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The film has two starting points. Both starting as a DownerBeginning and life going downhill from there. In the narrative starting point, the story starts with Seligman finds Joe beaten and bleeding in an alley. In the chronological starting point, the story starts with Joe levitating up in the air as she receives a vision from the Whore of Babylon herself. This demonic possession turns Joe's sexuality self-destructive as well as harmful to others. However, it is up to the audience to decide whether the demonic possession is [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane literal (supernatural), delusional (mental illness) or metaphorical]]... Or simply [[UnreliableNarrator Joe trying to mess with Seligman's head]].
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The film has two starting points. Both points, both starting as a DownerBeginning and life going downhill from there. In the narrative starting point, the story starts with Seligman finds Joe beaten and bleeding in an alley. In the chronological starting point, the story starts with Joe levitating up in the air as she receives a vision from the Whore of Babylon herself. This demonic possession turns Joe's sexuality self-destructive as well as harmful to others. However, it is up to the audience to decide whether the demonic possession is [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane literal (supernatural), delusional (mental illness) or metaphorical]]... Or simply [[UnreliableNarrator Joe trying to mess with Seligman's head]].
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* BlackIsBiggerInBed: Averted. Joe goes as far as finding an interpreter so she could have sex with an African immigrant who doesn't speak a word of English. However, she doesn't do this because of the man's supposed penis size but because she finds the thought of not being able to communicate with her sex partner enticing.
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* BlackIsBiggerInBed: Averted. {{Averted}}. Joe goes as far as finding an interpreter so she could can have sex with an African immigrant who doesn't speak a word of English. However, she doesn't do this because of the man's supposed penis size but because she finds the thought of not being able to communicate with her sex partner enticing.
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* ContrivedCoincidence: Joe's third meeting with Jerôme -- finding torn photographs from his ex-lover whilst on a walk, stumbling upon him and being lifted up onto a bridge by him -- sounds way too contrived for Seligman's ears. Joe claims the story is authentic.
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* ContrivedCoincidence: Joe's third meeting with Jerôme -- finding Jerôme-finding torn photographs from his ex-lover whilst on a walk, stumbling upon him and being lifted up onto a bridge by him -- sounds him-sounds way too contrived for Seligman's ears. Joe claims the story is authentic.
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* DoubleStandard: Seligman tells Joe that if she were male, it would have been considered normal; but as a woman, she took on self-inflicted shame and guilt.
** DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: When [[spoiler: Seligman tries to force himself onto Joe, she rightfully defends herself by shooting him.]] However, in the first half of the movie, Joe rapes a man on the train despite repeated protests and refusals from him, an act which neither she nor Seligman have much of a problem with.
** DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: When [[spoiler: Seligman tries to force himself onto Joe, she rightfully defends herself by shooting him.]] However, in the first half of the movie, Joe rapes a man on the train despite repeated protests and refusals from him, an act which neither she nor Seligman have much of a problem with.
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* DoubleStandard: Seligman tells Joe that if she were male, it would have been considered normal; normal, but as a woman, she took on self-inflicted shame and guilt.
** DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: When [[spoiler: Seligman tries to force himself onto Joe, she rightfully defends herself by shooting him.]] However, in the first half of the movie, Joe rapes a man on the train despite repeated protests and refusals from him, an act which neithershe nor Seligman have much of a problem with.calls rape (although Joe says it was wrong)-Seligman, meanwhile, defends it.
** DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: When [[spoiler: Seligman tries to force himself onto Joe, she rightfully defends herself by shooting him.]] However, in the first half of the movie, Joe rapes a man on the train despite repeated protests and refusals from him, an act which neither
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* FlatEarthAtheist OR OutgrownSuchSillySuperstitions: Neither Joe nor Seligman believes in higher powers or any other supernatural forces. This may be reasonable or not, [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane depending on how certain key scenes are interpreted]].
* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Invoked, as Joe's old friend finds Love and thus defects from their satanic cult.
* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Invoked, as Joe's old friend finds Love and thus defects from their satanic cult.
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* FlatEarthAtheist OR OutgrownSuchSillySuperstitions: Neither Joe nor Seligman believes believe in higher powers or any other supernatural forces. This may be reasonable or not, [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane depending on how certain key scenes are interpreted]].
