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{{quote|''"...Fucking Bruges."''|'''[[Arc Words|Everyone in the entire film]]'''}}
A 2008 tragicomedy about [[Hitman
[[First Law of Tragicomedies|And then everything goes to hell.]]
First, it's revealed that Ray's last hit went horribly wrong, and he's consumed with guilt over it. Then, he just keeps running into a Hieronymus Bosch painting of purgatory, a dwarf actor playing in a film based on a Hieronymus Bosch painting of purgatory, a cool chick who sells drugs to a dwarf actor playing in a film based on a Hieronymus Bosch painting of purgatory, and, well, a coked-out vision of purgatory. Ray spends his days grumpy, wondering if he'll go to hell or heaven or purgatory. And [[You ALL Share My Story|the more things start to come together]], the more they fall apart.
The first feature film by acclaimed British/Irish
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* [[Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene]]: A [[Perspective Flip]] of the ratio of quiet to action scenes.
* [[Affably Evil]]: Harry Waters' whole plan is to give Ray the pleasant experience of visiting Bruges before {{spoiler|he has Ken kill him}}. Undercut by the fact that {{spoiler|Ray utterly despises fuckin' Bruges}}.
** He also [[Wouldn't Hurt a Child]], and {{spoiler|kills himself after believing he has, in accordance with the principle he held Ray to}}.
** Harry also has trouble killing {{spoiler|Ken without a fight}}.
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* [[Anti-Hero]]: Ray and Ken are both Type IV.
* [[Anti-Villain]]: Harry Waters.
* [[Asshole Victim]]: Okay, we don't really know if Harry killed the
* [[Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny|Attention Deficit Ooh they're filming midgets!]]
* [[Autobots Rock Out]]
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* [[Big Brother Mentor]]: Ken.
* [[Black Comedy]]: From that black part of the light spectrum that only the [[Coen Brothers]] can see.
* [[Call Back]]: Ken and Harry aren't allowed in the tower because
* [[Canada, Eh?]]: Averted - it is precisely because the Canadians don't fit the stereotypes of Canadians, nor speak with particularly pronounced accents, that Ray mistakes them for Americans.
* [[Career Killers]]: Ken, Ray, Harry.
* [[Chekhov's Armoury]]
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** Also,
** And that's forgetting
** The
* [[Cluster F-Bomb]]
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** The DVD contains all the profanity in the movie [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDyEbUUpiLc edited into a single montage]. Despite very rapid editing, it runs over a minute and a half.
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGiCVdrYji4 You're an inanimate ******* object] [[Stupid Statement Dance Mix]]
* {{spoiler|[[Contract
* [[Country Matters]]: "Harry, let's face it- and I'm not being funny, and I mean no disrespect- but you're a cunt. You're a cunt now, you've always been a cunt, and the only thing that's gonna change is that you're gonna become an even bigger cunt, [[I Take Offense to That Last One|maybe have some more cunt kids]]."
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]
* [[The Determinator]]: Ken and his {{spoiler|climb-to-the-top-of-the-bell-tower-with-a-shot-leg-and-punctured-artery-so-you-can-jump-off-and-tell-Ray-to-take-your-gun-and-run-before-you-die}} determination.
* [[Dramatic Irony]]: {{spoiler|Harry kills himself because he doesn't know the small person whose head he blew off was a dwarf and not a child
* [[Driven to Suicide]]
* [[Eagle Land]]: The [[Fat Bastard|grotesquely obese]] American tourists.
** [[Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping|They were American?]]
** Also parodied when Ray picks a fight with some other American tourists, blaming them, personally, for killing John Lennon and starting [[The Vietnam War]]. Later, we find out
* [[Escape Convenient Boat]]: Unfortunately, {{spoiler|Ray drops his gun after landing, and gets shot anyway}}.
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Killing children is off limits. {{spoiler|Harry holds himself to this so much so that he killed himself when he believed he accidentally killed a kid
** Also, neither Ray nor Harry would fight in the inn with the innocent (and pregnant) bystander there.
* [[Eye Scream]]: A crook tries to rob Ray with a gun loaded with blanks. Ray disarms him and shoots him from point-blank range, permanently blinding him in one eye.
