YMMV / The Disappearance of Alice Creed

• Alternative Character Interpretation:
  • Danny is a Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass, who plays both Vic and Alice for his own gains.
  • Is Danny a sociopath? He claims to love Alice but it's unclear if he was just using her to get her Dad's money and it's obvious he was stringing Vic along because Vic protected him in prison and came up with the kidnapping plan. He shows quite the Lack of Empathy, manipulative tendencies and impulsiveness (he's responsible for most of if not all the "What an Idiot!" moments in the film) and he arrogantly assumes he has both Alice and Vic totally under his control because both of them "love" him.
• Best Known for the Fanservice: Gemma Arterton is stripped naked within the first 10 minutes of the film. Considering how seriously the scene is played, it might count as Fan Disservice for some. She's later also shown topless with Danny.
• Moral Event Horizon: Whether or not you believe (or agree with the bizarre reasoning of,) Danny's story that he was doing this to be with Alice, his ultimate decision to leave her to starve to death while he runs off with the money (especially pointless since he's bleeding to death anyway), is unforgivable.
• The Woobie: Alice! She's kidnapped, stripped naked, forced to beg her estranged father to pay the ransom with a knife to her throat, made to piss in front of her kidnappers, one of whom turns out to be her ex-boyfriend, beaten by both him and the other man on two separate occasions and very nearly left to starve to death in an abandoned warehouse by said boyfriend solely out of spite.
  • Probably not solely out of spite, but to prevent her from accusing him. (Which she would have likely done, because she had even left him chained to the bed for Vic to possibly kill him due to being a witness and a traitor.) Without Alice's accusation, Danny would have had more leeway. Instead of going on the run, he could have claimed that he told Vic about Alice casually but wasn't involved in the kidnapping, or he could have tried to make it look like the disappearances of the two were unrelated. Which would have been suspenseful because the warehouse might be under surveillance by the time he got back.

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