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* InfantImmortality: Marcel, the 3-year-old boy of Joe and [[spoiler: Jerôme]], wakes up alone and climbs on the balcony in a similar fashion as Nick in ''Film/{{Antichrist}}''. [[spoiler:This time, however, someone gets there in time to prevent the kid from falling to his death]].
* InternalizedCategorism: Seligman suggests this as an explanation for why Joe's life has been so shitty - that she has internalized our culture's misogyny and hatred of sexuality.
* InternalizedCategorism: Seligman suggests this as an explanation for why Joe's life has been so shitty - that she has internalized our culture's misogyny and hatred of sexuality.
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* InfantImmortality: Marcel, the 3-year-old boy son of Joe and [[spoiler: Jerôme]], wakes up alone and climbs on the balcony in a similar fashion as Nick in ''Film/{{Antichrist}}''. [[spoiler:This time, however, someone gets there in time to prevent the kid from falling to his death]].
* InternalizedCategorism: Seligman suggests this as an explanation for why Joe's life has been soshitty - that shitty-that she has internalized our culture's misogyny and hatred of sexuality.
* InternalizedCategorism: Seligman suggests this as an explanation for why Joe's life has been so
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* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: The organ music expertly used by Joe to describe the harmony of three lovers she once had, which plays in her flashback on a tape machine, abruptly stops playing when the cassette it's coming from runs out of tape –– at the same time that she releases [[spoiler: that sex doesn't give her any kind of pleasure anymore.]]
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* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: The organ music expertly used by Joe to describe the harmony of three lovers she once had, which plays in her flashback on a tape machine, abruptly stops playing when the cassette it's coming from runs out of tape –– at tape-at the same time that she releases realizes [[spoiler: that sex doesn't give her any kind of pleasure anymore.]]
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Joe is possessed by The Whore Of Babylon (but maybe it was only an epileptic seizure after all). She later grows to lead a gang to fight against Love, because love only leads to jealousy... (or maybe this gang was an actual Satanic Cult after all).
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Joe is possessed by The Whore Of Babylon (but maybe it was only an epileptic seizure after all). She later grows to lead a gang to fight against Love, because love only leads to jealousy... (or maybe this gang was an actual Satanic Cult satanic cult after all).
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* ParentalNeglect: Joe's quest for the lost orgasm leads her to leave her 3-year-old boy, Marcel, alone at home. [[spoiler:This almost ends up Marcel dying in a similar fashion as Nick in ''Film/{{Antichrist}}'' by falling off the balcony]].
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* ParentalNeglect: Joe's quest for the lost orgasm leads her to leave her 3-year-old boy, Marcel, alone at home. [[spoiler:This almost ends up with Marcel dying in a similar fashion as to Nick in ''Film/{{Antichrist}}'' ''Film/{{Antichrist}}'', by falling off the balcony]].
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* ReallyGetsAround: Being a movie about someone who's addicted to sex this is pretty much a given. In the end this trope is played in a rather dark way though, when [[spoiler:Seligman tries to rape Joe using her nymphomania as an excuse]].
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* ReallyGetsAround: Being a movie about someone who's addicted to sex this is pretty much a given. In the end this trope is played in a rather dark way though, when [[spoiler:Seligman tries to rape Joe Joe, using her nymphomania as an excuse]].
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* ShoutOut: The beginning of Joe's hallunication of the Whore of Babylon echoes part of She's meditation in von Trier's earlier film ''{{Film/Antichrist}}''.
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* ShoutOut: The beginning of Joe's hallunication [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane hallucination/vision]] of the Whore of Babylon echoes part of She's meditation in von Trier's earlier film ''{{Film/Antichrist}}''.
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* TheSociopath: Joe-the-protagonist is portrayed this way by her narrator self, with quite a bit of focus on how she don't care at all about the lives she wrecks.
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* TheSociopath: Joe-the-protagonist is portrayed this way by her narrator self, with quite a bit of focus on how she don't doesn't care at all about the lives she wrecks.
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* SympathyForTheDevil: Joe sympathizes with a pedophile, because she sees him as a sexual deviant like herself, only she pities him because he can't act upon his fetishes -- which she defends as being saintly, compared to the pedophiles who act upon their urges. She ends up giving the guy a blow job.
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* SympathyForTheDevil: Joe sympathizes with a pedophile, because she sees him as a sexual deviant like herself, only she pities him because he can't legally act upon his fetishes -- which fetishes-which she defends as being saintly, compared to the pedophiles who ''do'' act upon their urges. She ends up giving the guy a blow job.