* [[Face Death
* [[Famous Last Words]]: {{spoiler|"I'm gonna die now, I think."}}
**
** And quite possibly:
* [[First Law of Tragicomedies]]: Not as adhered to as most: even in the tensest situations, there's comedic exchanges like {{spoiler|Ray and Harry concocting a plan to continue their shootout outside}}.
* [[Genre Savvy]]:
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* [[Go Through Me]]
* [[Grievous Bottley Harm]]: "In my book, though, [[Foreshadowing|someone comes at you with a bottle]], I'm sorry, that is a deadly weapon, he's gotta take the consequences."
* [[Hair-Trigger Temper]]: Harry.
*
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]:
* [[Hookers and Blow]]:▼
▲* [[Hookers and Blow]]
▲{{quote| "I'vegotfourgramsonmeandonegraminmewhichiswhymeheart'sgoingliketheclappers ..."}}
* [[Infant Immortality]]: The impetus of the plot.
* [[Interrupted Suicide]]: Interrupted ''by'' someone trying to kill the guy who is trying to kill himself. Awkward.
** And then
* [[I Take Offense to That Last One]]: Harry has no problem being told that he is, was and always will be a cunt, but if you call his kids cunts, he gets quite upset.
* [[Jerkass]]: Everyone have a fair share of moments for being this. Harry, Eirik and the Canadian guy in particular.
* [[Jerk
* [[Kill Me Now or Forever Stay Your Hand]]: The stand off between Harry and Ken in the tower. {{spoiler|Partially subverted when Harry shoots Ken in the leg; fully subverted when Harry shoots to kill to prevent Ken from stopping Harry's attempt to kill Ray
* [[Little People Are Surreal]]: Starts out lampshaded, gets subverted, gets turned into [[Reality Ensues]], and almost edges into being played straight.
* [[London Gangster]]: Harry. Ken and Ray are London based but are obviously Irish (Ray explicitly mentions being from Dublin and since Brendan Gleeson uses his own accent Ken is presumably a Dub too
** [[Word of God]] says Ray and Ken were originally supposed to be British, but [[Real Life Writes the Plot|once Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson signed on]] he rewrote the script to make them Irish, turning this into an aversion of [[Fake Brit]].
* [[Love Interest]]: Chloe.
* [[Mexican Standoff]]: [[Played for Laughs]] in the hotel scene.
* [[Mood Whiplash]]: [[Tropes Are Not Bad|One of the film's defining features.]]
* [[More Dakka]]: Averted by Harry's choice of weapon when buying guns. He is offered an Uzi, but is disdainful of it, asking for "a normal gun for a normal person
* [[My Greatest Failure]]:
* [[Never Trust a Trailer]]: The marketing campaign for this movie forgot to mention that it's a [[Tear Jerker]].
** For one, one scene was played in the trailers for (dark) comedy when it was actually the lead-up to the central drama of the piece: Ray pulls off his {{spoiler|first}} hit against the presumably deserving priest, quipping all the way; the clip in the trailer cuts off before {{spoiler|he discovers that a stray or
** The movie suffered in the United States because it was horrendously advertised. It picked up steam once the critics began saying "It's good
* [[Noble Demon]]: Harry has principles.
* [[Odd Couple]]: Pensive, knowledge-seeking Ken vs. twitchy, hedonistic Ray.
* [[Overly Long Gag]]: Ken trying to make five Euro out of his coins to avoid having to break a bill.
* [[Prank Date]]: Naturally, it doesn't go according to plan.
* [[Precision F-Strike]]: {{spoiler|The hotel owner, Marie}} telling Ray and Harry to fuck off.
* [[Pregnant Badass]]: Marie, the hotel owner. While not kicking huge amounts of ass in the traditional sense, she shows enormous courage, standing up to an armed man and refusing to let him upstairs.
