Grace has the whole town executed to prevent another innocent soul from being tormented by them. She also makes his execution personal because of his betrayal]].
** [[spoiler: Even Grace herself, although her stupidity doesn’t get her killed in the end. When things begin going south, she had plenty of opportunity to escape the way she came before they made her physically incapable of escaping, but stayed out of stubbornness and her own sense of moral superiority to the residents of Dogville, prompting her to forgive them. As well, when given the choice to leave with her father, who was the leader of the Mafia, an organization almost no better than Dogville but will guarantee some level of power and control over her life, or stay in Dogville, powerless and certain to be abused by her tormentors, likely even more so now that they know her origins, Grace almost chooses to stay out of spite for her father]].

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** [[spoiler: Tom betraying Grace by calling up the mobsters ends up being his undoing, as in the end, Grace has the whole town executed to prevent another innocent soul from being tormented by them. She also makes his execution personal because of his betrayal]].
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** [[spoiler: Even Grace herself, although her stupidity doesn’t get her killed in the end. When things begin going south, she had plenty of opportunity to escape the way she came before they made her physically incapable of escaping, but stayed out of stubbornness and her own sense of moral superiority to the residents of Dogville, prompting her to forgive them. As well, when given the choice to leave with her father, who was the leader of the Mafia, an organization almost no better than Dogville but will guarantee some level of power and control over her life, or stay in Dogville, powerless and certain to be abused by her tormentors, likely even more so now that they know her origins, Grace almost chooses to stay out of spite for her father]].father.]]



* WouldHurtAChild: Grace herself, while not obvious because she's played by Creator/NicoleKidman, is actually a teenager and therefore close to this, though not a true example. She fully [[spoiler: embraces this when she orders the mafia to kill Jason and the other children to torture Vera. And it isn't as extreme as it sounds since as many have accurately pointed out, the kids were just as morally repulsive as the parents. She also has her father's men shoot a baby.]]

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* WouldHurtAChild: Grace herself, while not obvious because she's played by Creator/NicoleKidman, is actually a teenager and therefore close to this, though not a true example. She fully [[spoiler: embraces this when she orders the mafia to kill Jason and the other children to torture Vera. And it isn't as extreme as it sounds since as many have accurately pointed out, the kids were just as morally repulsive as the parents. She also has her father's men shoot a baby.]]baby]].

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* AssholeVictim: The people of the town are all such massive pricks that you don't feel sympathy for ''any'' of them when [[spoiler: MafiaPrincess Grace orders the mobsters to kill them all.]]

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* AssholeVictim: The [[spoiler: Grace orders her father's thugs to kill everyone in Dogville and burn it to the ground, and they oblige because her father gave her free rein to give orders. It is most certainly not their first time, but the people of the town are all such massive pricks that you don't feel sympathy for ''any'' of them when [[spoiler: MafiaPrincess Grace orders the mobsters to kill them all.]]



* DeathOfAChild: [[spoiler: Jason and all the other kids in town are killed alongside the adults in the ending massacre. Even the baby is implicitly shot.]]



* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: Any sort of goodwill the town had toward Grace is gone completely when the sheriff makes his second visit, putting up a "Wanted" poster that accuses Grace of being involved in a robbery. It's then the town begins to show its true colors toward her]].



* ItsPersonal: [[spoiler: While Grace leaves the majority of the Dogville massacre to her father's goons, she takes care of Tom herself due to how he betrayed her]].
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: Any sort of goodwill the town had toward Grace is gone completely when the sheriff makes his second visit, putting up a "Wanted" poster that accuses Grace of being involved in a robbery. It's then the town begins to show its true colors toward her]].



* ImprobableInfantSurvival: [[spoiler: Averted. Even the baby is implicitly shot.]]



* ItsPersonal: [[spoiler: While Grace leaves the majority of the Dogville massacre to her father's goons, she takes care of Tom herself due to how he betrayed her.]]



* KickTheSonOfABitch [[spoiler: Grace orders her father's thugs to kill everyone in Dogville and burn it to the ground, and they oblige because her father gave her free rein to give orders. It is most certainly not their first time but this time almost everyone deserves it.]]



