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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Jake is a completely amoral bastard who is almost always drunk, unconcerned about his family’s budget and survival, beats and rapes Beth, and nearly beats Grace at one point. However, even he is badly shaken by [[spoiler Grace's suicide]], and [[spoiler:beats Uncle Bully to a bloody pulp in a blind rage when he finds out he raped her.]]
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Jake is a completely amoral bastard who is almost always drunk, unconcerned about his family’s budget and survival, beats and rapes Beth, and nearly beats Grace at one point. However, even he is badly shaken by [[spoiler Grace's [[spoiler:Grace's suicide]], and [[spoiler:beats Uncle Bully to a bloody pulp in a blind rage when he finds out he raped her.]]
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* AllegedCar: Beth and her remaining family [[spoiler: drive away from Jake]] in one at the end. It takes about ten seconds before it even starts up.
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* AllegedCar: Beth and her remaining family [[spoiler: drive [[spoiler:drive away from Jake]] in one at the end. It takes about ten seconds before it even starts up.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: Uncle Bully is usually polite and rather nice, especially when compared to Jake. He never shouts and is nice to Grace [[spoiler: before raping her]].
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: Uncle Bully is usually polite and rather nice, especially when compared to Jake. He never shouts and is nice to Grace [[spoiler: before [[spoiler:before raping her]].
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* DrivenToSuicide: Poor [[spoiler: Grace]] ends up hanging herself on a clothing line tied to a tree after [[spoiler: her rape at the hands of Uncle Bully.]]
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* DrivenToSuicide: Poor [[spoiler: Grace]] [[spoiler:Grace]] ends up hanging herself on a clothing line tied to a tree after [[spoiler: her [[spoiler:her rape at the hands of Uncle Bully.]]
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* EmpathyDollShot: When [[spoiler: Uncle Bully comes in to rape Grace]], there’s an overturned teddy bear lying near the door.
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* EmpathyDollShot: When [[spoiler: Uncle [[spoiler:Uncle Bully comes in to rape Grace]], there’s an overturned teddy bear lying near the door.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Jake is a completely amoral bastard who is almost always drunk, unconcerned about his family’s budget and survival, beats and rapes Beth, and nearly beats Grace at one point. However, even he is badly shaken by [[spoiler: Grace's suicide]], and [[spoiler: beats Uncle Bully to a bloody pulp in a blind rage when he finds out he raped her.]]
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Jake is a completely amoral bastard who is almost always drunk, unconcerned about his family’s budget and survival, beats and rapes Beth, and nearly beats Grace at one point. However, even he is badly shaken by [[spoiler: [[spoiler Grace's suicide]], and [[spoiler: beats [[spoiler:beats Uncle Bully to a bloody pulp in a blind rage when he finds out he raped her.]]
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: At one point, the family stops by the road and Beth points out [[spoiler: a cemetery where her ancestors are buried...]]
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* HopeSpot: The moment after [[spoiler: Beth is savagely beaten and raped by Jake]] has them seemingly re-unite and go to family picnic, before drunkenness and beatings continue.
* HowDareYouDieOnMe: Beth does this [[spoiler: over Grace’s body]].
* HowDareYouDieOnMe: Beth does this [[spoiler: over Grace’s body]].
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* HopeSpot: The moment after [[spoiler: Beth [[spoiler:Beth is savagely beaten and raped by Jake]] has them seemingly re-unite and go to family picnic, before drunkenness and beatings continue.
* HowDareYouDieOnMe: Beth does this[[spoiler: over [[spoiler:over Grace’s body]].
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* MamaBear: Beth. Especially after [[spoiler: Grace's [[spoiler:race's death]].
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* OnlySaneWoman: Grace seems to be the only one who realises how bad things are for them and attempts to do something positive for her siblings. [[spoiler: it doesn’t work out well for her.]]
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* OnlySaneWoman: Grace seems to be the only one who realises how bad things are for them and attempts to do something positive for her siblings. [[spoiler: it [[spoiler:It doesn’t work out well for her.]]
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* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Child rape certainly is, as [[spoiler: Grace is driven to suicide because of it]] and the perpetrator is called out on it and beaten to bloody pulp. However, Beth’s rape at the hands of Jake is not treated as anything different from the regular abuse she endures at the hands of Jake and when she forgives him for it, the film no longer comes back to it again.
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* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Child rape certainly is, as [[spoiler: Grace [[spoiler:Grace is driven to suicide because of it]] and the perpetrator is called out on it and beaten to bloody pulp. However, Beth’s rape at the hands of Jake is not treated as anything different from the regular abuse she endures at the hands of Jake and when she forgives him for it, the film no longer comes back to it again.
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* SoundtrackDissonance: “What have you done to my baby” is played by Jake and his friends when outside [[spoiler: Grace goes to kill herself.]]
