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* BlasphemousBoast: [[spoiler:In the finale after they go to Church and listen to the preacher discussing Abraham and Isaac, Avery starts ranting about the real meaning of that parable and identifies with Abraham. His wife Lou, frightened at the implication that Avery wants to kill his son, tries to remind him that God stopped Abraham from killing Isaac. To which Avery shuts the Bible with force and yells]]:

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* BlasphemousBoast: [[spoiler:In the finale after they go to Church and listen to the preacher discussing Abraham and Isaac, Avery Ed starts ranting about the real meaning of that parable and identifies with Abraham. His wife Lou, frightened at the implication that Avery wants to kill his son, tries to remind him that God stopped Abraham from killing Isaac. To Isaac, to which Avery Ed shuts the Bible with force and yells]]:
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* MoodDissonance: The film takes place in bright interiors and daylight, but it gets progressively more and more disturbing as Avery gets crazier and crazier. The finale, where [[spoiler:whereAvery tries to kill his son]] takes place in broad daylight.

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* MoodDissonance: The film takes place in bright interiors and daylight, but it gets progressively more and more disturbing as Avery gets crazier and crazier. The finale, where [[spoiler:whereAvery [[spoiler:where Avery tries to kill his son]] takes place in broad daylight.
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* BlasphemousBoast: [[spoiler:In the finale after they go to Church and listen to the preacher discussing Abraham and Isaac, Avery starts ranting about the real meaning of that parable and identifies with Abraham. His wife Lou, frightened at the implication that Avery wants to kill his son, tries to remind him that God stopped Abraham from killing Isaac. To which, Avery shuts the Bible with force and yells]]:

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* BlasphemousBoast: [[spoiler:In the finale after they go to Church and listen to the preacher discussing Abraham and Isaac, Avery starts ranting about the real meaning of that parable and identifies with Abraham. His wife Lou, frightened at the implication that Avery wants to kill his son, tries to remind him that God stopped Abraham from killing Isaac. To which, which Avery shuts the Bible with force and yells]]:



* UnbuiltTrope: ''Bigger Than Life'' is one of many films made in TheFifties that cast a darker light on some of the obsessions of that decade: the suburban "keeping up with the Joneses" mentality (here shown as an attempt by a family straining themselves and living beyond their means), ConspicuousConsumption, and the NuclearFamily (which descends into the father becoming a tyrant of the home). Moreover it deals with prescription drug abuse far before it became a major public issue in American society.

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* UnbuiltTrope: ''Bigger Than Life'' is one of many films made in TheFifties that cast a darker light on some of the obsessions of that decade: the suburban "keeping up with the Joneses" mentality (here shown as an attempt by a family straining themselves and living beyond their means), ConspicuousConsumption, and the NuclearFamily (which descends into the father becoming a tyrant of the home). Moreover Moreover, it deals with prescription drug abuse far long before it became a major public issue in American society.

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