History Film / InTheCut

* MaleFrontalNudity: A brief shot of [[spoiler:Malloy]]'s penis can be seen in an extreme close-up as a woman performs oral sex on him.

* ChekhovsBoomerang: Early on, Frannie comes across a man in the shadows receiving a blow job and notices a 3 of Spades tattoo on his wrist. This comes back up multiple times.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Malloy takes Frannie to a secluded wooded area near the river where she practices shooting at some floating garbage bags.

%%* IntimateTelecommunications

* ChekhovsGun: The missing charm from Frannie's bracelet. [[spoiler:Actually a RedGerring.]]

* ChekhovsGun: The missing charm from Frannie's bracelet.

* DamselInDistress: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]. [[spoiler: Frannie manages to kill the murderer and "rescues" Malloy]].

* KillerCop: Frannie suspects that Malloy is the serial killer-who [[HiredToHuntYourself he's been trying to catch]]. She even outright asks him multiple times. [[spoiler:It isn't him, but his partner Richard Rodriguez.]]

* MaleFrontalNudity: A brief shot of [[spoiler:Richard Rodriguez]]'s penis can be seen in an extreme close-up as a woman performs oral sex on him.

* SexyDiscretionShot: Just as Malloy starts to perform cunnilingus on Frannie, the scene cuts away to the two of them laying in bed post-coitus.

* WritersAreWriters: Frannie is a creative writing teacher who is also working on a book about slang, which she consults her student Cornelius on. A wall of her apartment is covered in paper notes of spoken language she hears on the street and poetry that intrigues her.

** ChekhovsBoomerang: Early on, Frannie comes across a man in the shadows receiving a blow job and notices a 3 of Spades tattoo on his wrist. This comes back up multiple times.

* {{Fanservice}}:
** Frannie receiving oral sex from Malloy the first time they sleep together.
** Malloy receiving a blowjob from a mystery woman in total darkness in a bar.

* LaughterOfLove: Frannie immediately goes from crying to laughing after having sex with Malloy.

* MaleFrontalNudity: Mark Ruffalo. A brief of Malloy's penis can be seen in an extreme close-up as a woman performs oral sex on him.

* OffWithHisHead: Part of the killer's MO. [[spoiler:Poor Pauline winds up a victim of this in the end.]]

* SexyDiscretionShot: Just as Malloy is about to perform cunnilingus on Frannie, the scene cuts away to the two of them laying in bed post-coitus.

* FanDisservice: Frannie handcuffing Malloy to something, straddling him in a chair, dry-humping him fully clothed and then bursting into tears because the act just confirms that she is obsessed with him.

%%* MaleFrontalNudity: Mark Ruffalo.

* IntimateTelecommunications

* MaleFrontalNudity: Mark Ruffalo.

-->-- '''Angelica Jade Bastién'''

* MonochromePast: Frannie's dream sequences that supposedly show how her parents met and fell in love, ice skating on a pond with snow falling around them. The sepia tones emphasizes how much Frannie idealizes her parents' [[MeetCute meet-cute]]. [[spoiler: It is later revealed that Frannie's father left another woman for her mother, using the ring he was going to give to the other woman to propose to her. After marrying Frannie's mom, he would eventually leave ''her'' for another woman, going on to marry three other times (Pauline's mother not among them)]].

* VisualTitleDrop: As a sepia-toned scene plays of people ice-skating on a pond, the film’s title fades in just as a man makes a sharp turn on the ice with the blade of his skate.

The film received a polarizing response from critics and audiences when it was released. In the years since, ''In the Cut'' has been reassessed as a feminist erotic thriller and praised for its subversions of common thriller tropes.

* DeliberatelyMonochrome: Frannie's dream sequences that supposedly show how her parents met and fell in love, ice skating on a pond with snow falling around them. The monochrome color emphasizes how much Frannie idealizes her parents' [[MeetCute meet-cute]]. [[spoiler: It is later revealed that Frannie's father left another woman for her mother, using the ring he was going to give to the other woman to propose to her]].

* StrawMisogynist: Detective Rodriguez, Malloy's partner.

* PlayingAgainstType: Meg Ryan was mostly known for starring in romantic comedies prior to this film. Her role here very much veers from her "America’s sweetheart" image.

* StalkerWithACruah: John Graham (the character played by Kevin Bacon) is an ex-boyfriend of Frannie’s who stalks her.

* StalkingIsLove: John Graham (the character played by Kevin Bacon), appears to believe this.

* IronicEcho: Frannie is a English professor who is lecturing about the Virginia Woolf book ''To the Lighthouse'' to her class. [[spoiler: Later, she is taken to where the killer murders his victims, The Little Red Lighthouse below the George Washington Bridge]].

* ThePeepingTom: Gender inverted as Frannie observes the anonymous man receiving a blowjob for a beat too long.

** ChekhovsBoomerang: Early on, Frannie comes across a man in the shadows recieving a blowjob and notices a 3 of Spades tattoo on his wrist. This comes back up multiple times.

* Foreshadowing: Malloy takes Frannie to

* RedHerring: Both [[spoiler:John Graham and Cornelius are suggested by the film as potential culprits behind the killings. While the former is clearly disturbed and the latter is outright shown to be dangerous, neither turn out to be the how strangler.]] And of course, [[spoiler:Detective Malloy winds up being this in the end as well.]]

* WhamShot: [[spoiler:The reveal that Rodriguez has the same tattoo as Malloy.]]

''In the Cut'' is a 2003 erotic [[FilmNoir neo-noir]] directed by Creator/JaneCampion and starring Creator/MegRyan, Creator/MarkRuffalo, Creator/JenniferJasonLeigh, Nick Damici, Sharrieff Pugh, and Creator/KevinBacon. It is [[TheFilmOfTheBook based on the 1995 novel]] of the same name by Susanna Moore. Ryan plays Frannie Avery, a woman who becomes entangled with a detective investigating a series of grisly murders in her [[UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity Manhattan]] neighborhood.

* SanitySlippage: As Frannie gets closer to Malloy, she increasingly becomes suspicious of not only the detective, but also the men she interacts with.

* PeepingTom: Gender inverted as Frannie observes the anonymous man receiving a blowjob for a beat too long.

''In the Cut'' is a 2003 erotic neo-noir directed by Creator/JaneCampion and starring Creator/MegRyan, Creator/MarkRuffalo, Creator/JenniferJasonLeigh, Nick Damici, Sharrieff Pugh, and Creator/KevinBacon. Ryan plays a woman who becomes sexually involved with a detective investigating a series of grisly murders in her neighborhood.

* RedHerring: Both [[spoiler:John Graham and Cornelius are suggested by the film as potential culprits behind the killings. While the former is clearly disturbed and the latter is outright shown to be dangerous, neither turn out to be the strangler.]] And of course, [[spoiler:Detective Malloy winds up being this in the end as well.]]

''In the Cut'' is a 2003 erotic neo-noir directed by Jane Campion and starring Creator/MegRyan, Creator/MarkRuffalo, Creator/JenniferJasonLeigh, Nick Damici, Sharrieff Pugh, and Creator/KevinBacon. Ryan plays a woman who becomes sexually involved with a detective investigating a series of grisly murders in her neighborhood.