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* CapitalismIsBad: The CentralTheme of the film, reflected when [[spoiler: in the long scenes of the end of the family destroying their things, and then flushing money down the toliet]]. Haneke accurately predicted those scenes would be more shocking to the audience than the [[spoiler: suicide.]]
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* ThematicSeries: The first in what Haneke called his "emotional glaciation" trilogy, followed by ''Film/BennysVideo'' and ''71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance''.
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* GeniusBonus: It would actually be inaccurate to state that the title refers to Australia. According to most geographers, there are either 5 or 6 continents in total. There ''is'' a school of thought that adheres to the number of seven - but in that case the seventh one would most probably be ''Antarctica'' (southernmost and discovered last), not Australia. This might be a subtle hint that [[spoiler: everything regarding Australia in the film is a massive RedHerring]].
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: As bleak as it gets, people.]]
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''The Seventh Continent'' (German: ''Der siebente Kontinent'') is a 1989 Austrian drama film directed by Creator/MichaelHaneke. It is Haneke's debut feature film, reportedly InspiredBy a true story. The film chronicles the last years of the European family in Austria, which consists of Georg, an engineer; his wife Anna, an optician; and their young daughter, Eva. They lead routine urban middle-class lives, with hopes of escaping to Australia to start a new life.
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!!This film provides examples of:
* ComfortingComforter: In one scene Anna covers her sleeping daughter with a sheet.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:A very realistic portrayal of suicide, and largely focuses on the emptiness of the central family's life]].
* FadeToBlack: All scenes end with a cut to black.
* ImmediateSelfContradiction: The mother promising not to harm her daughter if she came clean about the blind going at school. Cue the slap in the face once the truth is out.
* InfantImmortality: [[spoiler:The little girl dies first]].
* MorningRoutine: There are lots of repetitive shots of the main family doing mundane morning activities in part one and two, emphasizing the emptiness and loneliness that they are going through.
* ThePromisedLand: Australia is symbolized as the ideal place to escape to for the doomed European family. Ironically, this place is visualized as an otherworldly beach, with a mountain range on the left border and pool of water with mysterious waves (which are clearly physically impossible) in between. The falseness of this place foreshadows the fact that the parents never intended to go there.
* RedHerring: Australia, ThePromisedLand.
* SlippingAMickey: The parents made her daughter [[spoiler:drink poison]]. The little girl comments on the bitterness of her drink.
* SoundtrackDissonance: An uplifting tune is playing on the radio when the family watches the aftermath of a car accident on the highway with the bodies lined up.
* SuicidePact: [[spoiler:Both parents decide to end their lives. Their little girl consents to the triple suicide, not realizing what she got herself into.]]
* VoiceoverLetter: The letter from Anna to he parents-in-law are voiced by her.
* VomitIndiscretionShot: The father is puking on screen after having ingested his [[spoiler:suicide cocktail]].
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''The Seventh Continent'' (German: ''Der siebente Kontinent'') is a 1989 Austrian drama film directed by Creator/MichaelHaneke. It is Haneke's debut feature film, reportedly InspiredBy a true story. The film chronicles the last years of the European family in Austria, which consists of Georg, an engineer; his wife Anna, an optician; and their young daughter, Eva. They lead routine urban middle-class lives, with hopes of escaping to Australia to start a new life.
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!!This film provides examples of:
* ComfortingComforter: In one scene Anna covers her sleeping daughter with a sheet.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:A very realistic portrayal of suicide, and largely focuses on the emptiness of the central family's life]].
* FadeToBlack: All scenes end with a cut to black.
* ImmediateSelfContradiction: The mother promising not to harm her daughter if she came clean about the blind going at school. Cue the slap in the face once the truth is out.
* InfantImmortality: [[spoiler:The little girl dies first]].
* MorningRoutine: There are lots of repetitive shots of the main family doing mundane morning activities in part one and two, emphasizing the emptiness and loneliness that they are going through.
* ThePromisedLand: Australia is symbolized as the ideal place to escape to for the doomed European family. Ironically, this place is visualized as an otherworldly beach, with a mountain range on the left border and pool of water with mysterious waves (which are clearly physically impossible) in between. The falseness of this place foreshadows the fact that the parents never intended to go there.
* RedHerring: Australia, ThePromisedLand.
* SlippingAMickey: The parents made her daughter [[spoiler:drink poison]]. The little girl comments on the bitterness of her drink.
* SoundtrackDissonance: An uplifting tune is playing on the radio when the family watches the aftermath of a car accident on the highway with the bodies lined up.
* SuicidePact: [[spoiler:Both parents decide to end their lives. Their little girl consents to the triple suicide, not realizing what she got herself into.]]
* VoiceoverLetter: The letter from Anna to he parents-in-law are voiced by her.
* VomitIndiscretionShot: The father is puking on screen after having ingested his [[spoiler:suicide cocktail]].
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