History Film / AWoundedFawn

** Owls to Bruce. Like them, he is a bird of prey, per say, who kills several women to satisfy his bloodlust using a claw-like weapon. His bloodlust is represented by an owl-like figure appearing before him to ask for a kill.

* DropDeadGorgeous: Bruce strips Meredith's corpse down to her red bra and panties, though [[spoiler:it's subverted because she's not actually dead]].

** Meredith mentioning that her thesis in college was deconstructing the myth of the muse and the erasure of female artists. [[spoiler:The Muse can be seen as a reference here to Bruce's obsession with "taking things it finds beautiful", both artworks and women that he knows would never want to be with him.]]

** Zigzagged with Bruce's broken skull. While Bruce does sometimes reel in pain when the wound is touched, he otherwise moves around without any seeming difficulty or pain through most of the film. He whips his head around and even presses his head against a door without any apparent discomfort. Even after [[spoiler:having a seizure due to hitting his head]], he remains perfectly mobile and unpained]].
* KillHimAlready: [[spoiler:Meredith beat Bruce unconscious with the Erinyes sculpture, hitting him hard enough to crack his skull open, but rather than hit him one more time to cave his head in and seek immediate help, she spends the rest of the night apparently hiding in the woods wearing a tarp and a duct tape bandage, watching him freak out]].

** [[spoiler:Snakes for the Erinyes. One of Meredith's friends wears a dress covered in snakes, which is fitting because Meredith and her two friends match the three female Erinyes. When one the Erinyes is talking with Bruce, more and more snakes appear around her. A snake hits the window during Bruce and Meredith's date, possibly to warn her. One of them is also able to turn a stove into a snake to attack Bruce. Tisiphone, one of the furies and the "Tormentor of Murderers" that plays a role as the front of the group and represents Meredith among Bruce's victims, is shown in the statue with a snake hair.]]

** Owls to Bruce. Like them, he is a bird of prey, per say, which kills several women to satisfy his bloodlust using a claw-like weapon. His bloodlust is represented by an owl-like figure appearing before him to ask for a kill.
** [[spoiler:Snakes for the Erinyes. When one of them is talking with Bruce, more and more snakes appear around her. A snake hits the window during Bruce and Meredith's date, possibly to warn her. One of them is also able to turn a stove into a snake to attack Bruce. Tisiphone, one of the furies and the "Tormentor of Murderers" that plays a role as the front of the group and represents Meredith among Bruce's victims, is shown in the statue with a snake hair.]]

* {{Motif}}: Snakes and dogs as well as the Erinyes themselves. The film's first sequence centers on a sculpture of the Erinyes, showing their association with snakes and dogs. Later, Meredith sits in a gallery filled with famous paintings of the Erinyes. She and her two female friends mirror the Erinyes, who are three females, and one of her friends is wearing a dress covered in snakes. When Meredith meets Bruce by his car, a dog goes running past. Later, a snake appears outside the cabin. Later still, Bruce sees the same dog as before transforming into a woman-headed dog.

** Zigzagged with Bruce's broken skull. While Bruce does sometimes reel in pain when the wound is touched, he otherwise moves around without any seeming difficulty or pain through most of the film. He whips his head around and even presses his head against a door without any apparent discomfort. Even after [[spoiler:having a seizure due to hitting his head]], he remains perfectly mobile and unpainted]].

* {{Motif}}: Snakes and dogs as well as the Erinyes themselves. The film's first sequence centers on a sculpture of the Erinyes, showing their association with snakes and dogs. Later, Meredith sits in a gallery filled with paintings of the Erinyes. She and her two female friends mirror the Erinyes, who are three females, and one of her friends is wearing a dress covered in snakes. When Meredith meets Bruce by his car, a dog goes running past. Later, a snake appears outside the cabin. Later still, Bruce sees the same dog as before transforming into a woman-headed dog.
* NeverMyFault: [[spoiler:Bruce's fatal flaw. He swears that everything is fine now that the Erinyes have killed "The Owl" and that he will never do anything bad again, since that was the bad part of him. The Erinyes demand he admits his part in it, which he refuses to do, ending with him dead.]]

** Zigzagged with Bruce's broken skull. While Bruce does sometimes reel in pain when the wound is touched, he otherwise moves around without any seeming difficulty or pain through most of the film. He whips his head around and even presses his head against a door without any apparent discomfort. Even after [[spoiler:having a seizure due to hitting his head]], he remains perfectly mobile and unpained]].

** Zigzagged with Bruce's broken skull. While Bruce does sometimes reel in pain when the wound is touched, he otherwise moves around without any seeming difficulty of pain through most of the film. He whips his head around even even presses his head against a door without any apparent discomfort. Even after [[spoiler:having a seizure due to hitting his head]], he remains perfectly mobile and unpained]].

