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* IncestSubtext: Francisca seems to have a bit of an ElectraComplex; she sleeps in the same bed as her father, repeatedly asks him to dance, and bathes him when he becomes infirm. After he dies, she performs a seductive Portuguese dance for his corpse.
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* IncestSubtext: Francisca seems to have a bit of an ElectraComplex; a complex towards her father; she sleeps in the same bed as her father, him, repeatedly asks him to dance, and bathes him when he becomes infirm. After he dies, she performs a seductive Portuguese dance for his corpse.
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* IncestSubtext: Francisca seems to have a bit of an [[OedipusComplex Electra complex]]; she sleeps in the same bed as her father, repeatedly asks him to dance, and bathes him when he becomes infirm. After he dies, she performs a seductive Portuguese dance for his corpse.
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* IncestSubtext: Francisca seems to have a bit of an [[OedipusComplex Electra complex]]; ElectraComplex; she sleeps in the same bed as her father, repeatedly asks him to dance, and bathes him when he becomes infirm. After he dies, she performs a seductive Portuguese dance for his corpse.
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* IncestSubtext: Francisca seems to have a bit of an ElectraComplex; [[OedipusComplex Electra complex]]; she sleeps in the same bed as her father, repeatedly asks him to dance, and bathes him when he becomes infirm. After he dies, she performs a seductive Portuguese dance for his corpse.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: Francisca is clearly ''extremely'' unwell, but whether it's the result of trauma or a more deeply ingrained disorder is left ambiguous.
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* AdultFear: The film absolutely runs on this, starting when Francisca's mother looks out the window and sees her talking to a strange man. Reaches its absolute peak when [[spoiler: Francisca steals Antonio right out of Lucy's arms and runs back in the house; Lucy's terrified screams and pleas for Francisca not to hurt him are absolutely bone-chilling]].
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* HowWeGotHere: The film opens with a truck driver stopping to help a woman collapsed in the middle of the road. We only learn the context of this near the very end.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: Francisca is clearly ''extremely'' unwell, but whether it's the result of trauma or a more deeply ingrained disorder is left ambiguous.
* AmbiguouslyBi: Francisca is at least bicurious, as she takes Kimiko home for a date, but she may just be exploring her sexuality.
* AmbiguouslyBi: Francisca is at least bicurious, as she takes Kimiko home for a date, but she may just be exploring her sexuality.
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* BuryYourGays: [[spoiler: Kimiko is Francisca's first kill]].
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* EvilFeelsGood: While stabbing [[spoiler: Charlie]] to death, Francisca admits this to herself.
--> ''"You're right. This does feel amazing."''
--> ''"You're right. This does feel amazing."''
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* FanDisservice: Francisca gets naked at one point, but it's for the purpose of [[spoiler: raping the helpless, mutilated Charlie]].
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* NoSocialSkills: All of Francisca's social interactions are extremely stilted and awkward, due to her spending her entire life on the farm and hardly ever seeing anyone else.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: Francisca's father imprisons Charlie in her shed and lets his daughter treat him as a pet.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: Francisca's father imprisons Charlie in her shed and lets his daughter treat him as a pet.
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* SerialKiller: Charlie, who is also likely a SerialRapist.
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* AFateWorseThanDeath: Happens to Charlie and, later, [[spoiler: Lucy]]. See AndIMustScream for details.
--> '''Charlie:''' You're gonna kill me, right?
--> '''Francisca:''' No. Why would I do that? You're my friend.
--> '''Charlie:''' You're gonna kill me, right?
--> '''Francisca:''' No. Why would I do that? You're my friend.
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* ForTheEvulz: Charlie admits that he only does what he does because "it feels amazing".
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* BolivianArmyEnding: [[spoiler: Antonio lets Lucy out of the barn, and she wanders for many miles until she's picked up by a trucker. That night the police raid the farmhouse and Francisca barricades herself in the bathroom with Antonio. As the camera cuts outside, we hear a gunshot]].
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* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: [[spoiler: After being rebuffed by Kimiko, Francisca drags Charlie out of the barn and rapes him in the bedroom]].
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* LeaveTheCameraRunning: The camerawork mostly consists of long, static, silent takes.
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* SilenceIsGolden: There's very little dialogue.
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* DeliberatelyMonochrome: Filmed completely in black-and-white, lending it an arthouse sheen. Website/TheAVClub have described it as "''Film/TheTexasChainSawMassacre'' directed by Creator/IngmarBergman" for this reason.
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* BaldOfEvil: Francisca's father is an emotionally dead person whose idea of vigilante justice is keeping a man chained up in the barn for more than a decade. Even though he's never shown to be abusive, it's likely that Francisca is as fucked up as she is simply because of his influence.
