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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Julian was so disgusted by Billy's actions that he refuses to avenge him. Crystal also seems a little unnerved upon learning of what he did before offering the weak excuse that "he had his reasons".
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* ALighterShadeOfBlack: Julian is a drug trafficker and possesses an explosive temper but he's practically a candidate for sainthood compared to his abusive mother and his wretched brother.
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* OedipusComplex: Big time. There's some serious sexual tension between Crystal and Julian right from her first arrival, which is made overt when she starts caressing his bicep. In a later scene, she talks about the comparative penis sizes of her two sons. To top it off, we learn that [[spoiler:Julian killed his father]].
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* OedipusComplex: UsefulNotes/OedipusComplex: Big time. There's [[IncestSubtext some serious sexual tension between Crystal and Julian Julian]] right from her first arrival, which is made overt when she starts caressing his bicep. In a later scene, she talks about the comparative penis sizes of her two sons. To top it off, we learn that [[spoiler:Julian killed his father]].
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* BringIt: After effortlessly manhandling [[spoiler: Julian]] without so much as taking a formal fighting stance, Chang puts up his guard when [[spoiler: Julian stands to face him again.]]
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* BringIt: After effortlessly manhandling [[spoiler: Julian]] without so much as taking a formal fighting stance, Chang puts up his guard when [[spoiler: BloodyHallucinationsOfGuilt: Julian stands is given to face him again.]]sullenly staring at his hands and watching them slowly turn into fists. At one point he washes his hands, but he sees the water become blood. This is implied to be guilt over [[spoiler:having beaten his father to death]].
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* BringIt: After effortlessly manhandling [[spoiler: Julian]] without so much as taking a formal fighting stance, Chang puts up his guard when [[spoiler: Julian stands to face him again.]]
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* OutDamnedSpot: Julian is distant and sullen, given to staring at his hands, which he slowly turns into fists. At one point he runs his hands under a faucet, but the faucet spews out blood. This is implied to be guilt over [[spoiler:beating his father to death]].
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* TheseHandsHaveKilled: Julian is distant and sullen, given to staring at his hands, which he slowly turns into fists. At one point he runs his hands under a faucet, but the faucet spews out blood. This is implied to be guilt over [[spoiler:beating his father to death]].
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* ADateWithRosiePalms: Julian hires Mai to masturbate in front of him while he is bound to a chair, apparently as part of some unhealthy aversion to real sexual contact.
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* OminousPipeOrgan: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRHMJ_zzjnA The music that plays]] during the fight between [[spoiler: Julian and Chang]].
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* MacheteMayhem: Chang wields a ''parang'', a kind of machete originating from Indonesia.
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* MacheteMayhem: Chang wields a ''parang'', a kind of silat machete originating from Indonesia. Indonesia to mete out bloody retribution.
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* WeaponOfChoice: Chang metes out bloody retribution with a ''parang'', a silat machete.
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* JudgeJuryAndExecutioner: Change dispenses his own justice upon Bangkok, going as far as to personally execute people with a sword.
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* JudgeJuryAndExecutioner: Change Chang dispenses his own justice upon Bangkok, going as far as to personally execute people with a sword.
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''Only God Forgives'' is a 2013 crime film directed by Creator/NicolasWindingRefn, starring Creator/RyanGosling and Creator/KristinScottThomas. While it's not a direct narrative sequel to Gosling and Refn's previous collaboration, ''Film/Drive2011'', this hasn't stopped many from seeing it as a SpiritualSuccessor of sorts -- a theory that hasn't been wholly OutdatedByCanon [[WordOfGod by Refn himself]].
Julian (Gosling), an American, lives with his older brother Billy (Tom Burke) in Bangkok, where the Thai boxing club he manages is in fact a front for a drug-smuggling operation. One night, for unknown reasons, Billy rapes and brutally murders an underage prostitute. Lt. Chang (Vithaya Pansringarm) a local cop who moonlights as a vigilante arranges for the prostitute's father to beat Billy to death, setting in motion a chain reaction of revenge killings that eventually involves Julian and Billy's mother (Thomas), who heads the family's criminal business. Caught in the mayhem, Julian begins to seek a way out.
Shot on location in Thailand, it takes great influence from the country's culture down to using the Thai language in dialogue and on-screen text.
Julian (Gosling), an American, lives with his older brother Billy (Tom Burke) in Bangkok, where the Thai boxing club he manages is in fact a front for a drug-smuggling operation. One night, for unknown reasons, Billy rapes and brutally murders an underage prostitute. Lt. Chang (Vithaya Pansringarm) a local cop who moonlights as a vigilante arranges for the prostitute's father to beat Billy to death, setting in motion a chain reaction of revenge killings that eventually involves Julian and Billy's mother (Thomas), who heads the family's criminal business. Caught in the mayhem, Julian begins to seek a way out.
Shot on location in Thailand, it takes great influence from the country's culture down to using the Thai language in dialogue and on-screen text.
