History Film / InfinityPool

James W. Foster (Skarsgard) is a struggling author who wrote one novel six years ago and has been stuck with writer's block ever since. Hoping for inspiration, he and his wife Em (Cleopatra Coleman) take a vacation to a fancy resort in the country of Li Tolqa and run into a woman named Gabi (Creator/MiaGoth), a beautiful fan of his book. Gabi convinces the pair to make a short excursion outside of the resort in spite of the country's dangerous reputation. When tragedy strikes their escapade, Foster finds himself drawn into an unexpected world of hedonism, violence and horror.

* OriginalPositionFallacy: James happily takes advantage of Li Tolqa's customs so that he can get away with committing heinous crimes by simply paying to have a clone die for him. He forgets, however, that he won't always be the perpetrator of crimes -- sometimes he'll be the ''victim''. This comes back to bite him when he finally tries to leave, only for Gabi and her gang to violently attack the bus taking him to the airport, secure in the knowledge that they won't suffer any consequences beyond a fine for doing whatever they have to do in order to drag James off the bus and force him to remain in Li Tolqa.

* BeingEvilSucks: Despite all the debauchery they get up to [[spoiler: and the fact they [[KarmaHoudini get away with it all]]]], Gabi's clique and especially James don't actually seem to be having much fun. They treat each other horribly, they constantly goad each other into more dangerous extremes (after all, the doubling process does nothing for the bullet wound in Alban's leg), and the end of the movie makes it clear that they're cut off from the rest of humanity and totally alone.

* CloningBlues: James's clones are used as sacrifices so that he can keep doing whatever horrible things he feels like doing.

* DoubleMeaningTitle: ''Infinity Pool'' is a type of luxury hotel swimming pool that gives off the illusion of merging with the ocean and also a reference to the [[CloningBlues "doubling" process]] that requires individuals to stand in a large pool of colorful fluids in order to create the doppelgänger. Furthermore, as long as one has the money, you have an otherwise ''infinite'' pool of clones at your disposal.

* OnlySaneMan: Em serves as the ineffectual voice of reason throughout the film. She discourages James from taking them out of the resort, calls him out on his strange reaction to the execution of his double, and is insistent on returning home as quickly as possible.

* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Basically everybody. James is allowed to return home to his wife, life, and wealth, and is invited by the others to come back and do it all again next year.]]

!! This film contains examples of:

* AllCrimesAreEqual: Just about every crime in Li Tolga is punishable by execution, to the point that Gabi's group quip that they're surprised anyone is left in the country.

* IChooseToStay: [[SubvertedTrope The bleakest possible version.]] [[spoiler: James stays in Li Tolqa when he [[HeelRealization realizes]] that he can’t return to a normal life after the horrible things he was involved in, but he’s not happy about it ''at all.'']]
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Basically everybody. James is allowed to return home to his wife, life, and wealth, and is invited by the others to come back and do it all again next year.]]

** The mass execution scene, [[spoiler: taking place as it does from the clones' point of view]], emphasizes how Gabi and her friends ''should'' be able to empathize with the clones' terror and pain, since the clones are effectively the same people they are. But they just applaud the show.

* {{Mondegreen}}: As they’re waking up, Em hears James asking her if she wants to eat breakfast as “you can’t feed yourself with white-sand brain death”.

* SanitySlippage: James is so broken by beating one of his clones to death that he [[spoiler: takes up Gabi's offer on letting her ''breastfeed'' him. ''[[FanDisservice Right after covering her nipple with his own blood]].'']]

James W. Foster (Skarsgard) is a struggling author who wrote one novel six years ago and has been stuck with writer's block ever since. Hoping for inspiration, he and his wife Em (Cleopatra Coleman) take a vacation to a fancy resort in the country of Li Tolqa and run into a woman named Gabi (Creator/MiaGoth), a beautiful fan of his book. Gabi convinces the pair to make a short excursion outside of the resort in spite of the country's dangerous reputation. When tragedy strikes their escapade, Foster is finds himself drawn into an unexpected world of hedonism, violence and horror.

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: James and Em are established to not be on the same page in the first few scenes. When they wake up together, Em mishears him and thinks he said gibberish. Later, she decides to spend the day without him and leaves the table with even saying goodbye.

* KickTheDog: Near the conclusion, [[spoiler:Gabi mockingly explains that all of her interactions with James have been to toy with him and laugh at him behind his back. In particular near the end Gabi reads off negative reviews of James's previous book to him as they force him to walk.]].

* LaughingMad: Gabi while forcing James out of the bus at gunpoint, even taunting him by calling him "JAMESY" in a loud childish voice.

* MayDecemberRomance: Gabi is clearly much younger than her husband. There is a seventeen-year gap between the actors' ages.

* PrivilegeMakesYouEvil: The characters we follow throughout the film flaunt their ability to commit whatever crimes they want- after all, they can simply pay the cloning fee to avoid any sort of punishment. The film makes it quite apparent that those without exorbitant amounts of cash do not have this luxury, and that the tourists would not engage in this behaviour if they couldn't get away with it.
* PunchClockVillain: When away from the influence of Li Tolqa, the group are otherwise perfectly normal people with average lives, aside from being very wealthy. The final scene even has them on the bus ride to the airport happily discussing mundane things like their pets and Gabi's habit of rearranging and cleaning her house when bored.