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* BaldOfEvil: Francisca's father is an emotionally dead man person whose idea of vigilante justice is keeping a man chained up in the barn for more than a decade. Even though he's never shown to be abusive, it's likely that Francisca is as fucked up as she is simply because of his influence.
* BigDamnHeroes: A bleak, downplayed example. Francisca's father comes home while Charlie is raping her mother and knocks him out with a blow to the head, but by the time he arrives she's already dead and Charlie is just repeatedly bashing her corpse with his pistol.
* BigDamnHeroes: A bleak, downplayed example. Francisca's father comes home while Charlie is raping her mother and knocks him out with a blow to the head, but by the time he arrives she's already dead and Charlie is just repeatedly bashing her corpse with his pistol.
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* EmotionlessGirl: Francisca, though she has some private emotional breakdowns when her loneliness gets to her.
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* FauxAffablyEvil: Charlie pretends to be a friendly salesman in order to get inside the house, only to then pull out a pistol and drag Francisca's mother into the bathroom to be raped.
* GoryDiscretionShot: As gruesome as it is, very little of the violence actually happens oncreen. We mostly just see the aftermath of it.
* GoryDiscretionShot: As gruesome as it is, very little of the violence actually happens oncreen. We mostly just see the aftermath of it.
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Please mother, help me."'']]
''The Eyes of My Mother'' is a 2016 PsychologicalHorror film directed by Nicholas Pesce. It tells the story of Francisca, a Portuguese-American girl who lives in an isolated farmhouse with her mother, a surgeon and devout Catholic, and her father, an emotionally distant rancher. One day, the family is assaulted by a home invader, leaving the mother dead and Francisca traumatized. As the years pass following this incident, Francisca's trauma deepens and she develops a morbid obsession with violence. When her father passes away, her loneliness drives her to seek a new family...
!!Tropes this film displays:
* AdultFear: The film absolutely runs on this, starting when Francisca's mother looks out the window and sees her talking to a strange man. Reaches its absolute peak when [[spoiler: Francisca steals Antonio right out of Lucy's arms and runs back in the house; Lucy's terrified screams and pleas for Francisca not to hurt him are absolutely bone-chilling]].
* AndIMustScream: Charlie and later [[spoiler: Lucy]] are kept chained up 24/7, with their eyes and vocal cords cut out so they can't escape or scream for help. After she realizes what's been done to her, [[spoiler: Lucy]] tries to scream but only produces a gurgle.
* AssholeVictim: Considering that he's a serial killer and probable rapist, it's pretty hard to feel bad for [[spoiler: Charlie]], even despite his inhumanly gruesome fate. [[spoiler: And for how much of a TragicVillain she is, Francisca herself likely won't engender much sympathy when she's killed by the police at the end]].
* BaldOfEvil: Francisca's father is an emotionally dead man whose idea of vigilante justice is keeping a man chained up in the barn for more than a decade. Even though he's never shown to be abusive, it's likely that Francisca is as fucked up as she is simply because of his influence.
* BilingualDialogue: Much of Francisca's dialogue is in Portuguese.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Francisca acts quite courteous and polite to her victims before resorting to violence. Considering that she's implied to largely be ObliviouslyEvil, it's ambiguous as to how much of it is an act.
* ChildrenAreInnocent: [[spoiler: Antonio seems to be surprisingly well-adjusted for someone raised by Francisca, and is moral enough to be horrified by Lucy's fate and help her escape when he sees what Francisca's done to her]].
* CreepyChild: Francisca didn't seem to be ''too'' bad prior to the death of her mother, barring an interest in surgery. Afterwards, though, she's [[DissonantSerenity completely emotionless]], fascinated by dead things, and [[spoiler: keeping her mother's killer chained up as a pet in the barn. While periodically performing surgery on him]].
* DeliberatelyMonochrome: Filmed completely in black-and-white, lending it an arthouse sheen. Website/TheAVClub have described it as "''Film/TheTexasChainSawMassacre'' directed by Creator/IngmarBergman" for this reason.
* EyeScream: Francisca surgically removes Charlie's and [[spoiler: Lucy's]] eyes, along with their vocal cords.
* IncestSubtext: Francisca seems to have a bit of an ElectraComplex; she sleeps in the same bed as her father, repeatedly asks him to dance, and bathes him when he becomes infirm. After he dies, she performs a seductive Portuguese dance for his corpse.
* MadwomanInTheAttic: After being disabled by Francisca's father, Charlie is kept chained up in the shed, where Francisca turns him into her pet. [[spoiler: Years later, after she kills him for trying to escape, Francisca does the same thing with Lucy]].
