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** When Noa is having short ribs, Steve declines trying some because he doesn't eat "[[ExactWords animals]]", and is suspiciously eager to see Noa eat a lot.

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** When Noa is having short ribs, Steve declines trying some because [[SuspiciouslySpecific Denial he doesn't eat eat]] "[[ExactWords animals]]", and is suspiciously eager to see Noa eat a lot.


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* RedIsViolent: Most scenes have a strong red ColorMotif: the red lighting in the bar where Mollie is, the red light at the boxing gym, and Noa's red sweater when she goes with Steve being just a few examples.
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** When Noa tells Mollie about Steve, the first thing Mollie says is that [[spoiler:"he's probably married."]] [[spoiler:It's the least of Noa's worries, but he is.]]

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* DeadManWriting: The woman who wrote in the magazine Steve lets Noah read, though subverted in that she wastes no time announcing that she is dead, presumably because of how obvious that would be.

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* DeadManWriting: The woman who wrote in the magazine Steve lets Noah Noa read, though subverted in that she wastes no time announcing that she is dead, presumably because of how obvious that would be.



* IncrediblyLamePun: When Steve serves Noa human breast meat, she points out that he "saved the breast for last".



* {{Pun}}: When Steve serves Noa human breast meat, she points out that he "saved the breast for last".



** Penny thinks it's unlikely that she's hallucinating Noa, because she doesn't think her subconscious would have named her imaginary friend "Noah", but rather Creator/SeanConnery.

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** Penny thinks it's unlikely that she's hallucinating Noa, because she doesn't think her subconscious would have named her imaginary friend "Noah", "Noa", but rather Creator/SeanConnery.
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''Fresh'' is a HorrorComedy film directed by Mimi Cave. It screened at UsefulNotes/{{Sundance}} before being picked up by [[Creator/SearchlightPictures Disney]] for a release on March 4, 2022 on Creator/{{Hulu}}.

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''Fresh'' is a HorrorComedy film directed by Mimi Cave. It screened at UsefulNotes/{{Sundance}} Platform/{{Sundance}} before being picked up by [[Creator/SearchlightPictures Disney]] for a release on March 4, 2022 on Creator/{{Hulu}}.
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* TrustPassword: Invoked. Mollie gets suspicious someone else is texting her on Noa's phone when her message of "Love you" gets a heart emoji instead of "love you more". "Love you" "Love you more" is an exchange that was established twice before as a regular back-and-forth between the two women, so the text not following this pattern gets Mollie concerned.

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** [[spoiler:When Noa bites his penis off, she smears something white in Steve's face. It is natural to assume that this is sperm, but a brief shot of a tube of toothpaste lying on the floor proves that assumption wrong.]]

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** [[spoiler:When Noa bites his penis off, she smears something white in Steve's face. It is natural to assume that this is sperm, semen, but a brief shot of a tube of toothpaste lying on the floor proves that assumption wrong.]]



* CentralTheme: Misogyny. The film opens with the frame of dating gone bad with an asshole who tells Noa she should be more feminine and pretty, and then centers on Steve, a predator who literally commodifies women's bodies as meat and who participates in pettier misogyny (he asks Noa to smile for him in a dire situation, invoking a common sexist microaggression). The film ends with Steve's female victims all rescuing themselves through their teamwork and support, with their male ally, Paul, leaving the scene without confirming they're there to avoid becoming a victim himself. The film also illustrates how women can participate in misogynist oppression through [[spoiler:Ann, a partially-cannibalized victim of Steve's who works with him from time to time for his cannibal network]], and Mollie explicitly declares that women like her are the problem.



** Mollie suspects that the man whose house she is in has kidnapped her friend. She tests her theory by calling her friend's phone. It rings in his pocket, just like she thought it might, confirming her theory.
** For Steve, letting a budding cannibal go down on him is a ballsy move to say the least.

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** Mollie suspects that the man whose house she is in has kidnapped her friend. She tests her theory by calling her friend's Noa's phone. It rings in his pocket, just like she thought it might, confirming her theory.
theory...but also immediately endangering her, resulting in Steve and Ann knocking her out immediately after.
** For Steve, letting a woman he thinks is a budding cannibal go down on him is a ballsy move to say the least.



* GayBestFriend: A variant. Mollie is bisexual, and she is mostly Noa's best friend whose job is to look for Noa after she gets kidnapped.
* GenreSavvy: Paul. He arrives at the cabin in the middle of the woods just as the girls are escaping. Unfortunately, he misses that, as he remembers what happens when a black guy in a movie tries to enter the abandoned mansion in the middle of nowhere, and he drives away.