* WouldHurtAChild: Grace herself, while not obvious because she's played by Creator/NicoleKidman, is actually a teenager and therefore close to this, though not a true example. She fully [[spoiler: embraces this when she orders the mafia to kill Jason and the other children to torture Vera. And it isn't as extreme as it sounds since as many have accurately pointed out, the kids were just as morally repulsive as the parents. She also has her fathers men shoot a baby.]]

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* WouldHurtAChild: Grace herself, while not obvious because she's played by Creator/NicoleKidman, is actually a teenager and therefore close to this, though not a true example. She fully [[spoiler: embraces this when she orders the mafia to kill Jason and the other children to torture Vera. And it isn't as extreme as it sounds since as many have accurately pointed out, the kids were just as morally repulsive as the parents. She also has her fathers father's men shoot a baby.]]
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** [[spoiler: Even Grace herself, although her stupidity doesn’t get her killed in the end. When things begin going south, she had plenty of opportunity to escape the way she came before they made her physically incapable of escaping, but stayed out of stubbornness and her own sense of moral superiority to the residents of Dogville, prompting her to forgive them. As well, when given the choice to leave with her father, who was the leader of the Mafia, an organization almost no better than Dogville, or stay in Dogville, powerless and certain to be abused by her tormentors, likely even more so now that they know her origins, Grace almost chooses to stay out of spite for her father]].

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** [[spoiler: Even Grace herself, although her stupidity doesn’t get her killed in the end. When things begin going south, she had plenty of opportunity to escape the way she came before they made her physically incapable of escaping, but stayed out of stubbornness and her own sense of moral superiority to the residents of Dogville, prompting her to forgive them. As well, when given the choice to leave with her father, who was the leader of the Mafia, an organization almost no better than Dogville, Dogville but will guarantee some level of power and control over her life, or stay in Dogville, powerless and certain to be abused by her tormentors, likely even more so now that they know her origins, Grace almost chooses to stay out of spite for her father]].

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* CondescendingCompassion: [[spoiler: At the end of the film, Grace's father confronts her, claiming that she exonerates others and does not hold them accountable for their misdeeds because she does not believe they can achieve the same high ethical standards as she can]].



* CrapsaccharineWorld: While everyone is miserably poor, Dogville, at least on the surface, appears to be a nice community with kind people that labor together to make ends meet. [[spoiler: Though over the course of the movie, their true colors begin to come out]].
* ContrivedCoincidence: [[spoiler: Despite knowing nothing of what happened to her in Dogville, the conversation Grace's father wanted to finish with her that prompted her to escape into Dogville in the first place just happened to be the wake-up call she needed to decide to seek vengeance on the towns residents for their transgressions against her. It's justified in this instance given that the entire movie is a metaphor]].



* SinsOfOurFathers: [[spoiler: Heavily implied to be the reason Grace allows the Mafia to shoot and kill an innocent baby]].



* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler: Tom betraying Grace by calling up the mobsters ends up being his undoing, as in the end, Grace has the whole town executed to prevent another innocent soul from being tormented by them. She also makes his execution personal because of his betrayal]].

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** [[spoiler: Even Grace herself, although her stupidity doesn’t get her killed in the end. When things begin going south, she had plenty of opportunity to escape the way she came before they made her physically incapable of escaping, but stayed out of stubbornness and her own sense of moral superiority to the residents of Dogville, prompting her to forgive them. As well, when given the choice to leave with her father, who was the leader of the Mafia, an organization almost no better than Dogville, or stay in Dogville, powerless and certain to be abused by her tormentors, likely even more so now that they know her origins, Grace almost chooses to stay out of spite for her father]].

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* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: Averted; [[spoiler: At the end of the massacre, Grace decides to spare the town dog]].



* BreakTheCutie: Grace. [[spoiler: By Chapter 5, the town begins to put her through the wringer and it only gets worse with every chapter. She's emotionally abused and raped repeatedly, essentially held hostage, and the only man she trusted turned against her to side with her tormentors. It's not surprising what she ends up doing to them all in the end]].

