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1	* AdaptationDisplacement: After ''Carousel'', ''Liliom''[='s=] now a footnote.
2	* AlternateCharacterInterpretation:
3	** Given that the portrayal of his minor role depends on the production, Enoch Snow Jr. invites a lot of this. Is he an EntitledBastard whose marriage proposal to Louise was CondescendingCompassion to save her from a life of sin? A well-meaning guy trying to invoke ChildhoodFriendRomance? Does he agree with his father that Louise is "beneath his station" or simply saying what his father would think and phrased it poorly? Depending if he's in the montage of Louise's Ballet as in the movie, is he a guy who genuinely likes Louise but has a bad case of BystanderSyndrome when it comes to standing up for her? Does his outburst against Louise show his true colors as a RichJerk or is it just something said in a fit of temper that he regretted later?
4	** Likewise how does Louise see him? A ChildhoodFriend who she can confide in? A nuisance she barely puts up with? Does she have feelings for him or not?
5	* FairForItsDay: The topic of domestic abuse was not handled very well in this play, but in 1945 the fact that it even admitted this happened was a small breakthrough.
6	* {{Padding}}: "June Is Bustin' Out All Over" seems to eat up too much of the movie, since it has a five-minute dance sequence performed either mostly or entirely by nameless extras.
7	* SpecialEffectFailure: The scenes of the movie shot indoors look more artificial than those shot on location.
8	* TearJerker:
9	** "You'll Never Walk Alone"
10	** The instrumental "Louise's Ballet". It turns into a bit of NightmareFuel at the end when after she is left by a circus boy she had a crush on, a group of kids [[CircleOfShame circle her and chant "shame on you!"]] until Louise runs away crying.
11	* ValuesDissonance: A general theme of the story is supposed to be "Love your man, despite his faults." But it comes off as "If your deadbeat husband beats you and has no respect for you, it just means he loves you." The fact that the song telling this moral was later made by Music/AmandaPalmer into a chilling remix describing battered wife syndrome ''without changing a single thing about the song'' really says something. Newer productions tend to aim for DeliberateValuesDissonance in that same vein by showing Julie's love for him as more unambiguously tragic and self-destructive or highlighting the cycle of subpar parenting that produced Billy and would have been passed on to his child; some productions go as far as to make it ambiguous whether the one good deed Billy performs at the end is enough to save him from damnation.
12	* TheWoobie:
13	** Julie. Just Julie, period.
14	** Also Louise, her daughter. Due to her father's reputation, she has almost no friends since the local kids ostracize her. Poor thing...

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