History Film / Downsizing

* DisabledLoveInterest: [[spoiler: The one legged Lan Tran eventually hooks up with Paul.]]

* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Ultimately [[SubvertedTrope subverted]]. Paul is brooding because his marriage failed and his life in Leisureland is much less pleasant than expected. He meets Ngoc Lan Tran, an upbeat and wacky girl, who is always full of energy in spite of the hardship she experienced. [[spoiler:Finally, they fall in love with each other.]] However, unlike the typical example of the trope, Ngoc is a person with independent needs and desires of her own, as she makes clear in the third act.

* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Paul is brooding because his marriage failed and his life in Leisureland is much less pleasant than expected. He meets Ngoc Lan Tran, an upbeat and wacky girl, who is always full of energy in spite of the hardship she experienced. [[spoiler:Finally, they fall in love with each other.]]

** Konrad jokes that Little Ronni will contract syphilis due to his AnythingThatMoves lifestyle. At the end of the film Ronni is seen with a big sore on his mouth, an early sign of it.

* TrailersAlwaysLie:
** The trailers implied that Paul's mind-numbing telemarketing job is what inspires him to undergo the procedure, but in the movie it's actually a job he's forced to take afterwards, when downsizing doesn't provide the life of luxury he expected.
** The trailers also show Paul and his friends tapping a bottle of Absolut vodka like it's a keg. [[spoiler: This never happens, but Dušan does transport several bottles of Absolut (among other things) to the colony in Norway near the end of the film.]]

* AluminumChristmasTrees: Many audience members were appalled by Ngoc Lan Tran's accent, claiming it was a racist caricature. As both linguists and the actress herself have noted though, it’s actually a very accurate heavy Vietnamese accent, which would be expected of a recent immigrant. Many have also argued that the inability of some critics to see anything about the character beyond the accent is indicative of their own bias. Hong Chau, the actress, is herself the daughter of Vietnamese immigrants with an accent of this kind.

''Downsizing'' is a 2017 science fiction and social satire movie directed by Creator/AlexanderPayne. It stars Creator/MattDamon, Creator/KristenWiig, Creator/ChristophWaltz, Hong Chau, Creator/LauraDern, Rolf Lassgård and Creator/UdoKier.

* ArtisticLicensePhysics: Downsizing should either make you freeze to death as all your body heat is lost, or leave you with the metabolism and eating habits of similar sized creatures. Also, the apparent net loss of mass should result in an equal gain in light and thermal energy in the downsizing chamber.

* BaldWomen: Everyone needs to be shaved before they are downsized. Audrey backed out of the procedure after they had finished with her head and one eyebrow.

* GoOutWithASmile: Lan Tran's friend dies with a huge smile on her face due to being high on painkillers.

* RealityEnsues: Downsizing is sold as utopia where everyone lives in relative wealth due to small things being cheaper, but that doesn't mean wealth inequality doesn't still exist. Indeed, once the big money runs out, people find themselves working the same kind of jobs they used to with their pays scaled smaller.