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* WhatTheHellHero: Seligman has this reaction when Joe tells him he sucked off a pedophile directly aftering blackmailing him for it.
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* WhatTheHellHero: Seligman has this reaction when Joe tells him he she sucked off a pedophile directly aftering after blackmailing him for it.
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** DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: When [[spoiler: Seligman tries to force himself onto Joe, she rightfully defends herself by shooting him.]] However, in the first half of the movie, Joe rapes a man on the train despite repeated protests and refusals from him, an act which neither she nor Seligman has much of a problem with.
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** DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: When [[spoiler: Seligman tries to force himself onto Joe, she rightfully defends herself by shooting him.]] However, in the first half of the movie, Joe rapes a man on the train despite repeated protests and refusals from him, an act which neither she nor Seligman has have much of a problem with.
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** DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: When [[spoiler: Seligman tries to force himself onto Joe, she rightfully defends herself by shooting him.]] However, in the first half of the movie, she rapes a man on the train despite repeated protests and refusals from him, an act which neither she nor Seligman has much of a problem with.
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** DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: When [[spoiler: Seligman tries to force himself onto Joe, she rightfully defends herself by shooting him.]] However, in the first half of the movie, she Joe rapes a man on the train despite repeated protests and refusals from him, an act which neither she nor Seligman has much of a problem with.
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* OneSteveLimit: Averted. In Volume I, Joe's mother is Katherine, whom her father shortens to K, and who is referred to as such for the remainder of her screen time. In Volume II, K a male sadomasochist whom Joe sees, much to the alienation of her family, is also named K.
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* OneSteveLimit: Averted. In Volume I, Joe's mother is Katherine, whom her father shortens to K, and who is referred to as such for the remainder of her screen time. In Volume II, K a male sadomasochist whom Joe sees, much to the alienation of her family, is also named K.
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* TheWoobie: Joe. Especially after [[spoiler: her nymphomania takes away the normal family life she once had.]]
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* BondageIsBad: BDSM will make a woman find her lost sexuality, but also obsess over her master so that she neglects her child and leaves her husband.
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* BondageIsBad: BDSM will make a woman find her lost sexuality, but also obsess over her master so that she neglects her child and leaves her husband. husband.
* BookEnds: The film opens and closes with over a full minute of black screen, with only sound effects.
* CallBack: [[spoiler: Jerôme penetrates P in the exact manner that he penetrated Joe at the start of the film: 3 vaginal thrusts, 5 anal thrusts.]]
* ContrivedCoincidence: Joe's third meeting with Jerôme -- finding torn photographs from his ex-lover whilst on a walk, stumbling upon him and being lifted up onto a bridge by him -- sounds way too contrived for Seligman's ears. Joe claims the story is authentic.
* ChekhovsSkill: Joe uses the rope techniques K taught her to torture people for the mob.
* BookEnds: The film opens and closes with over a full minute of black screen, with only sound effects.
* CallBack: [[spoiler: Jerôme penetrates P in the exact manner that he penetrated Joe at the start of the film: 3 vaginal thrusts, 5 anal thrusts.]]
* ContrivedCoincidence: Joe's third meeting with Jerôme -- finding torn photographs from his ex-lover whilst on a walk, stumbling upon him and being lifted up onto a bridge by him -- sounds way too contrived for Seligman's ears. Joe claims the story is authentic.
* ChekhovsSkill: Joe uses the rope techniques K taught her to torture people for the mob.
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* DownerBeginning: The film starts with Seligman finds Joe beaten and bleeding in an alley.
* DownerEnding: After a long life of cold and shallow sex, Joe finally find a true friend in the asexual virgin Seligman. [[spoiler:Then he tries to rape her, and she kills him.]]
* DownerEnding: After a long life of cold and shallow sex, Joe finally find a true friend in the asexual virgin Seligman. [[spoiler:Then he tries to rape her, and she kills him.]]
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* DoubleStandard: Seligman tells Joe that if she were male, it would have been considered normal; but as a woman, she took on self-inflicted shame and guilt.
* DownerBeginning: The film starts with Seligmanfinds finding Joe beaten and bleeding in an alley.
* DownerEnding: After a long life of cold and shallow sex, Joe finallyfind finds a true friend in the asexual virgin Seligman. [[spoiler:Then he tries to rape her, and she kills him.]]]]
* ExtremelyShortTimespan: The entirety of Joe and Seligman's conversation takes place over the course of one night.