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* GayBestFriend: A variant. Mollie is bisexual, and she is mostly Noa's best friend whose job role is to look for Noa after she gets kidnapped.
* GenreSavvy: Paul. He arrives at the cabin in the middle of the woods just as the girls are escaping. escaping and Steve is shooting at them. Unfortunately, he misses that, them, as he remembers what happens when a black guy in a movie tries to enter the abandoned mansion in the middle of nowhere, nowhere after hearing gunshots, and he drives away.



* HighClassCannibal: Steve is a wealthy doctor who always had a cannibalism fetish, then procured women for "the 1% of the 1%", cuts off their body parts and sells their meat to this sizeable network.

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* HighClassCannibal: Steve is a wealthy doctor who always had a cannibalism fetish, then procured went into procuring women for "the 1% of the 1%", cuts cutting off their body parts and sells selling their meat to this sizeable network.



* HollywoodSatanism: The last scene shows [[spoiler:a group of robed people eating then a {{Baphomet}} symbol is shown, implying these are Steve's clients, Satanists eating human flesh.]]
* IKnowYouKnowIKnow: After trying to expose Brendan in front of his wife, Mollie really has no way out of this.

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* HollywoodSatanism: The last scene shows [[spoiler:a group of robed people eating human flesh, then a {{Baphomet}} symbol is shown, implying these are Steve's clients, clients-- Satanists eating human flesh.]]
* IKnowYouKnowIKnow: After trying to expose Brendan in front of his wife, Mollie really has no way out of this.the situation, as both of them take her down for Steve to operate on her.



** [[spoiler:Noa, albeit only to gain her captor's trust.]]

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** [[spoiler:Noa, albeit only to gain her captor's trust. She's sickened by it in private.]]



* IncrediblyLamePun: When Steve serves her breast, Noa points out that he "saved the breast for last".

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* IncrediblyLamePun: When Steve serves her breast, Noa human breast meat, she points out that he "saved the breast for last".



* KilledOffscreen: Noa is imprisoned while two other women are also being held captive: Penny and Melissa, the latter of whom has already lost her mind. Later, it's indicated Melissa has died since Steve feeds some of her meat to Noa and Noa makes no attempt to free Melissa late in the movie when she gets access to the doors.



** [[spoiler:Ann. She aids Steve, and her missing leg implies that she's a former victim. Even when she seems genuinely grateful that he's dead, she still tries to strangle Noa.]]
** [[spoiler:ZigZagged by Noa, who had genuine feelings for Steve before she found out he was really Brendan. She then pretends to be developing sincere feelings for him as she's aware of his feelings for her, but it's all a lie so she can get into a position where she can bite his penis off.]]

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** [[spoiler:Ann. She aids Steve, and her missing leg implies that she's a former victim. Even when she seems genuinely grateful that he's dead, she still tries to strangle Noa.Noa to cover up their cannibal ring.]]
** [[spoiler:ZigZagged by Noa, who had genuine feelings for Steve before she found out who he was really Brendan.was. She then pretends to be developing sincere feelings for him as she's aware of his feelings for her, but it's all a lie so she can get into a position where she can bite his penis off.]]



** Noa is a word that means "freed from taboo", and she had better be, the way she goes about saving her and her friends' lives.

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** Noa is a word that means "freed from taboo", and she had better be, the way she goes about saving her and her friends' lives.lives by playing along with Steve's cannibal obsession.



** Invoked by Paul when he tells Mollie to go to the police and tell them a white woman has gone missing.
** Defied by Mollie, who rejects the idea knowing that the evidence she has is too thin to be taken seriously by law enforcement.
** PlayedWith by the plot. Steve's surviving victims are two white women, one black woman, and one Asian woman, but his trophy wall (and his walk-in freezer) indicate that most of his victims have been white women, and the vast majority didn't survive.
* NiceToTheWaiter: Inverted with Chad, who is condescending and kind of racist to their waitress.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: What tips Mollie off is that text messages from Noa's phone don't ''feel'' like they're from Noa.

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** Invoked by Paul when he tells argues that Mollie to go to might have a chance at getting real help from the police and tell them a white woman because Noa is white. Mollie disagrees, feeling she has gone missing.
** Defied by Mollie, who rejects the idea knowing that the
too little evidence she has is too thin to be taken seriously by law enforcement.
as a black woman.
** PlayedWith by the plot. Steve's surviving victims are two white women, one black woman, and one Asian woman, but his trophy wall (and his walk-in freezer) indicate that most of his victims have been white women, and the vast majority didn't survive.
survive or get noticed in their absence.
* NiceToTheWaiter: Inverted with Chad, who is condescending and kind of racist to their waitress.
waitress as the cherry on top of the "awful date" portrait.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: What tips Mollie off is that text messages from Noa's phone don't ''feel'' like they're from Noa.Noa--notably, when she says "Love you", she doesn't get back the usual reply of "Love you more".



* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: Paul ''almost'' comes to Mollie's rescue, but decides this at the last minute.

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* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: Paul ''almost'' comes to Mollie's rescue, but decides this to leave at the last minute.minute, feeling unsure he's at the right place and being resolved against becoming a victim of the gunshots he's hearing because he's a black man.



** The ending has Steve go full [[Film/TheShining Jack Torres]].

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** The ending has Steve go full [[Film/TheShining Jack Torres]].Torrance]].
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Not to be confused with ''Film/{{Fresh}}''.

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** [[spoiler:Steve/Brendan.]]

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** [[spoiler:Steve/Brendan.[[spoiler:Brendan Steven "Steve" Kemp.]]



* IronicDeath: Not death per se, but the meat in the stinger is implied to be [[spoiler:Steve's]].

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* IronicDeath: Not death per se, but the meat in the stinger is implied to be [[spoiler:Steve's]].[[spoiler:Steve's]], and it's being eaten.



* LoveMartyr:
** [[spoiler:Ann. She aids Steve, and her missing leg implies that she's a former victim. Even when she seems genuinely grateful that he's dead, she still tries to strangle Noa.]]
** [[spoiler:ZigZagged by Noa, who had genuine feelings for Steve before she found out he was really Brendan. She then pretends to be developing sincere feelings for him as she's aware of his feelings for her, but it's all a lie so she can get into a position where she can bite his penis off.]]



* StockholmSyndrome:
** [[spoiler:Ann. She aids Steve, and her missing leg implies that she's a former victim. Even when she seems genuinely grateful that he's dead, she still tries to strangle Noa.]]
** [[spoiler:Subverted by Noa, who had genuine feelings for Steve before she found out he was really Brendan. She then pretends to be developing sincere feelings for him as she's aware of his feelings for her, but it's all a lie so she can get into a position where she can bite his penis off.]]
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** While Mollie and Noa discuss Noa's love life, they mention being "indoctrinated" about men by [[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid Ariel]] and [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast Belle]].

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** While Mollie and Noa discuss Noa's love life, they mention being "indoctrinated" about men by [[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid [[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989 Ariel]] and [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast Belle]].
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* DeadManWriting: The woman who wrote in the magazine Steve lets Noah read, though subverted in that she wastes no time announcing that she is dead, presumably because of how obvious that would be.
-->If you're reading this, it means he likes you. Use it!
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* PainInTheAss: [[spoiler: Noa has her buttocks harvested by Steve as a punishment for her first escape.]]

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* PainInTheAss: PainToTheAss: [[spoiler: Noa has her buttocks harvested by Steve as a punishment for her first escape.]]
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* PainInTheAss: [[spoiler: Noa has her buttocks harvested by Steve as a punishment for her first escape.]]
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* HollywoodSatanism: The last scene shows [[spoiler:a group of robed people eating then a {{Baphomet}} symbol is shown, implying these are Steve's clients, Satanists eating human flesh.]]
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* ArcWords:
** The exchange: "I love you." "Love you more."
** "Give me a smile."
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Okay, she says that. But the other would have been easier...


** [[spoiler:When Noa bites his testicles off, she smears something white in Steve's face. It is natural to assume that this is sperm, but a brief shot of a tube of toothpaste lying on the floor proves that assumption wrong.]]

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** [[spoiler:When Noa bites his testicles penis off, she smears something white in Steve's face. It is natural to assume that this is sperm, but a brief shot of a tube of toothpaste lying on the floor proves that assumption wrong.]]



* GroinAttack: [[spoiler:Noa pretends to go down on Steve so she can bite his testicles off. As a result, he spends maybe a minute screaming before he can follow her.]]

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* GroinAttack: [[spoiler:Noa pretends to go down on Steve so she can bite his testicles dick off. As a result, he spends maybe a minute screaming before he can follow her.]]



** Steve [[spoiler:recovers equally quickly after Noa bites off his testicles and then still manages to go outside and attack the women]].

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** Steve [[spoiler:recovers equally quickly after Noa bites off his testicles penis and then still manages to go outside and attack the women]].



** [[spoiler:Subverted by Noa, who had genuine feelings for Steve before she found out he was really Brendan. She then pretends to be developing sincere feelings for him as she's aware of his feelings for her, but it's all a lie so she can get into a position where she can bite his testicles off.]]

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** [[spoiler:Subverted by Noa, who had genuine feelings for Steve before she found out he was really Brendan. She then pretends to be developing sincere feelings for him as she's aware of his feelings for her, but it's all a lie so she can get into a position where she can bite his testicles penis off.]]

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