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* BreakTheCutie: Grace. [[spoiler: By Chapter 5, the town begins to put her through the wringer and it only gets worse with every chapter. She's emotionally abused and raped repeatedly, essentially effectively held hostage, hostage to the point of being chained down so that she cannot make anymore escape attempts, and the only man she trusted believed she could trust turned against her to side stand with her tormentors. It's not surprising what she ends up doing to them all in the end]].



* ItsPersonal: [[spoiler: While Grace leaves the majority of the Dogville massacre to her father's goons, she takes care of Tom herself due to how he betrayed her]].



* {{Hypocrite}}: The townsfolk find it increasingly easy to rationalize and justify their increasingly exploitative and abusive treatment of Grace.

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* {{Hypocrite}}: The townsfolk find it increasingly easy to rationalize and justify their increasingly exploitative and abusive treatment of Grace.Grace because of her supposedly being connected to a robbery.
** Chuck foreshadows the evils of the people of Dogville long before their true colors begin to show through. [[spoiler: He also ends up taking advantage of her when Grace expresses that she just sees him as a good friend, initiating the practice of the townspeople sexually assaulting her on a near nightly basis and making it clear that he’s no better than the people he despises]].



* RapeAsDrama: [[spoiler: Chuck initially tries to emotionally blackmail Grace into having feelings for him. When it becomes apparent that she only views him as a good friend, he then goes to straight blackmail, using her need to hide from the cops to rape her. He continues to rape her while in the orchard, which Vera eventually finds out about. She's also raped by Ben, who she paid to help her escape town only for him to bring her all the way back when Tom lies about her stealing his father's money from the medicine cabinet. By chapter 7, it becomes common practice for the other men in Dogville to rape her on a near-nightly basis]].

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* RapeAsDrama: [[spoiler: Chuck initially tries to emotionally blackmail Grace into having feelings for him. When it becomes apparent that she only views him as a good friend, he then goes to straight blackmail, using her need to hide from the cops to rape her. He continues to rape her while in the orchard, which Vera eventually finds out about. She's also raped by Ben, who she paid to help her escape town town, only for him to bring her all the way back when Tom lies about her stealing his father's money from the medicine cabinet. By chapter 7, it becomes common practice for the other men in Dogville to rape her on a near-nightly basis]].



* SlutShaming: Part of the reason the women in Dogville turn on Grace is because they perceive her as being promiscuous [[spoiler: and continue to perceive her this way even when it becomes clear that she's being abused sexually]].



* WeUsedToBeFriends: Grace and Liz got along swimmingly until Liz finds out that Tom and Grace have been sneaking around together. Then she turns on her like everyone else with the implication that it was out of jealousy.

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* WeUsedToBeFriends: Grace and Liz got along swimmingly until Liz finds out that Tom and Grace have been sneaking around together. Then she turns on Her jealousy makes turn her like back on Grace and treat her just as terribly as everyone else with the implication that it was out of jealousy.does.



* WouldHurtAChild: Grace herself, while not obvious because she's played by Creator/NicoleKidman, is actually a teenager and therefore close to this, though not a true example. She fully [[spoiler: embraces this when she orders the mafia to kill Jason and the other children to torture Vera. And it isn't as extreme as it sounds since as many have accurately pointed out, the kids were just as morally repulsive as the parents.]]

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* WouldHurtAChild: Grace herself, while not obvious because she's played by Creator/NicoleKidman, is actually a teenager and therefore close to this, though not a true example. She fully [[spoiler: embraces this when she orders the mafia to kill Jason and the other children to torture Vera. And it isn't as extreme as it sounds since as many have accurately pointed out, the kids were just as morally repulsive as the parents. She also has her fathers men shoot a baby.]]
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech Most notable is [[spoiler: the Mafia Don's one to Grace, calling her arrogant for holding impossible high standards for herself; and forgiving everyone else for failing to meet them. She realizes he's right, and tells the Mob to KillEmAll.]]