* FanDisservice: Halfway through the film, the sex will look like it's straight out of a textbook. Come Volume II, it grows more and more disturbing. When it finally comes to the [[MaleGaze lesbian sex scene]], Joe ''starts crying''.
* DownerBeginning: The film starts with Seligman
* DownerEnding: After a long life of cold and shallow sex, Joe finally
* ExtremelyShortTimespan: The entirety of Joe and Seligman's conversation takes place over the course of one night.
* FanDisservice: Halfway through the film, the sex will look like it's straight out of a textbook. Come Volume II, it grows more and more disturbing. When it finally comes to the [[MaleGaze lesbian sex scene]], Joe ''starts crying''.
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* InfantImmortality: Marcel, the 3-year-old boy of Joe and Jerôme, wakes up alone and climbs on the balcony in a similar fashion as Nick in ''Film/{{Antichrist}}''. [[spoiler:This time, however, someone gets there in time to prevent the kid from falling to his death]].
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* GoryDiscretionShot: [[spoiler: The screen turns black as Joe shoots Seligman.]]
* HowWeGotHere: The story Joe tells Seligman ends with how she wound up beaten in an alley.
* InfantImmortality: Marcel, the 3-year-old boy of Joe andJerôme, [[spoiler: Jerôme]], wakes up alone and climbs on the balcony in a similar fashion as Nick in ''Film/{{Antichrist}}''. [[spoiler:This time, however, someone gets there in time to prevent the kid from falling to his death]].
* HowWeGotHere: The story Joe tells Seligman ends with how she wound up beaten in an alley.
* InfantImmortality: Marcel, the 3-year-old boy of Joe and
* IronicEcho: Joe nearly repeats K's line about screaming ''after'' being hit word for word while preparing to beat someone maliciously.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: "Are you ready for the next chapter?" [chapter screen appears]
* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: The organ music expertly used by Joe to describe the harmony of three lovers she once had, which plays in her flashback on a tape machine, abruptly stops playing when the cassette it's coming from runs out of tape –– at the same time that she releases [[spoiler: that sex doesn't give her any kind of pleasure anymore.]]
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: "Are you ready for the next chapter?" [chapter screen appears]
* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: The organ music expertly used by Joe to describe the harmony of three lovers she once had, which plays in her flashback on a tape machine, abruptly stops playing when the cassette it's coming from runs out of tape –– at the same time that she releases [[spoiler: that sex doesn't give her any kind of pleasure anymore.]]
* OneDialogueTwoConversations: Joe has sex with four men, and tells each one that "something that means a lot to [her]" has happened: that they have provided her her first orgasm. Each guy's reply is shown in a montage.
* OneSteveLimit: Averted. In Volume I, Joe's mother is Katherine, whom her father shortens to K, and who is referred to as such for the remainder of her screen time. In Volume II, K a male sadomasochist whom Joe sees, much to the alienation of her family, is also named K.
* OneSteveLimit: Averted. In Volume I, Joe's mother is Katherine, whom her father shortens to K, and who is referred to as such for the remainder of her screen time. In Volume II, K a male sadomasochist whom Joe sees, much to the alienation of her family, is also named K.
* RealityEnsues: All the damage Joe has done to her vagina through years of continuous sexual intercourse starts to haunt her by the film's end.
* ShoutOut: The beginning of Joe's hallunication of the Whore of Babylon echoes part of She's meditation in von Trier's earlier film ''{{Film/Antichrist}}''.
** The scene with Joe's child Marcel mirrors the opening of ''{{Film/Antichrist}}'' as well.
** The scene with Joe's child Marcel mirrors the opening of ''{{Film/Antichrist}}'' as well.
* SplitScreen: Cleverly used when Joe compares three lovers to the three-voice harmony of a church organ. Each third of a screen is used for a different partner, and as she introduces each person, the film fills another third of the screen with sex.
* SympathyForTheDevil: Joe sympathizes with a pedophile, because she sees him as a sexual deviant like herself, only she pities him because he can't act upon his fetishes -- which she defends as being saintly, compared to the pedophiles who act upon their urges. She ends up giving the guy a blow job.
* SympathyForTheDevil: Joe sympathizes with a pedophile, because she sees him as a sexual deviant like herself, only she pities him because he can't act upon his fetishes -- which she defends as being saintly, compared to the pedophiles who act upon their urges. She ends up giving the guy a blow job.
