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[[File:Last_circus_9906.jpg|frame|It's showtime.]]
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'''Javier''': "What about you?"
'''Sergio''': "Because if I weren't a clown, I'd be a murderer."
'''Javier''': "Me too." }}
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A 2011 [[Black Comedy]] directed by. Álex de la Iglesia. In 1937, a clown is forcibly recruited by the militia to serve in the [[Spanish Civil War]] where he manages to massacre an entire platoon with a machete. Years later in 1973 against the backdrop of [[Francisco Franco|Franco]]-era Spain, his son Javier follows in his father's footsteps, working as a [[Sad Clown]]. There he falls in love with the beautiful acrobat Natalia and in the process runs amok of her abusive lover, Sergio, the Happy Clown. A twisted love triangle ensues develops between the two clowns that escalates into insanity.
Of all of Álex de la Iglesia's films (which include such twisted and weird fare as ''Accion Mutante'' and ''El Dia de La Bestia''), this is probably the darkest and most gritty. And that's saying something.
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* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]: Taken to the extreme. Natalia claims constantly that she's with Sergio because she's afraid of what he'd do if she left him... but she seems to show genuine sexual excitement from the abuse.
* [[Ancient Tomb]]
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* [[Glasgow Grin]]: {{spoiler|Sergio gets half of one after the beating he gets from Javier.}}
* [[Good Scars, Evil Scars]]: Although both get pretty damn mutilated...
* [[Gross Up Close
* [[Historical Domain Character]]: Franco himself makes an appearance.
* [[Infant Immortality]]
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* [[Sad Clown]]
* [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog]]: {{spoiler|No one accomplishes anything in the end. The film ends with both clowns arrested, and Natalia and the Ghost Rider's final stunts end in their own demises.}}
* [[Shout
* [[Sliding Scale of Comedy and Horror]]: In the middle, maaaaaybe inching a little towards horror.
* [[Would Hurt a Child]]: Javier roughly pushes a child away at a diner to get to the jukebox and later points his gun at an other. Nothing happens, though.
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