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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech Most notable is [[spoiler: the Mafia Don's one to Grace, calling her arrogant for holding impossible high standards for herself; and forgiving everyone else for failing to meet them. She realizes he's right, and tells the Mob to KillEmAll.kill everyone.]]



* WorldOfJerkass: The ''entire'' town of Dogville is this; there is not a single redeemable character and [[spoiler: quite fittingly, the citizens deserved to be [[KillEmAll massacred]] after their horrible treatment to Grace]].

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* WorldOfJerkass: The ''entire'' town of Dogville is this; there is not a single redeemable character and [[spoiler: quite fittingly, the citizens deserved to be [[KillEmAll massacred]] massacred after their horrible treatment to Grace]].
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* KillEmAll: [[spoiler: Nicole Kidman's character takes the name of this trope literally and indeed sends her goons to kill the entire village, except the dog.]]
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* AbusiveParents: [[spoiler: DownplayedTrope, given how little we see of their dynamic onscreen. That said, Grace's father's first reaction to her running away was to shoot at her, something Grace has said he's done before. She even thinks he's going to kill her when he pulls up, something she calmly appears to accept, only for him to say he wants to finish the conversation they were having that caused her to run away in the first place]].

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* AbusiveParents: [[spoiler: DownplayedTrope, given how little we see of their dynamic onscreen. That said, Grace's father's first reaction to her running away was to shoot at her, something Grace has said he's he has done before. She even thinks he's going to kill her when he pulls up, something which she calmly appears to accept, only for him to say he wants to finish the conversation they were having had that caused her to run away flee in the first place]].
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* AbusiveParents: [[spoiler: DownplayedTrope, given how little we see of their dynamic onscreen. That said, Grace's father's first reaction to her running away was to shoot at her, something Grace has said he's done before. She even thinks he's going to kill her when he pulls up, something she calmly appears to accept, only for him to say he wants to finish the conversation they were having that caused her to run away in the first place]].
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* HateSink: The whole townsfolk population. Seriously, except maybe for Tom, no one is even a bit likable.

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* HateSink: The whole townsfolk population. Seriously, except maybe for Tom, no one is even a bit likable.likable [[spoiler: not even Tom when he allows Dogville to continue to abuse Grace. In the end, he abandons her completely]].

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* BreakTheCutie: Grace.

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* BetrayalByInaction: [[spoiler: Tom eventually becomes aware of Grace's mistreatment, such as her being raped on a nightly basis by the other male residents of Dogville, but does nothing to stop it. Despite this, Grace continues to believe in and trust him up until he outright abandons her completely. Grace makes his execution personal by shooting him with her own gun]].
* BlamingTheVictim: [[spoiler: Vera blames and abuses Grace after finding out what happened between her and Chuck, as she believes Grace made advances toward him. Even when the news comes out that Chuck was the one who forced himself on Grace, she's ''still'' blames Grace and only becomes more vicious toward her]].
* BreakTheCutie: Grace. [[spoiler: By Chapter 5, the town begins to put her through the wringer and it only gets worse with every chapter. She's emotionally abused and raped repeatedly, essentially held hostage, and the only man she trusted turned against her to side with her tormentors. It's not surprising what she ends up doing to them all in the end]].



* BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler: Any affection Grace had for Tom is completely gone by the end of the movie after she accepts that he allowed things to happen to her. It's because of this that she executes Tom herself]].