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* UnreliableNarrator: Seligman sometimes calls out Joe on her bullshit, but perhaps not often enough. Her story gives an accurate portrayal of her state of mind, but perhaps less so of her life.
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* UnreliableNarrator: Seligman sometimes calls out Joe on her bullshit, but perhaps not often enough. Her story gives an accurate portrayal of her state of mind, but perhaps less so of her life.life.
* WhatTheHellHero: Seligman has this reaction when Joe tells him he sucked off a pedophile directly aftering blackmailing him for it.
* TheWoobie: Joe. Especially after [[spoiler: her nymphomania takes away the normal family life she once had.]]
* YouRemindMeOfX: Seligman finds parallels with Joe's story in nature and the arts; these parallels remind Joe of other parts of her story.
* WhatTheHellHero: Seligman has this reaction when Joe tells him he sucked off a pedophile directly aftering blackmailing him for it.
* TheWoobie: Joe. Especially after [[spoiler: her nymphomania takes away the normal family life she once had.]]
* YouRemindMeOfX: Seligman finds parallels with Joe's story in nature and the arts; these parallels remind Joe of other parts of her story.
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The film has two starting points. Both starting as a DownerBeginning and life going downhill from there. In the narrative starting point, the story starts with Seligman finds Joe beaten and bleeding in an alley. In the chronological starting point, the story starts with Joe levitating up in the air as she receives a vision from the Whore of Babylon herself.
This demonic possession turns Joe's sexuality self-destructive as well as harmful to others. However, it is up to the audience to decide whether the demonic possession is [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane literal (supernatural), delusional (mental illness) or metaphorical]]... Or simply [[UnreliableNarrator Joe trying to mess with Seligman's head]].
This demonic possession turns Joe's sexuality self-destructive as well as harmful to others. However, it is up to the audience to decide whether the demonic possession is [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane literal (supernatural), delusional (mental illness) or metaphorical]]... Or simply [[UnreliableNarrator Joe trying to mess with Seligman's head]].
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The film has two starting points. Both starting as a DownerBeginning and life going downhill from there. In the narrative starting point, the story starts with Seligman finds Joe beaten and bleeding in an alley. In the chronological starting point, the story starts with Joe levitating up in the air as she receives a vision from the Whore of Babylon herself. \n\n This demonic possession turns Joe's sexuality self-destructive as well as harmful to others. However, it is up to the audience to decide whether the demonic possession is [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane literal (supernatural), delusional (mental illness) or metaphorical]]... Or simply [[UnreliableNarrator Joe trying to mess with Seligman's head]].
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''Nymphomaniac'' came out of the editing room at five-and-a-half hours in running length. [[ExecutiveMeddling The studio worked with the film editors]] to cut the film down to four hours, and released it as two two-hour movies, two weeks apart. One of the producers said that the 90 minutes of additional footage will eventually be released by von Trier. While no plans for that release have been detailed, an unedited Volume I was screened at the Berlin Film Festival in February of 2014.
''Nymphomaniac'' came out of the editing room at five-and-a-half hours in running length. [[ExecutiveMeddling The studio worked with the film editors]] to cut the film down to four hours, and released it as two two-hour movies, two weeks apart. One of the producers said that the 90 minutes of additional footage will eventually be released by von Trier. While no plans for that release have been detailed, an unedited Volume I was screened at the Berlin Film Festival in February of 2014.
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* {{Asexuality}}: Seligman claims this, and he and Joe have a refreshingly open and respectful conversation about it. Unfortunately, [[spoiler:it is somewhat undermined by the ending, in which he attempts to rape her]].
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* ThematicSeries: Part of the "Depression" Trilogy (after ''[[Film/{{Antichrist}} Antichrist]]'' and ''[[Film/{{Melancholia}} Melancholia]])'', which focuses on sexuality and depression.
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Being the third movie in [[Creator/LarsVonTrier Lars Von Trier's]] ''Depression'' "Depression" Trilogy (after ''[[Film/{{Antichrist}} Antichrist]]'' and ''[[Film/{{Melancholia}} Melancholia]])'', the 2014 film ''Nymphomaniac'' is a bleak story of utter emotional misery. [[TrueArtIsAngsty So what else is new,]] [[SignatureStyle right?]]
