- Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: One of David's first scenes shows the hotel clerk asking him to choose between homosexuality and heterosexuality, and David taking a long time before answering. Since this is part of our introduction to the character, one might assume it would become a major plot point, but it's never brought up again.
- Crosses the Line Twice: Robert (the lisping man) having his hand put in a toaster because he was caught masturbating. The sheer ridiculousness of the concept makes it this...
- Nightmare Fuel: ...although it certainly doesn't make the hand burning any easier to watch.
- There's also the punishments for sexual relations within the Loners: the Red Kiss (the mutilation of one's lips) and the Red Intercourse (which isn't explained but shown to be blatantly far worse than the former).
- The final scene of the movie is tense as hell. David takes a knife and prepares to blind himself so he and the Short-Sighted Woman can still be compatible. The movie ends before we can see what happens next.
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