History Film / Evil2003

* ViolenceReallyIsTheAnswer: The family-unfriendly message at the end is that violence was the answer to crush the GangOfBullies. Erik turns the other cheek for almost the entire movie, and his reward is to suffer horrific torture that ends with him nearly getting murdered, and his best friend Pierre is beaten to a pulp before leaving the school. However, once Erik does decide to start hurting people, he delivers an immensely satisfying beatdown to Dalen that ends in Dalen crawling out of the ring with a shattered nose. Just the ''threat'' of violence to Otto, whom Erik catches alone without his goon squad, results in Otto dropping to his knees and crying like a little girl before he pukes all over himself. Then at the end he goes home, tells his brutal stepfather that the stepfather has to leave the house, and then gives him a beating as well (offscreen).

Erik is a teenager in 1950s Sweden. His stepfather is a cruel and vicious man who beats him. Some time passes, and Erik grows into a troubled young man, regularly getting to fights at school as he takes the violence regularly inflicted on him out on others. He is expelled, with the headmaster at his school calling him "evil".

Erik is a teenager in 1950s Sweden. An early scene shows that his stepfather is a cruel and vicious man who beats him. Some time passes, Erik grows into his late teens, and the next scene shows him giving a brutal beating to a boy at his school, Erik now inflicting on others the violence regularly inflicted on him. He is expelled, with the headmaster at his school calling him "evil".

''Evil'' (Ondskan) is a 2003 film from Sweden directed by Mikael Håfström.

* BoardingSchoolOfHorrors: ''Jesus''. Sometimes, the sixth form students will take younger boys into the "ring", actually just a concrete square in the courtyard. There older bullies like Otto and Dalen will beat younger students to a pulp, while the other boys stand around in a circle screaming "FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!". Dahlen burns Erik with a cigarette. Otto and his goons throw a bucket of human waste into Erik and Pierre's room. It's entirely routine for the sixth form students to humiliate the younger students in the cafeteria by whacking them on the head with butter knives.

* DirtyCoward: Especially Otto. He breaks down in tears and pathetically begs for his life when Erik tracks him up in the forrest and he's alone with him with none of his friends to back him up. Erik's threats even makes Otto throw up out of fear.

* FauxAffablyEvil: Otto appears sophisticated and charming once Erik first arrives to the school. It doesn't take long before he shows the sadistic bully he really is.
* FreudianExcuse: DiscussedTrope. Pierre points out that it is possible people like Otto weren't necessarily born evil but that they became what they are because of abuse from their childhood.

* HypocriteHasAPoint: Otto pointing out that Erik always provoked him, while hypocritical, isn't completely untrue considering Erik's rebellious personality and that he arguably ''did'' make it worse by provoking Otto right back instead of atleast just ''trying'' to make peace.

* ImpairmentShot: The sixth form goons tie Erik down out in the open, soak him with water, and leave him there, presumably to freeze to death overnight. Erik is halfway to doing just that when he sees a blurry face above him. It's Marja, who saves him.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Otto attempts to invoke this when Erik [[spoiler: threatens to kill him in the middle of the forest]] by pointing out that he only bullied Erik and his friends because "''he'' always provoked him", but it falls flat as Otto started the whole conflict by abusing his high position and the fact that he was surrounded by his friends who could back him up to bully the weak and defenceless, and yet he is the one to say that ''he'' is the victim.

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: When reading [[spoiler: her good-bye letter]], Otto makes fun of the fact that Marja is from Finland and has trouble with Swedish grammar.

* {{Unishment}}: Most of the punishments that Otto and Dalen inflict on Erik are savage and cruel. But at one point they take away his weekend pass to go home...which allows him to hang out all weekend with beautiful Marja, the cafeteria worker. Before the week is over the two of them are kissing in the grove of trees.
* VillainousBreakdown: Otto becomes so scared of Erik that he actually vomits when the latter is alone with him and threatens to pay back for all the bullying he has done.

* VoiceoverLetter: The letter Pierre leaves behind for Erik, revealing that he can't take it anymore and has left the school.

** Erik reacts to the sixth form goons dumping a bucket of feces in his room by carefully scooping it all up into the bucket, sneaking into Otto's room, and dumping it on him. Otto starts puking on himself.
** At the end Otto's stark terror at facing Erik causes him to vomit all over himself.

* EvilTeacher: Melander. He's not much of an antagonist, but despite the novel taking place after the events of World War 2, he is a believer in National Socialism and during his lessions in racial biology he praises the Germanic ethnicity and even condemns Pierre for his southern-European characteristics.

* FreudianExcuse: DiscussedTrope. Pierre points out thet it is possible people like Otto wern't necessarily born evil but that they became what they are because of abuse from their childhood.

** The GangOfBullies, particularly Otto and Dahlén, are shown to be nothing but sadistic sociopaths who abuses their high position to bully the weak. And they arent shown to have any redeeming qualities as well.

* SchoolOfHardKnocks: Students beat the everloving crap out of each other in vicious organized fights, and the administration does not care.

** Erik reacts to the sixth form goons dumping a bucket of feces in his room by carefully scooping it all up into the bucket, sneaking into Dalen's room, and dumping it on him. Dalen starts puking on himself.

* EvilTeacher: Melander. He's not much of an antagonist, but despite the novel taking place after the events of [[==WW==]]2, he is a believer in National Socialism and during his lessions in racial biology he praises the Germanic ethnicity and even condemns Pierre for his southern-European characteristics.

* EvilTeacher: Melander. He's not much of an antagonist, but despite the novel taking place after the events of [==WW==]2, he is a believer in National Socialism and during his lessions in racial biology he praises the Germanic ethnicity and even condemns Pierre for his southern-European characteristics.

* EvilTeacher: Melander. He's not much of an antagonist, but despite the novel taking place after the events of [[=WW=]]2, he is a believer in National Socialism and during his lessions in racial biology he praises the Germanic ethnicity and even condemns Pierre for his southern-European characteristics.

* EvilTeacher: Melander. He's not much of an antagonist, but despite the novel taking place after the events of WW2, he is a believer in National Socialism and during his lessions in racial biology he praises the Germanic ethnicity and even condemns Pierre for his southern-European characteristics.

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: When reading [[spoiler: her good-bye letter]], Otto makes fun of the fact that Marja is from Finland.

* DirtyCoward: Especially Otto. He breaks down in tears and pathetically begs for his life when Erik tracks him up in the forrest and he's alone with him with none of his friends to back him up. Erik's threats even makes Otto through up out of fear.

* BigBadEnsemble: [[TheBully Otto Silverhielm]] and [[WickedStepfather Erik's step-father]].

** The GangOfBullies, particularly Otto and Dahlén, are shown to be nothing but sadistic cowards who abuses their high position to bully the weak. And they arent shown to have any redeeming qualities as well.

* FreudanExcuse: DiscussedTrope. Pierre points out thet it is possible people like Otto wern't necessarily born evil but that they became what they are because of abuse from their childhood.

* AdultsAreUseless: The teachers at the prep school are shockingly indifferent to the torture, beatings, and violence going on under their noses. In one scene Otto is pounding away at Erik's face until Erik is drenched with blood and both Otto and the walls are splattered with it. Marja screams, which finally rouses the headmaster, who ambles into the cafeteria and tells Otto to knock it off. And that's all that he does.

* TitleDrop: The headmaster at Erik's school says "There's only one word for people like you, and that is 'evil'."