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Being the third movie in [[Creator/LarsVonTrier Lars Von Trier's]] ''Depression'' trilogy (after "[[Film/{{Antichrist}} ''[[Film/{{Antichrist}} Antichrist]]'' and ''[[Film/{{Melancholia}} Melancholia]])'', the 2014 film "Nymphomaniac" is a bleak story of utter emotional misery. [[TrueArtIsAngsty So what else is new,]] [[SignatureStyle right?]]
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Being the third movie in [[Creator/LarsVonTrier Lars Von Trier's]] ''Depression'' trilogy (after "[[Film/{{Antichrist}} Antichrist]]" Antichrist]]'' and "[[Film/{{Melancholia}} Melancholia]]"), ''[[Film/{{Melancholia}} Melancholia]])'', the 2014 film "Nymphomaniac" is a bleak story of utter emotional misery. [[TrueArtIsAngsty So what else is new,]] [[SignatureStyle right?]]
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* InfantImmortality: Marcel, the 3-year-old of Joe and Jerôme, wakes up alone and climbs on the balcony in a similar fashion as Nick in ''Film/{{Antichrist}}''. [[spoiler:This time, however, someone gets there in time to prevent the kid from falling to his death]].
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* InfantImmortality: Marcel, the 3-year-old boy of Joe and Jerôme, wakes up alone and climbs on the balcony in a similar fashion as Nick in ''Film/{{Antichrist}}''. [[spoiler:This time, however, someone gets there in time to prevent the kid from falling to his death]].
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* InfantImmortality: Marcel, the 3-year-old of Joe and Jerôme, wakes up alone and climbs on the balcony in a similar fashion as the child Nick in ''Film/{{Antichrist}}''. [[spoiler:This time, however, someone gets there in time to prevent the kid from falling to his death]].
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* ParentalNeglect: Joe's quest for the lost orgasm leads her to leave her 3-year-old boy, Marcel, alone at home. [[spoiler:This almost ends up Marcel dying in a similar fashion as the child in ''Film/{{Antichrist}}'' by falling off the balcony]].
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* ParentalNeglect: Joe's quest for the lost orgasm leads her to leave her 3-year-old boy, Marcel, alone at home. [[spoiler:This almost ends up Marcel dying in a similar fashion as the child Nick in ''Film/{{Antichrist}}'' by falling off the balcony]].
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* ParentalNeglect: Joe's quest for the lost orgasm leads her to leave her 3-year-old boy, Marcel, alone at home. [[spoiler:This almost ends up Marcel dying in a similar fashion as the child in ''Film/{{Antichrist}}'' by falling off the balcony]].
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* ReallyGetsAround: Being a movie about someone who's addicted to sex this is pretty much a given. In the end this trope is played in a rather dark way though, when [[spoiler:Seligman tries to rape Joe using her nymphomania as an excuse].
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* ReallyGetsAround: Being a movie about someone who's addicted to sex this is pretty much a given. In the end this trope is played in a rather dark way though, when [[spoiler:Seligman tries to rape Joe using her nymphomania as an excuse].excuse]].
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* PsychoLesbian: The film's only same-sex relationship is female and quickly turns into a potentially homicidal flavor of this trope.
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* PsychoLesbian: The film's only same-sex relationship is female and quickly turns into a potentially homicidal flavor of this trope. trope.
* ReallyGetsAround: Being a movie about someone who's addicted to sex this is pretty much a given. In the end this trope is played in a rather dark way though, when [[spoiler:Seligman tries to rape Joe using her nymphomania as an excuse].
* ReallyGetsAround: Being a movie about someone who's addicted to sex this is pretty much a given. In the end this trope is played in a rather dark way though, when [[spoiler:Seligman tries to rape Joe using her nymphomania as an excuse].
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* BlackIsBiggerInBed: Averted. Joe goes as far as finding an interpreter so she could have sex with an African immigrant who doesn't speak a word of English. However, she doesn't do this because of the man's supposed penis size but because she finds the thought of not being able to communicate with her sex partner enticing.
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Being the third movie in [[Creator/LarsVonTrier Lars Von Trier's]] ''Depression'' trilogy (after "[[Film/{{Antichrist}} Antichrist]]" and "[[Film/{{Melancholia}} Melancholia]]"), the 2014 film "Nymphomaniac" is a bleak story of utter emotional misery.