* GoodIsntNice: If the Erinyes really are tormenting Bruce to deliver divine justice, they scare the hell out of Meredith as well, possibly with the intention of helping her avoid falling into Bruce's clutches.

* FeministFantasy: Subtle, but there. The first half of the movie depicts a young woman, who survived an abusive relationship, now surviving an attempt on her life. [[spoiler:While the second act is about the three female Erinyes inflicting punishment upon Bruce for his crimes against women.]]

* IronicEcho: The movie starts with a scene of Bruce's latest victim on the ground of a living room, bleeding out and dying. [[spoiler:Act Two starts with a similar shot, but it's Bruce bleeding out on the floor now.]]

* ColorMotif: Red. Red is one of the most pronounced colors in the photography of the movie, with very saturated reds all through the movie. Red is also a color that adorns The Owl whenever it appears for Bruce. The movie has several shots heavy in red, like a shot of Bruce cutting pomegranates, and red items, like the red front door of the house, the red flags in the road, the couple's choice of red wine, red walls, a lot of blood, and [[spoiler:the dissecated Owl]].
* FeministFantasy: Subtle, but there. The first half of the movie depicts a young woman, who survived an abusive relationship, now surviving an attempt on her life. [[spoiler:While the second act is about the three female Erinyes inflincting punishment upon Bruce for his crimes against women.]]

** Meredith mentioning that her thesis on college was deconstructing the myth of the muse and the erasure of female artists. [[spoiler:The Muse can be seen as a reference here to Bruce's obsession with "taking things it finds beautiful", both artworks and women that he knows would never want to be with him.]]
** Pay attention to the statue of the Erinyes and notice that Tisiphone is depicted with a hair full of snakes and holding a torch, Alecto has a dog's head, and Megaera wears something like a horned helmet. [[spoiler:All these are elements on their actual appearance. Tisiphone has a strong snake motif and Alecto can turn into a dog. Megaera is completely covered with a mask. They also use a torch to torture Bruce.]]
** An early jumpscares show a woman with a strange mask showing up behind a glass that Meredith is looking at, her image overlaying the woman. [[spoiler:For the rest of the story, Tisiphone represents Meredith among Bruce's recent victims.]]
** The statue depicts a man cutting his own throat at the punishment of the Erinyes. [[spoiler:The movie ends with Bruce repeatedly slashing himself with his claw on the throat.]]

* HeroOfAnotherStory: [[spoiler:It's implied that Meredith has spend the night trying to survive the woods while Bruce was having his hallucinations or hauntings. When she returns at the end of the movie, she has fashioned new clothes from materials she found around and stopped her bleeding.]]

* NeverMyFault: [[spoiler:Bruce's fatal flaw. He swears that everything is fine now that the Erinyes have killed "The Owl", he will never do anything bad again, since that was the bad part of him, but they demand he admits his part on it, which he refuses, ending with him dead.]]
* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler:After the first attack, Meredith feings being killed before attacking Bruce with the statue of the Erinyes and escaping.]]
* {{Retraux}}: The movie is shot in a grainy way and saturated colors that is meant to emulate the 70s. That said, the movie is very strongly set in the modern era and hides nothing of the technology and trends of the time.

* AndShowItToYou: A variation. [[spoiler:During his talk with Tisiphone, Bruce claims that his actions are the fauly of an evil part within himself, rather than him. She asks him to show her, prompting him to touch on his wound and pick out a rubber duck. Tisiphone claims he is fucked and disappears, and Bruce is alone in a normal room, but looks down to see not a rubber duck, but a piece of his brain he picked out from the head wound left by Meredith.]]

* FeministFantasy: Subtle, but there. The first half of the movie depicts a young woman, who survived an abusive relationship, now surviving an attempt on her life. [[spoiler:While the second act is largely about the three female Erinyes inflincting punishment upon Bruce for his crimes against women.]]

* HeroOfAnotherStory: [[spoiler:It's heavily implied that Meredith has spend the night trying to survive the woods while Bruce was having his hallucinations or hauntings. When she returns at the end of the movie, she has fashioned new clothes from materials she found around and stopped her bleeding.]]

* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler:After the first attack, Meredith feings being killed before killing bruce with the statue of the Erinyes.]]

** [[spoiler:Snakes for the Erinyes. When one of them is talking with Bruce, more and more snakes appear around her. A snake hits the window during Bruce and Meredith's date, possibly to warn her. One of them is also able to turn a stove into a snake to attack Bruce.]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Meredith mentioning that her thesis on college was deconstructing the myth of the muse and the erasure of female artists. [[spoiler:The Muse can be seen as a reference here to Bruce's obsession with "taking things it finds beautiful", both artworks and women that he knows would never want to be with him.]]