* MurderBallad: The trucker in the opening scene is listening to one on the radio, which foreshadows the rest of the film.
* ObliviouslyEvil: Francisca doesn't seem to realize that anything she does is wrong, and in fact seems to love her prisoners in her own fashion.
* TalkingToTheDead: Francisca often prays to her mother, and near the end of the film [[spoiler: digs up her skeleton and talks to it]].
* TragicVillain: Francisca was deeply traumatized by the murder of her mother and never got a chance to healthily process it because of her sociopathic father. She doesn't seem to realize that anything she does is wrong and is driven more by loneliness and a desire for human contact than sadism.
* VillainProtagonist: Francisca, of the TragicVillain variety.
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''The Eyes of My Mother'' is a 2016 PsychologicalHorror film directed by Nicholas Pesce. It tells the story of Francisca, a Portuguese-American girl who lives in an isolated farmhouse with her mother, a surgeon and devout Catholic, and her father, an emotionally distant rancher. One day, the family is assaulted by a home invader, leaving the mother dead and Francisca traumatized. As the years pass following this incident, Francisca's trauma deepens and she develops a morbid obsession with violence. When her father passes away, her loneliness drives her to seek a new family...
!!Tropes this film displays:
* AdultFear: The film absolutely runs on this, starting when Francisca's mother looks out the window and sees her talking to a strange man. Reaches its absolute peak when [[spoiler: Francisca steals Antonio right out of Lucy's arms and runs back in the house; Lucy's terrified screams and pleas for Francisca not to hurt him are absolutely bone-chilling]].
* AndIMustScream: Charlie and later [[spoiler: Lucy]] are kept chained up 24/7, with their eyes and vocal cords cut out so they can't escape or scream for help. After she realizes what's been done to her, [[spoiler: Lucy]] tries to scream but only produces a gurgle.
* AssholeVictim: Considering that he's a serial killer and probable rapist, it's pretty hard to feel bad for [[spoiler: Charlie]], even despite his inhumanly gruesome fate. [[spoiler: And for how much of a TragicVillain she is, Francisca herself likely won't engender much sympathy when she's killed by the police at the end]].
* BaldOfEvil: Francisca's father is an emotionally dead man whose idea of vigilante justice is keeping a man chained up in the barn for more than a decade. Even though he's never shown to be abusive, it's likely that Francisca is as fucked up as she is simply because of his influence.
* BilingualDialogue: Much of Francisca's dialogue is in Portuguese.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Francisca acts quite courteous and polite to her victims before resorting to violence. Considering that she's implied to largely be ObliviouslyEvil, it's ambiguous as to how much of it is an act.
* ChildrenAreInnocent: [[spoiler: Antonio seems to be surprisingly well-adjusted for someone raised by Francisca, and is moral enough to be horrified by Lucy's fate and help her escape when he sees what Francisca's done to her]].
* CreepyChild: Francisca didn't seem to be ''too'' bad prior to the death of her mother, barring an interest in surgery. Afterwards, though, she's [[DissonantSerenity completely emotionless]], fascinated by dead things, and [[spoiler: keeping her mother's killer chained up as a pet in the barn. While periodically performing surgery on him]].
* DeliberatelyMonochrome: Filmed completely in black-and-white, lending it an arthouse sheen. Website/TheAVClub have described it as "''Film/TheTexasChainSawMassacre'' directed by Creator/IngmarBergman" for this reason.
* EyeScream: Francisca surgically removes Charlie's and [[spoiler: Lucy's]] eyes, along with their vocal cords.
* IncestSubtext: Francisca seems to have a bit of an ElectraComplex; she sleeps in the same bed as her father, repeatedly asks him to dance, and bathes him when he becomes infirm. After he dies, she performs a seductive Portuguese dance for his corpse.
* MadwomanInTheAttic: After being disabled by Francisca's father, Charlie is kept chained up in the shed, where Francisca turns him into her pet. [[spoiler: Years later, after she kills him for trying to escape, Francisca does the same thing with Lucy]].
* MurderBallad: The trucker in the opening scene is listening to one on the radio, which foreshadows the rest of the film.
* ObliviouslyEvil: Francisca doesn't seem to realize that anything she does is wrong, and in fact seems to love her prisoners in her own fashion.
* TalkingToTheDead: Francisca often prays to her mother, and near the end of the film [[spoiler: digs up her skeleton and talks to it]].
* TragicVillain: Francisca was deeply traumatized by the murder of her mother and never got a chance to healthily process it because of her sociopathic father. She doesn't seem to realize that anything she does is wrong and is driven more by loneliness and a desire for human contact than sadism.
* VillainProtagonist: Francisca, of the TragicVillain variety.
