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I'm not entirely sure if this film qualifies as a case of Dont Shoot The Message, since said message was never really intended in the first place. If it doesn't, please remove said item.
* DontShootTheMessage: There's a potentially good female empowerment message, but it's buried under a mountain of gratuitous and exploitative nudity, to say nothing of the horribly homophobic portrayal of the sole lesbian character as a [[PsychoLesbian predatory monster]]. Though to be fair, the director made the film with purely mercenary motives and thus never intended it to carry such a message in the first place.
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* ValuesDissonance: The lesbian client is portrayed as a [[PsychoLesbian predatory sexual sadist]]. In modern times, such a depiction would be decried as homophobic.
* TheWoobie: You fuckin' kill those bastards, Madeline!
* TheWoobie: You fuckin' kill those bastards, Madeline!
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* ValuesDissonance: The lesbian client is portrayed as a [[PsychoLesbian predatory sexual sadist]].sadist]] who deserves to die for it. In modern times, such a depiction would be decried as homophobic.
* TheWoobie: Madeline is [[RapeAsBackstory sexually assaulted as a child]], kidnapped and forced into prostitution by a sadistic man who forcibly addicts her to heroin, is repeatedly violated by various johns, [[EyeScream loses an eye]] to said sadist, and has her parents tricked into [[DrivenToSuicide committing suicide]]. You fuckin' kill those bastards, Madeline!
* TheWoobie: Madeline is [[RapeAsBackstory sexually assaulted as a child]], kidnapped and forced into prostitution by a sadistic man who forcibly addicts her to heroin, is repeatedly violated by various johns, [[EyeScream loses an eye]] to said sadist, and has her parents tricked into [[DrivenToSuicide committing suicide]]. You fuckin' kill those bastards, Madeline!
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* TookTheBadFilmSeriously: Despite her own opinions on the film, many regard Christina Lindberg's performance as Madeline as one of its highlights.
* ValuesDissonance: The lesbian client is portrayed as a [[PsychoLesbian predatory sexual sadist]]. In modern times, such a depiction would be decried as homophobic.
* ValuesDissonance: The lesbian client is portrayed as a [[PsychoLesbian predatory sexual sadist]]. In modern times, such a depiction would be decried as homophobic.
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* TearJerker: Madeline going home, finding her parents hung, then finding the letter that Tony wrote, and not saying anything but shedding a tear from her one good eye.
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* TearJerker: Madeline going home, finding her parents hung, hanged, then finding the letter that Tony wrote, and not saying anything but shedding a tear from her one good eye.
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* CompleteMonster: Tony, who not only forces Madeline into prostitution and gouges out one of her eyes when she refuses a particular client, but forges a letter meant to alienate her from her parents which [[DrivenToSuicide drives them to suicide]]. What a bastard.
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* CompleteMonster: Tony, who not only The brutal pimp Tony forces Madeline the heroine of the movie, Madeline, into prostitution where he [[WouldHitAGirl abuses and gouges out one of her eyes when she refuses a particular client, but mistreats the girls]]. When he decides he wants no attachment remaining for Madeline in the outside world, he forges a letter meant to alienate her from her parents which [[DrivenToSuicide drives them to causes their suicide]]. What He later [[EyeScream gouges out Madeline's eye]] when she refuses a bastard.client. In order to control the girls, Tony forcibly addicts them to heroin and leaves them unable to go without a fix for longer than a few hours which he provides only in exchange for them selling their bodies.
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* CompleteMonster: Tony, who not only forces Madeline into prostitution, but forges a letter meant to alienate her from her parents which [[DrivenToSuicide drives them to suicide]].
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* CompleteMonster: Tony, who not only forces Madeline into prostitution, prostitution and gouges out one of her eyes when she refuses a particular client, but forges a letter meant to alienate her from her parents which [[DrivenToSuicide drives them to suicide]].suicide]]. What a bastard.
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* CompleteMonster: Tony.
* {{Tearjerker}}: Madeline going home, finding her parents hung, then finding the letter that Tony wrote, and not saying anything but shedding a tear from her one good eye.
* {{Tearjerker}}: Madeline going home, finding her parents hung, then finding the letter that Tony wrote, and not saying anything but shedding a tear from her one good eye.
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* CompleteMonster: Tony.
Tony, who not only forces Madeline into prostitution, but forges a letter meant to alienate her from her parents which [[DrivenToSuicide drives them to suicide]].
*{{Tearjerker}}: TearJerker: Madeline going home, finding her parents hung, then finding the letter that Tony wrote, and not saying anything but shedding a tear from her one good eye.
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* CompleteMonster: Tony.
* {{Tearjerker}}: Madeline going home, finding her parents hung, then finding the letter that Tony wrote, and not saying anything but shedding a tear from her one good eye.
* TheWoobie: You fuckin' kill those bastards, Madeline!
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* {{Tearjerker}}: Madeline going home, finding her parents hung, then finding the letter that Tony wrote, and not saying anything but shedding a tear from her one good eye.
* TheWoobie: You fuckin' kill those bastards, Madeline!
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