* CrapsaccharineWorld
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* CrapsaccharineWorld
ConflictingLoyalty: How Tom feels about having to choose between protecting Grace and siding with the people of Dogville. He's initially starkly in favor of protecting Grace, [[spoiler: though it's implied early on that he's flaky. While he initially wanted to bring Chuck to justice after finding out that he forced himself on Grace, when the men of the town raping Grace becomes a regular occurrence, he does nothing about it, [[ItsAllAboutMe only taking it personally as if his own ego had been bruised]]. In another instance, when it comes out that he had stolen money from his father's medicine cabinet to help Grace escape, he pins the on Grace and claims that he only did so so that he can continue helping her, even though her taking the blame only made her situation far, far worse. In the end, he fully pushes in the direction of being on Dogville's side, forsaking Grace entirely and calling in the mobsters to collect her, not realizing that she's a MafiaPrincess and that they're ''very'' protective of her. This ends up being his undoing in the end, and Grace makes sure to make his execution personal]].
* DeadpanSnarker: The narrator most of the time does some very cold remarks while narrating each chapter. Unlike many other examples examples, this sounds very humorously dark with very little, if any, fun in it.it.
* DoggedNiceGuy: Tom to Grace, as he's the only one who is consistently kind to Grace and hopes she feels the same way about him as he does her. And she does, initially [[spoiler: until it's revealed that he's only reluctantly helping her for himself. In the end, he turns on her to side with Dogville, her tormentors]].



* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: Any sort of goodwill the town had toward Grace is gone completely when the sheriff makes his second visit, putting up a "Wanted" poster that accuses Grace of being involved in a robbery. It's then the town begins to show its true colors toward her]].



** [[spoiler: The Mafia Don]] calls Grace one as part of TheReasonYouSuckSpeech he gives her. He argues that refusing to condemn others for behaving like monsters, while holding herself to impossibly high moral standards, is not magnanimous, it's condescending and shows she thinks of herself as better than everyone else.

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** [[spoiler: The Mafia Don]] calls Grace one as part of TheReasonYouSuckSpeech he gives her. He argues that refusing to condemn others for behaving like monsters, monsters while holding herself to impossibly high moral standards, is not magnanimous, it's condescending and shows she thinks of herself as better than everyone else.



* ItsAllAboutMe: It takes a while for Grace to realize, but Tom's more concerned about his philosophical "illustration" than he is about her.

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* ItsAllAboutMe: It takes a while for Grace to realize, but Tom's more concerned about his philosophical "illustration" than he is about her. He even expects Grace, who had by that point been put through the wringer and raped repeatedly, to comfort him sexually for all he's had to do for her.



* KickTheSonOfABitch [[spoiler: Grace orders her father's thugs to kill everyone in Dogsville and burn it to the ground, and they oblige because her father gave her free rein to give orders. It is most certainly not their first time but this time almost everyone deserves it.]]
* KidsAreCruel: The town children humiliate Grace by making a habit out of ringing the bells everytime [[spoiler: she's raped]] following in their parents footsteps.

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* KickTheSonOfABitch [[spoiler: Grace orders her father's thugs to kill everyone in Dogsville Dogville and burn it to the ground, and they oblige because her father gave her free rein to give orders. It is most certainly not their first time but this time almost everyone deserves it.]]
* KidsAreCruel: The town children humiliate Grace by making a habit out of ringing the bells everytime every time [[spoiler: she's raped]] following in their parents parent's footsteps.



* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: While it seemed initially that the people of Dogville weren't ''all'' bad despite their initial somewhat reasonable mistrust of Grace, a newcomer with an implied criminal background, they turn out to be just as rotten as Chuck said by Chapter 6, in which they all begin to turn on, and mistreat her for different reasons.



* RapeAsDrama

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* RapeAsDramaRapeAsDrama: [[spoiler: Chuck initially tries to emotionally blackmail Grace into having feelings for him. When it becomes apparent that she only views him as a good friend, he then goes to straight blackmail, using her need to hide from the cops to rape her. He continues to rape her while in the orchard, which Vera eventually finds out about. She's also raped by Ben, who she paid to help her escape town only for him to bring her all the way back when Tom lies about her stealing his father's money from the medicine cabinet. By chapter 7, it becomes common practice for the other men in Dogville to rape her on a near-nightly basis]].



* TheDogBitesBack: Boy, does she.

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* TheDogBitesBack: Boy, does she. [[spoiler: Grace has ''everyone'' in Dogville executed save for the town dog, Moses]].



* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler: Tom betraying Grace by calling up the mobsters ends up being his undoing, as in the end, Grace has the whole town executed to prevent another innocent soul from being tormented by them. She also makes his execution personal because of his betrayal]].