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* SoundtrackDissonance: “What have you done to my baby” is played by Jake and his friends when outside [[spoiler: Grace [[spoiler:Grace goes to kill herself.]]
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* VillainousBreakdown: Jake finally undergoes one when [[spoiler: Grace hangs herself]], unable to hit Beth when directly confronted by her and reduced to smashing furniture and pointlessly attempting to chop down a tree.
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* VillainousBreakdown: Jake finally undergoes one when [[spoiler: Grace [[spoiler:Grace hangs herself]], unable to hit Beth when directly confronted by her and reduced to smashing furniture and pointlessly attempting to chop down a tree.
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* BadassGrandpa: The instructor in the traditional Maori ways is at least 50 and he easily takes a stick from Jake and does some pretty impressive martial arts with it.
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* BadassGrandpa: The instructor in the traditional Maori ways is at least 50 and he easily takes a stick from Jake Boogie and does some pretty impressive martial arts with it.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Jake is a completely amoral bastard who is almost always drunk, unconcerned about his family’s budget and survival, beats and rapes Beth, and nearly beats Grace at one point. However, even he finds it too far that [[spoiler: Bully has raped Grace]] and beats the bloody pulp out of him.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Jake is a completely amoral bastard who is almost always drunk, unconcerned about his family’s budget and survival, beats and rapes Beth, and nearly beats Grace at one point. However, even he finds it too far that is badly shaken by [[spoiler: Grace's suicide]], and [[spoiler: beats Uncle Bully has raped Grace]] and beats the to a bloody pulp in a blind rage when he finds out of him. he raped her.]]
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* AbusiveParents: Jake, so very much.
* BestFriend: Dooley to Jake, Mavis to Beth, Toot to Grace.
* TheCaretaker: Grace consoling her younger siblings as they cry listening to Jake beating up Beth.
* EightiesHair: Mavis has some pretty big, puffy curls.
* FantasyForbiddingFather: Jake, who criticises Grace for always writing stories. Towards the end of the film he even rips her diary in half.
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* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Played straight with Grace and Boogie. Grace is the older of the pair, is responsible and stays out of trouble. Younger brother Boogie smokes, runs with gangs, and is apparently no stranger to the police.
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* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Played straight with Grace and Boogie. Grace is the older of the pair, is responsible and stays out of trouble. Younger brother Boogie smokes, runs with gangs, and is apparently no stranger to the police.
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* KissKissSlap: Grace does not react well to getting a surprise kiss from Toot.
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* WorkoutFanservice: It's short, but in the start of the film Nig and his buddies are shown working out in an improvised gym.
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* CoolBigSis: Grace to her younger siblings.
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* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Played straight with Grace and Boogie. Grace is the older of the pair, is responsible and stays out of trouble. Younger brother Boogie smokes, runs with gangs, and is apparently no stranger to the police.
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* MamaBear: Beth. Especially after [[spoiler: Grace's death]].
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Due to its success it became something of an icon for the New Zealand film industry of the 90s, creating a number of persistent NZ [[MemeticMutation cultural memes]] and adding to the cult status of TemueraMorrison.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: At one point, the family stops by the road and Beth points out a cemetery where her ancestors are buried...
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: At one point, the family stops by the road and Beth points out a cemetery where her ancestors are buried...
-->'''Grace:''' I'd love to go see them.\\
'''Beth:''' Not before me, you don't.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: At one point, the family stops by the road and Beth points out a cemetery where her ancestors are buried...
-->'''Grace:''' I'd love to go see them.\\
'''Beth:''' Not before me, you don't.
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* DepartmentofChildDisservices: The hapless social worker who visits the Hekes. Subverted in that Boogie actually ''does'' get better after being taken away.
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* DepartmentofChildDisservices: DepartmentOfChildDisservices: The hapless social worker who visits the Hekes. Subverted in that Boogie actually ''does'' get better after being taken away.
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* MoodWhiplash: Nearly every scene of beating is preceded and almost immediately followed by bikes, sunglasses and other superficial cool.
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* MoodWhiplash: Nearly every scene of beating is preceded and almost immediately followed by bikes, sunglasses and other superficial cool.superficially cool thing.
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* WildTeenParty: Jake tends to invite everyone from the pub back to his house on a nightly basis.
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* VictimBlaming: Jake is completely unashamed to blame Beth for everything he does to her, including savagely beating her after she refuses to cook for his guests and then raping her.
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* DieChairDie: While Grace's funeral is going on, Jake is sitting in the pub. A song he'd been singing along to with his family (See EarWorm) earlier in the film comes on and Jake becomes so enraged that he grabs a bar stool and puts it through the jukebox.
