History Film / OrphanFirstKill

* EvilIsNotAToy: [[spoiler: Tricia and Gunnar wanted to use Leena's con to try and conceal the fact that the real Esther was killed by Gunnar; Tricia specifically wanted to use "Esther's return" as a means fixing Allen's depression over his daughter's disappearance so he would become a happy and successful artist once more. All the while knowing that Leena was an unstable DepravedDwarf ConArtist and SerialKiller. [[BullyingADragon On top of that, they feel the need to insult her over her class, nationality and condition while also thinking they can control and bully her into compliance.]] [[ForegoneConclusion It goes about as well for them as Leena/Esther's own attempts at seducing her adoptive fathers]].]]
* EvilVersusEvil: [[spoiler: The sociopathic VillainProtagonist Esther/Leena Klammer who plans to steal Allen away from the [[EvilAllAlong surprise twist]] BigBadDuumvirate of Tricia and Gunnar who both covered up the real Esther's death at the latter's hands. Leena proved to be EvilerThanThou as she successfully destroys the Albrights]].

** In many parts of the movie, Tricia can come off as somewhat nit-picky when questioning Esther about her interests and mannerisms, as well as repeated insistence that "Esther's not coming back" (as the real Esther went missing when she was 3 years old), [[spoiler: and Leena impersonates her as 7, Tricia seemingly ignoring the fact that "Esther" was supposedly kidnapped and possibly traumatized, and that children can grow up to have different interests than they would a few years ago, like when she noted that Esther was more into painting now than when she was younger). But after the reveal, it makes sense since Tricia covered up for Gunnar killing the real Esther, she knows that the Esther that found them wasn't really her, and she's trying to call her bluff or make her slip up]].
** Gunnar, Esther's older brother, appears not to care for his younger sister at all. Given that she went missing for years and finally found, you'd think he'd show some emotion. He even lets one of his friends talk bad about her more than once without defending her. [[spoiler: Because he knows this Esther is an imposter. He killed the real Esther and his mother Tricia covered it up by making it look like she went missing.]]

* HalfwayPlotSwitch: [[spoiler: The twist of the movie reveals that Esther isn't the only BigBad of the movie. Two of her targets are too. Once it's revealed they know she's a fake, the dynamic shifts to a tension between Leena and Tricia, now on the same playing field, both trying to have their evil way while hiding their respective cons from others.]]

* RippedFromTheHeadlines: Esther's scheme bears a ''huge'' similarity to the real-life case of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frédéric_Bourdin Frédéric Bourdin]], an adult impostor who claimed to be missing American teenager Nicholas Barclay after researching missing American children. Bourdin and the private investigator who exposed him also heavily suspected that [[spoiler:the real Nicholas was murdered by his mother and brother and they knowingly took Bourdin in to maintain the lie that Nicholas went "missing"]] but this was never conclusively proven.

* RippedFromTheHeadlines: Esther's scheme bears a ''huge'' similarity to the real-life case of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frédéric_Bourdin Frédéric Bourdin]], an adult impostor who claimed to be missing American teenager Nicholas Barclay after researching missing American children. The film also includes as truth the heavy suspicion by Bourdin and a private investigator that [[spoiler:the real Nicholas was murdered by his mother and brother and they knowingly took Bourdin in to maintain the lie that Nicholas went "missing"]] which was never conclusively proven.

* RippedFromTheHeadlines: Esther's scheme bears a ''huge'' similarity to the real-life case of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fréderic_Bourdin Frédéric Bourdin]], an adult impostor who claimed to be missing American teenager Nicholas Barclay after researching missing American children. The film also includes as truth the heavy suspicion by Bourdin and a private investigator that [[spoiler:the real Nicholas was murdered by his mother and brother and they knowingly took Bourdin in to maintain the lie that Nicholas went "missing"]] which was never conclusively proven.