* WeUsedToBeFriends: Grace and Liz got along swimmingly until Liz finds out that Tom and Grace have been sneaking around together. Then she turns on her like everyone else with the implication that it was out of jealousy.



* WorldOfJerkass: The ''entire'' town of Dogville is this; [[spoiler: quite fitting the citizens deserved to be [[KillEmAll massacred]] after their horrible treatment to Grace.]]

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* WorldOfJerkass: The ''entire'' town of Dogville is this; there is not a single redeemable character and [[spoiler: quite fitting fittingly, the citizens deserved to be [[KillEmAll massacred]] after their horrible treatment to Grace.]]Grace]].
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* TheTallDarkStranger: a twist on the concept in that Grace is far more Jesus than Satan, but her vulnerability still reveals the worst of the townfolk's natures, and by the end of it she decides that yes, everything in the town (except the dog) needs to be dead and/or on fire.
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* SouthernGothicSatan: A twist on the concept in that Grace is far more Jesus than Satan, but her vulnerability still reveals the worst of the townfolk's natures, and by the end of it she decides that yes, everything in the town (except the dog) needs to be dead and/or on fire.
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** [[spoiler: The Mafia Don]] calls Grace one as part of TheReasonYouSuckSpeech he gives her. He argues that refusing to condemn others for behaving like monsters, while holding herself to impossibly high moral standards, is not magnanimous, it's condescending and shows she thinks of herself as better than everyone else.
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* WouldHurtAChild: Grace herself, while not obvious because she's played by Creator/NicoleKidman is actually a teenager and therefore close to this, though not a true example. She fully [[spoiler: embraces this when she orders the mafia to kill Jason and the other children to torture Vera. And it isn't as extreme as it sounds since as many have accurately pointed out, the kids were just as morally repulsive as the parents.]]

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* WouldHurtAChild: Grace herself, while not obvious because she's played by Creator/NicoleKidman Creator/NicoleKidman, is actually a teenager and therefore close to this, though not a true example. She fully [[spoiler: embraces this when she orders the mafia to kill Jason and the other children to torture Vera. And it isn't as extreme as it sounds since as many have accurately pointed out, the kids were just as morally repulsive as the parents.]]
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* AllMenArePerverts: Almost every man in Dogville tries to extort from Grace sexual favours.

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* AllMenArePerverts: Almost every man in Dogville tries to extort from Grace sexual favours. favors from Grace.
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* AllMenArePerverts: Almost every man in Dogville tries to extort Grace sexual favours.

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* AllMenArePerverts: Almost every man in Dogville tries to extort from Grace sexual favours.



* HateSink: The whole townspeople. Seriously, except maybe for Tom, no one is even a bit likable.

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* HateSink: The whole townspeople.townsfolk population. Seriously, except maybe for Tom, no one is even a bit likable.



* KickTheSonOfABitch [[spoiler: Grace orders her father's thugs to kill everyone in Dogsville and burn it to the ground, and they oblige because her father gave her free rein to give orders. It is most likely not their first time but this time almost everyone deserves it.]]
* KidsAreCruel: The town children humiliates Grave by ringing the bells everytime [[spoiler: she's raped.]]

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* KickTheSonOfABitch [[spoiler: Grace orders her father's thugs to kill everyone in Dogsville and burn it to the ground, and they oblige because her father gave her free rein to give orders. It is most likely certainly not their first time but this time almost everyone deserves it.]]
* KidsAreCruel: The town children humiliates Grave humiliate Grace by making a habit out of ringing the bells everytime [[spoiler: she's raped.]]raped]] following in their parents footsteps.

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* AllMenArePerverts: Almost every man in Dogville tries to extort Grace sexual favours.



* HateSink: The whole townspeople. Seriously, except maybe for Tom, no one is likable at all.

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* HateSink: The whole townspeople. Seriously, except maybe for Tom, no one is likable at all.even a bit likable.