* [[Pretty Little Headshots]]: Played straight with regular bullets. Avoided when the [[Your Head Asplode|"dum-dums"]] get used.
* [[Punch Clock Villain]]: All three leads.
* [[Punctuated Pounding|Punctuated Poking]]: "The. Tower. Is. Closed. This. Evening! Understand? Englishman?"
* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: The Conversation between Harry and Eirik at Yuri's house.▼
* [[Reckless Gun Usage]]: [[Averted]] beautifully. Ken is very careful with his guns. Harry locks his guns away when he's at home so his kids can't get at them. Both Ken and Harry practice good trigger discipline throughout the film. Ray is a bit more careless, but as he's much younger, reckless and a bit suicidal, this is in character for him (and he never points a gun at anyone he doesn't want to kill, though his occasional poor aim when he does want to kill someone tends to get him in trouble
* [[Redemption Equals Death]]: The film might as well be subtitled ''Redemption Equals Death: The Movie
* [[Revolvers Are Just Better]]: Averted. Ray laments that his revolver is "a bloody girl's gun" when Ken shows him his own automatic.
* [[Sarcastic Confession]]: Ray confessing to [[My Greatest Failure]] on a first date, and Chloe admitting to her profession in response, both laughing it off as a big joke
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'''Ray:''' I... shoot people for money.
'''Chloe:''' ''[smiling]'' What kinds of people?
'''Ray:''' Priests, children... you know, the usual.
'''Chloë:''' Is there a lot of money to be made in that business?
'''Ray:''' There is for priests. There isn't for children. So what is it you do, Chloë?
'''Chloë:''' I sell cocaine and heroin to Belgian film crews.
* [[Say My Name Trailer]]: "Bruges." "Bruges." "Bruges." "Bruges." "Where is that?" "It's in Belgium."
* [[Scenery Porn]]: Lots of shots showcasing the beauty of Bruges.
* [[Seinfeldian Conversation]]: Lots of 'em, mostly pertaining to fuckin' Bruges.
* [[Tempting Fate]]: The tower guard repeatedly prodding Harry in the face, as he just stands there
* [[That Makes Me Feel Angry]]: Evidently McDonagh could think of no more elegant way of letting the audience know that Ken likes Bruges than having him look out across Bruges and say to himself "I like it here."
▲* {{spoiler|[[The Hero Dies]]: Not explicitly shown, but he does get shot an unpleasantly high number of times in a rather important area of the torso, so it's a pretty good bet he's dead by the time the credits are finished.}}
▲* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: The Conversation between Harry and Eirik at Yuri's house
* [[Title Drop]]: Sort of.
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* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: In Harry's opinion, Eirik, the man who tried to mug Ray with a gun full of blanks.
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'''Harry:''' Well to be honest, it sounds like it's all your fault.
'''Eirik:''' What?
'''Harry:''' I mean basically if you're robbing a man and you're only carrying blanks and you allow your gun to be taken off you and you allow yourself to be shot in the eye with a blank, which I assume that the person has to get quite close to you to do, then yeah. Really it's all your fault for being such a poof, so why don't you stop whinging and cheer the fuck up.
* [[World Limited to
* [[Wouldn't Hit a Girl]]: Harry won't push past the pregnant hotel owner to get up the stairs at Ray. This might be due to his [[Wouldn't Hurt a Child]] rule, though. Averted when Ray hits the Canadian woman, though he's put on the defensive about it later and insists that it was self defense.
** ''She had [[Grievous Bottley Harm|a bottle!]]''
* [[Wouldn't Hurt a Child]]: Harry is very protective of children, possibly due to having several of his own. This becomes a major plot point.
▲* [[World Limited to The Plot]]: Bruges. We get a brief glimpse of Harry's domestic life, a flashback to Ray's fuckup at the church, and a train escape sequence that never goes anywhere -- Ray is led right back to Bruges.
* [[Your Head Asplode]]: The dum dum bullets are said to do this. Hence Harry taking a whole box of Them.
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