History Film / FlickeringLights

* NoAnimalsWereHarmed: Averted, the cow Arne is shown shooting was killed for real, although the actual killing was carried out by a stuntman who was a trained vet.

* AddictionDisplacement: Downplayed. Peter gets over his addiction to cocaine... by becoming TheAlcoholic instead. However, this ''is'' still played as a significant improvement, and Peter becomes much more helpful and easy to deal with afterwards.

* AddictionDisplacement: Downplayed. Peter gets over his drug addiction... by becoming TheAlcoholic instead. However, this ''is'' played as a significant improvement, and Peter becomes much more helpful and easy to deal with afterwards.

* ARealManIsAKiller: Alfred seems to believe this, asking Arne if he has never shot someone for real and how it felt in a intrigued tone. [[spoiler:Notably, after his BigDamnHeroes moment where he shoots and kills the Faroese and his gang, he is notably shocked by the event and becomes somewhat subdued and quiet afterwards.]]

''Flickering Lights'' (Blinkende Lygter) is a Danish BlackComedy film from 2000, written and directed by Anders Thomas Jensen, and starring Søren Pilmark, Creator/UlrichThomsen, Creator/MadsMikkelsen, and Nikolaj Lie Kaas.

* TitleDrop: The group decides that they should name their restaurant "Blinkende Lygter" after a poem, which they misattribute to the poet Ove Ditlevsen (actually the poet's name is ''T''ove Ditlevsen).

* AddictionDisplacement: Downplayed. Peter gets over his drug addiction... by becoming TheAlcoholic instead.

* FrontierDoctor: Dr. Karl fits the bill, being the resisted doctor in a small country town. He even has several of the flaws associated with the trope, such as being TheAlcoholic and gladly accepting a bribe from the gang to keep his treatment of Peter a secret.

* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:As the gang is held at gunpoint by the furious Faroese and his men, Alfred arrives and saves them by killing the gangsters.]]

* ARealManIsAKiller: Alfred seems to believe this, asking Arne if he has never shot someone for real and how it felt in a intrigued tone. [[spoiler:Notably, after his BigDamnHeroes moment where he shoots and kills the Faroese and his gang, he is notably shocked by the event and becomes somewhat subdued and quite afterwards.]]

* FunctionalAddict: Notably averted with Peter, who is effectively TheLoad to the gang because of his drug addiction making him unpredictable and constantly desperate for more, to the point where he almost gives their location away by calling his pusher. It is to the point that when he replaces his drug addiction with an alcohol addiction it is actually an improvement as he becomes notably more stable afterwards.

After some weeks in hiding, Thorkild decides to use the stolen money to buy the house they are hiding in and turn it to a restaurant and tries to employ his gang members as staff, something they react to with varying degrees of reluctance. The whole thing create tensions within the group, and their respective {{Dark and Troubled Past}}s starts bubbling to the surface. And of course, there is also the small matter of the Faroese and his men hunting for them...

* BrosBeforeHoes: [[spoiler:Stefan is initially successfully pressured by his girlfriend into leave the gang behind, but he deciding that the gang are his TrueCompanions, he turns around.]]

The story centers around a four man group of low-level gangsters from Copenhagen: Thorkild (Pilmark), TheLeader of the small group who is struggling with an on-coming mid-life crisis, Peter (Thomsen), who suffers from a crippling drug addiction, Arne (Mikkelsen), a rather unpredictable GunNut, and Stefan (Kaas), a somewhat spineless YesMan and BigEater. Indebted to the feared mobster known as "The Faroese", Thorkild and his gang is given a job by said mobster to commit a break-in, steal four million Danish kroner, and then bring them to him. The group, however, decides that they would rather keep the money for themselves on the money, planning to escape to Barcelona after the heist. Their plans, however, go south as Peter gets shot during the break-in, and they are forced to take hiding in in the Danish countryside, in a run-down, abandoned house in the middle of a forest near a small village, to allow Peter to recover.

The story centers around a four man group of low-level gangsters from Copenhagen: Thorkild (Pilmark), TheLeader of the small group who is struggling with an on-coming mid-life crisis, Peter (Thomsen), who suffers from a crippling drug addiction, Arne (Mikkelsen), a rather unpredictable GunNut, and Stefan (Kaas), a somewhat spineless YesMan and BigEater. Indebted to the feared mobster known as "The Faroese", Thorkild and his gang is given a job by said mobster to commit a break-in, steal four million Danish kroner, and then bring them to him. The group, however, decides that they would rather keep the money for themselves on the money, planning to escape to Barcelona after the heist. Their plans, however, go south as Peter is shut and wounded during the break-in, and they are forced to take hiding in in the Danish countryside, in a run-down, abandoned house in the middle of a forest near a small village, to allow Peter to recover.

* GenericEthnicCrimeGang: Not so generic though, seeing how they are Faroese.

* TitleDrop: The group decides that they should name their restaurant "Blinkende Lygter" after a poem, which they misattribute the poet Ove Ditlevsen (actually the poet's name is ''T''ove Ditlevsen).

* TitleDrop: The group decides that they should name their restaurant "Blinkende Lygter" after a poem.

The story centers around a four man group of low-level Danish gangsters: Thorkild (Pilmark), TheLeader of the small group who is struggling with an on-coming mid-life crisis, Peter (Thomsen), who suffers from a crippling drug addiction, Arne (Mikkelsen), a rather unpredictable GunNut, and Stefan (Kaas), a somewhat spineless YesMan and BigEater. Indebted to the feared mobster known as "The Faroese", Thorkild and his gang is given a job by said mobster to commit a break-in, steal four million Danish kroner, and then bring them to him. The group, however, decides that they would rather keep the money for themselves on the money, planning to escape to Barcelona after the heist. Their plans, however, go south as Peter is shut and wounded during the break-in, and they are forced to take hiding in in the Danish countryside, in a run-down, abandoned house in the middle of a forest near a small village, to allow Peter to recover.