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Being the third movie in [[Creator/LarsVonTrier Lars Von Trier's]] ''Depression'' trilogy (after "[[Film/{{Antichrist}} Antichrist]]" and "[[Film/{{Melancholia}} Melancholia]]"), the 2014 film "Nymphomaniac" is a bleak story of utter emotional misery. \n [[TrueArtIsAngsty So what else is new,]] [[SignatureStyle right?]]
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Being the third movie in [[Creator/LarsVonTrier Lars Von Trier's]] ''depression'' trilogy (after "[[Film/{{Antichrist}} Antichrist]]" and "[[Film/{{Melancholia}} Melancholia]]", the 2014 film "Nymphomaniac" is a bleak story of utter emotional misery.
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Being the third movie in [[Creator/LarsVonTrier Lars Von Trier's]] ''depression'' ''Depression'' trilogy (after "[[Film/{{Antichrist}} Antichrist]]" and "[[Film/{{Melancholia}} Melancholia]]", Melancholia]]"), the 2014 film "Nymphomaniac" is a bleak story of utter emotional misery.
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* DownerBeginning: The film starts with Seligman finds Joe beaten and bleeding in an alley. [[spoiler:Actually, the film starts with Joe murdering Seligman, but that can only be pieced together after seeing the DownerEnding as well.]]
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* DownerBeginning: The film starts with Seligman finds Joe beaten and bleeding in an alley. [[spoiler:Actually, the film starts with Joe murdering Seligman, but that can only be pieced together after seeing the DownerEnding as well.]]
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* SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny: Everyone. [[spoiler:Yes, even the supposedly asexual Seligman.]]
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* SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny: Everyone. [[spoiler:Yes, Joe and the others base their sexuality on disregard for themselves and others, not really caring who gets hurt. [[spoiler:This even includes the supposedly asexual Seligman.Seligman, who verbally gives justification to some of her more inconsiderate actions... And eventually tries to rape her.]]
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* Dominatrix: A male example, with lots and lots of female clients.
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* Dominatrix: {{Dominatrix}}: A male example, with lots and lots of female clients.
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Being the third movie in [[Creator/LarsVonTrier Lars Von Trier's]] ''depression'' trilogy (after "[[Film/{{Antichrist}} Antichrist]]" and "[[Film/{{Melancholia}} Melancholia]]", the 2014 film "Nymphomaniac" is a bleak story of utter emotional misery.
As a woman named "Joe" tells the story of her life, the film can be said to have three main characters: Joe-the-protagonist, Joe-the-narrator, and Seligman-the-audience. While Joe and Joe are the same person, Joe-the-narrator hates Joe-the-protagonist with a passion. There are also several side characters, but most of them don't even have names.
The film has two starting points. Both starting as a DownerBeginning and life going downhill from there. In the narrative starting point, the story starts with Seligman finds Joe beaten and bleeding in an alley. In the chronological starting point, the story starts with Joe levitating up in the air as she receives a vision from the Whore of Babylon herself.
This demonic possession turns Joe's sexuality self-destructive as well as harmful to others. However, it is up to the audience to decide whether the demonic possession is [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane literal (supernatural), delusional (mental illness) or metaphorical]]... Or simply [[UnreliableNarrator Joe trying to mess with Seligman's head]].
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* AllGaysArePedophiles: The only male homosexual in the movie is also a pedophile.
* BondageIsBad: BDSM will make a woman find her lost sexuality, but also obsess over her master so that she neglects her child and leaves her husband.
* DepravedHomosexual: The only male homosexual in the movie is also a pedophile, while the film's only same-sex relationship is female and quickly turns into a potentially homicidal flavor of PsychoLesbian.
* Dominatrix: A male example, with lots and lots of female clients.
* DownerBeginning: The film starts with Seligman finds Joe beaten and bleeding in an alley. [[spoiler:Actually, the film starts with Joe murdering Seligman, but that can only be pieced together after seeing the DownerEnding as well.]]
* DownerEnding: After a long life of cold and shallow sex, Joe finally find a true friend in the asexual virgin Seligman. [[spoiler:Then he tries to rape her, and she kills him.]]
* FlatEarthAtheist OR OutgrownSuchSillySuperstitions: Neither Joe nor Seligman believes in higher powers or any other supernatural forces. This may be reasonable or not, [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane depending on how certain key scenes are interpreted]].
* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Invoked, as Joe's old friend finds Love and thus defects from their satanic cult.
* InternalizedCategorism: Seligman suggests this as an explanation for why Joe's life has been so shitty - that she has internalized our culture's misogyny and hatred of sexuality.