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''Only God Forgives'' is a 2013 crime film directed by Creator/NicolasWindingRefn, starring Creator/RyanGosling and Creator/KristinScottThomas. While it's not a direct narrative sequel to Gosling and Refn's previous collaboration, ''Film/Drive2011'', ''[[Film/Drive2011 Drive]]'', this hasn't stopped many from seeing it as a SpiritualSuccessor of sorts -- a theory that hasn't been wholly OutdatedByCanon [[WordOfGod by Refn himself]].
Julian(Gosling), (Gosling) is an American, American man who lives with his older brother Billy (Tom Burke) in Bangkok, where the Thai boxing club he manages is in fact a front for a drug-smuggling operation. One night, for unknown reasons, Billy rapes and brutally murders an underage prostitute. Lt. Chang (Vithaya Pansringarm) a local cop who moonlights as a vigilante vigilante, arranges for the prostitute's father to beat Billy to death, setting in motion a chain reaction of revenge killings that eventually involves Julian and Billy's mother (Thomas), who heads the family's criminal business. Caught in the mayhem, Julian begins to seek a way out.
Shot on location in Thailand,it the film takes great influence from the country's culture down to using the Thai language in dialogue and on-screen text.
Julian
Shot on location in Thailand,
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* CoversAlwaysLie: A number of DVD covers and posters feature Julian in a boxing guard, seeming to imply that he is some kind of expert bare-knuckle fighter. [[spoiler:In reality his only fistfight in the movie is a CurbStompBattle where he is utterly humiliated by Chang]].
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* BadassInANiceSuit: Julian spends the later parts of the film in a fancy three-piece suit. He squares off against Chang after removing his jacket and rolling up his sleeves. [[spoiler: However, he turns out to not be particularly badass, as his mother laments]].
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* BadassInANiceSuit: Julian spends the later parts of the film in a fancy three-piece suit. He squares off against Chang after removing his jacket and rolling up his sleeves. [[spoiler: However, he turns out to not be particularly badass, as his mother laments]].laments and his fight with Chang goes entirely in the latter's favor with Julian not landing so much as a single blow]].
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* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: [[spoiler: Julian's "fight" with Chang almost instantly turns into a laughably one-sided battle where Chang effortlessly pummels Julian who fails to land even a single hit.]]
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* WouldntHurtAChild: [[spoiler: Julian, leading to his HeelFaceTurn.]]
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* WouldntHurtAChild: [[spoiler: Julian, leading to his HeelFaceTurn.]]]]
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''Only God Forgives'' is a 2013 crime film directed by Creator/NicolasWindingRefn, starring Creator/RyanGosling and Creator/KristinScottThomas. While it's not a direct narrative sequel to Gosling and Refn's previous collaboration, ''Film/{{Drive}}'', ''Film/Drive2011'', this hasn't stopped many from seeing it as a SpiritualSuccessor of sorts -- a theory that hasn't been wholly OutdatedByCanon [[WordOfGod by Refn himself]].
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* SpiritualSuccessor: Shares a lot with Refn's previous films ''Film/ValhallaRising'' and ''Film/{{Drive}}'' as well as Creator/SergioCorbucci's ''{{Film/The Great Silence}}''.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: Shares a lot with Refn's previous films ''Film/ValhallaRising'' and ''Film/{{Drive}}'' ''Film/Drive2011'' as well as Creator/SergioCorbucci's ''{{Film/The Great Silence}}''.
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''Only God Forgives'' is a 2013 crime film directed by Creator/NicolasWindingRefn, starring Creator/RyanGosling and Creator/KristinScottThomas. While it's not a direct narrative sequel to Gosling and Refn's previous collaboration, ''Film/{{Drive}}'', this hasn't stopped many from seeing it as a SpiritualSuccessor of sorts -- a theory that hasn't been wholly {{jossed}} OutdatedByCanon [[WordOfGod by Refn himself]].
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* WouldntHurtAChild: [[spoiler: Julian, leading to his Heel Face Turn.]]
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* WouldntHurtAChild: [[spoiler: Julian, leading to his Heel Face Turn.HeelFaceTurn.]]
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* FlatCharacter: None of the characters really have much of a personality aside from being [[TheSociopath violent remorseless assholes]].
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''Only God Forgives'' is a 2013 crime film directed by Creator/NicolasWindingRefn, starring Creator/RyanGosling and Kristin Scott Thomas. While it's not a direct narrative sequel to Gosling and Refn's previous collaboration, ''Film/{{Drive}}'', this hasn't stopped many from seeing it as a SpiritualSuccessor of sorts -- a theory that hasn't been wholly {{jossed}} [[WordOfGod by Refn himself]].
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''Only God Forgives'' is a 2013 crime film directed by Creator/NicolasWindingRefn, starring Creator/RyanGosling and Kristin Scott Thomas.Creator/KristinScottThomas. While it's not a direct narrative sequel to Gosling and Refn's previous collaboration, ''Film/{{Drive}}'', this hasn't stopped many from seeing it as a SpiritualSuccessor of sorts -- a theory that hasn't been wholly {{jossed}} [[WordOfGod by Refn himself]].