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* KidsAreCruel: The town children humiliates Grave by ringing the bells everytime [[spoiler: she's raped.]]
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* HateSink: The whole townspeople. Seriously, except maybe for Tom, no one is likable at all.
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* TheTallDarkStranger: a twist on the concept in that Grace is far more Jesus than Satan, but her vulnerability still reveals the worst of the townfolk's natures, and by the end of it she decides that yes, everything in the town (except the dog) needs to be dead and/or on fire.
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* SoBeautifulItsACurse: Liz.

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* SoBeautifulItsACurse: Liz.Liz thinks she's this. Grace becomes an actual victim of this at the hands of the town.
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* DeadpanSnarker: The narrator most of the time does some very cold remarks while narrating each chapter. Unlike many other examples this sounds very humorously dark with very little, if any, fun in it.
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* WorldOfJerkass: The ''entire'' town of Dogville is this; [[spoiler: quite fitting the citizens deserved to be [[KillEmAll massacred]] after their horrible treatment to Grace.]]
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The film is the first installment of a planned (and currently unfinished) "Land of Opportunities" trilogy, all sharing the same visual style and plots highly critical of American culture. The second installment, ''Film/{{Manderlay}}'', takes place in the DeepSouth and comments on racism. It's based in part on Brecht's opera ''Theatre/TheRiseAndFallOfTheCityOfMahagonny'' and [[TheOtherDarrin replaces Kidman with Bryce Dallas Howard]] as Grace. The third installment, ''Wasington'' [sic], has yet to emerge from DevelopmentHell.

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The film is the first installment of a planned (and currently unfinished) "Land of Opportunities" trilogy, all sharing the same visual style and plots highly critical of American culture. The second installment, ''Film/{{Manderlay}}'', takes place in the DeepSouth and comments on racism. It's based in part on Brecht's opera ''Theatre/TheRiseAndFallOfTheCityOfMahagonny'' and [[TheOtherDarrin replaces Kidman with Bryce Dallas Howard]] as Grace. The third installment, ''Wasington'' [sic], has yet to emerge from DevelopmentHell.DevelopmentHell, and most likely won't see the light of the day.
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* KickTheSonOfABitch [[spoiler: Grace's father thugs to kill everyone in Dogsville and burn it to the ground and they oblige because her father gave her free rein to give orders. It is most likely not their first time but this time almost everyone deserves it.]]

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* KickTheSonOfABitch [[spoiler: Grace's father Grace orders her father's thugs to kill everyone in Dogsville and burn it to the ground ground, and they oblige because her father gave her free rein to give orders. It is most likely not their first time but this time almost everyone deserves it.]]



* MessianicArchetype: Grace throughout the whole play. She offers inspiration and kindness, asking only to be allowed to help others and live peacefully among them. Eventually, she suffers for the sins of others and even ends up lugging around a cross analog. In the end [[spoiler: She's offered up as a sacrifice by the towns people and her father shows up to save her. Then it's all turned on its head when he talks her OUT of turning the other cheek any longer and she has the town wiped out for what they did to her.]]

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* MessianicArchetype: Grace throughout the whole play. She offers inspiration and kindness, asking only to be allowed to help others and live peacefully among them. Eventually, she suffers for the sins of others and even ends up lugging around a cross analog. In the end [[spoiler: She's she's offered up as a sacrifice by the towns people and her father shows up to save her. Then it's all turned on its head when he talks her OUT of turning the other cheek any longer and she has the town wiped out for what they did to her.]]



* PayEvilUntoEvil:[[spoiler: Grace orders the deaths of all the townspeople and it's not hard to understand why she did it. Not just for revenge, not just because she decided that she cannot deny them responsibily anymore for what they did, but also to protect other people from falling prey to their cruelty and to make the world a better place.]]

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* PayEvilUntoEvil:[[spoiler: Grace orders the deaths of all the townspeople and it's not hard to understand why she did it. Not just for revenge, not just because she decided that she cannot deny them responsibily responsibility anymore for what they did, but also to protect other people from falling prey to their cruelty and to make the world a better place.]]
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* theDogBitesBack: Boy, does she.

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* theDogBitesBack: TheDogBitesBack: Boy, does she.
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* theDogBitesBack: Boy, does she.
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* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism: Hard, hard to cynicism.

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