* LoveRedeems: Several female characters seem to get redeemed by finding love with a man. [[spoiler:However, the redemption remains unconfirmed in two cases, and eventually brutally averted in two others.]]
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Joe is possessed by The Whore Of Babylon (but maybe it was only an epileptic seizure after all). She later grows to lead a gang to fight against Love, because love only leads to jealousy... (or maybe this gang was an actual Satanic Cult after all).
* PsychoLesbian: The film's only same-sex relationship is female and quickly turns into a potentially homicidal flavor of this trope.
* SexIsEvil: While the film portrays sex that isn't based on love as being self-destructive, Joe claims that love is even worse.
* SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny: Everyone. [[spoiler:Yes, even the supposedly asexual Seligman.]]
* TheSociopath: Joe-the-protagonist is portrayed this way by her narrator self, with quite a bit of focus on how she don't care at all about the lives she wrecks.
* UnreliableNarrator: Seligman sometimes calls out Joe on her bullshit, but perhaps not often enough. Her story gives an accurate portrayal of her state of mind, but perhaps less so of her life.
As a woman named "Joe" tells the story of her life, the film can be said to have three main characters: Joe-the-protagonist, Joe-the-narrator, and Seligman-the-audience. While Joe and Joe are the same person, Joe-the-narrator hates Joe-the-protagonist with a passion. There are also several side characters, but most of them don't even have names.
The film has two starting points. Both starting as a DownerBeginning and life going downhill from there. In the narrative starting point, the story starts with Seligman finds Joe beaten and bleeding in an alley. In the chronological starting point, the story starts with Joe levitating up in the air as she receives a vision from the Whore of Babylon herself.
This demonic possession turns Joe's sexuality self-destructive as well as harmful to others. However, it is up to the audience to decide whether the demonic possession is [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane literal (supernatural), delusional (mental illness) or metaphorical]]... Or simply [[UnreliableNarrator Joe trying to mess with Seligman's head]].
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* AllGaysArePedophiles: The only male homosexual in the movie is also a pedophile.
* BondageIsBad: BDSM will make a woman find her lost sexuality, but also obsess over her master so that she neglects her child and leaves her husband.
* DepravedHomosexual: The only male homosexual in the movie is also a pedophile, while the film's only same-sex relationship is female and quickly turns into a potentially homicidal flavor of PsychoLesbian.
* Dominatrix: A male example, with lots and lots of female clients.
* DownerBeginning: The film starts with Seligman finds Joe beaten and bleeding in an alley. [[spoiler:Actually, the film starts with Joe murdering Seligman, but that can only be pieced together after seeing the DownerEnding as well.]]
* DownerEnding: After a long life of cold and shallow sex, Joe finally find a true friend in the asexual virgin Seligman. [[spoiler:Then he tries to rape her, and she kills him.]]
* FlatEarthAtheist OR OutgrownSuchSillySuperstitions: Neither Joe nor Seligman believes in higher powers or any other supernatural forces. This may be reasonable or not, [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane depending on how certain key scenes are interpreted]].
* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Invoked, as Joe's old friend finds Love and thus defects from their satanic cult.
* InternalizedCategorism: Seligman suggests this as an explanation for why Joe's life has been so shitty - that she has internalized our culture's misogyny and hatred of sexuality.
* LoveRedeems: Several female characters seem to get redeemed by finding love with a man. [[spoiler:However, the redemption remains unconfirmed in two cases, and eventually brutally averted in two others.]]
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Joe is possessed by The Whore Of Babylon (but maybe it was only an epileptic seizure after all). She later grows to lead a gang to fight against Love, because love only leads to jealousy... (or maybe this gang was an actual Satanic Cult after all).
* PsychoLesbian: The film's only same-sex relationship is female and quickly turns into a potentially homicidal flavor of this trope.
* SexIsEvil: While the film portrays sex that isn't based on love as being self-destructive, Joe claims that love is even worse.
* SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny: Everyone. [[spoiler:Yes, even the supposedly asexual Seligman.]]
* TheSociopath: Joe-the-protagonist is portrayed this way by her narrator self, with quite a bit of focus on how she don't care at all about the lives she wrecks.
* UnreliableNarrator: Seligman sometimes calls out Joe on her bullshit, but perhaps not often enough. Her story gives an accurate portrayal of her state of mind, but perhaps less so of her life.
