The Proposition/YMMV


 * Alas Poor Villain
 * Complete Monster: Eden Fletcher. The rich man of the town, he is a sadistic Knight Templar who orders a retarded fourteen-year old to be flogged to death. He casually orders the massacre of entire aborigine villages. Picture Gene Hackman's character in Unforgiven, and then take away everything that makes him sympathetic, and give him a really annoying Oxford English accent. His actor, David Wenham, comments that in his own way, Fletcher is just as cruel as Arthur under a veneer of high class.
 * Crowning Music of Awesome: The entire eerie, dissonant soundtrack
 * Moral Event Horizon: Used and subverted. Arthur crossed it when he led the Hopkins Massacre, where the whole family was tortured first. But his youngest brother Mikey is mentally ill and barely aware of the terrible crime.
 * Nightmare Fuel: Opening credits: a sweet children's choir singing while we see black-and-white images of the Hopkins Massacre's aftermath. One of these is the baby's cradle drenched in blood.
 * Tear Jerker:.