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* DieChairDie: While Grace's funeral is going on, Jake is sitting in the pub. A song he'd been singing along to with his family (See EarWorm) earlier in the film comes on and Jake becomes so enraged that he grabs a bar stool and puts it through the jukebox.
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Based on the [[TheFilmOfTheBook novel]] by Alan Duff, ''OnceWereWarriors'' is a 1994 film set in UsefulNotes/NewZealand and dealing with the trials of a dysfunctional working-class Maori family. It was famous on its release as a result of its hard-hitting depiction of low-life, abuse and poverty among poor urban Maori (something of a hot-button issue in New Zealand).
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Based on the [[TheFilmOfTheBook novel]] by Alan Duff, ''OnceWereWarriors'' ''Once Were Warriors'' is a 1994 film set in UsefulNotes/NewZealand and dealing with the trials of a dysfunctional working-class Maori family. It was famous on its release as a result of its hard-hitting depiction of low-life, abuse and poverty among poor urban Maori (something of a hot-button issue in New Zealand).
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* TheAlcoholic - Both Jake and Beth.
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* AwesomeButImpractical - Jake beats on a guy who he claims has done "all weights, no speedball".
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* BeautyIsNeverTarnished : One of the most dramatic aversions in cinema. After Jake brutally beats and rapes Beth, she looks it.
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* CurbStompBattle - Every fight Jake gets into.
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* {{Diary}} - Grace keeps one, and Beth later finds it.
* DieChairDie - While Grace's funeral is going on, Jake is sitting in the pub. A song he'd been singing along to with his family (See EarWorm) earlier in the film comes on and Jake becomes so enraged that he grabs a bar stool and puts it through the jukebox.
* DomesticAbuse - Jake abuses Beth (and, presumably, the children) regularly. Also inverts the trope BeautyIsNeverTarnished, as poor Beth's face looks like it's been rearranged after one of Jake's benders.
* DrivenToSuicide - Poor [[spoiler: Grace]] ends up hanging herself on a clothing line tied to a tree after [[spoiler: her rape at the hands of Uncle Bully.]]
* DieChairDie - While Grace's funeral is going on, Jake is sitting in the pub. A song he'd been singing along to with his family (See EarWorm) earlier in the film comes on and Jake becomes so enraged that he grabs a bar stool and puts it through the jukebox.
* DomesticAbuse - Jake abuses Beth (and, presumably, the children) regularly. Also inverts the trope BeautyIsNeverTarnished, as poor Beth's face looks like it's been rearranged after one of Jake's benders.
* DrivenToSuicide - Poor [[spoiler: Grace]] ends up hanging herself on a clothing line tied to a tree after [[spoiler: her rape at the hands of Uncle Bully.]]
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* {{Diary}} - {{Diary}}: Grace keeps one, and Beth later finds it.
*DieChairDie - DieChairDie: While Grace's funeral is going on, Jake is sitting in the pub. A song he'd been singing along to with his family (See EarWorm) earlier in the film comes on and Jake becomes so enraged that he grabs a bar stool and puts it through the jukebox.
*DomesticAbuse - DomesticAbuse: Jake abuses Beth (and, presumably, the children) regularly. Also inverts the trope BeautyIsNeverTarnished, as poor Beth's face looks like it's been rearranged after one of Jake's benders.
*DrivenToSuicide - DrivenToSuicide: Poor [[spoiler: Grace]] ends up hanging herself on a clothing line tied to a tree after [[spoiler: her rape at the hands of Uncle Bully.]]
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* EroticEating : Beth and the seafood.
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* FreudianExcuse: at one point Jake seems to justify his actions by saying that he comes from a long line of slaves. Given what he does in the film, no-one buys it.
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* HellBentForLeather - The Toa Aotearoa members, as befits what is effectively a biker gang.
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* WildTeenParty - Jake tends to invite everyone from the pub back to his house on a nightly basis.
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''OnceWereWarriors'' is a 1994 film set in UsefulNotes/NewZealand and dealing with the trials of a dysfunctional working-class Maori family. It was famous on its release as a result of its hard-hitting depiction of low-life, abuse and poverty among poor urban Maori (something of a hot-button issue in New Zealand).
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Based on the [[TheFilmOfTheBook novel]] by Alan Duff, ''OnceWereWarriors'' is a 1994 film set in UsefulNotes/NewZealand and dealing with the trials of a dysfunctional working-class Maori family. It was famous on its release as a result of its hard-hitting depiction of low-life, abuse and poverty among poor urban Maori (something of a hot-button issue in New Zealand).
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* TheAlcoholic - Jake and Beth both
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* AbusiveParents: Jake, so very much.
* TheAlcoholic - Both Jake and Beth.
* AllegedCar: Bethbothand her remaining family [[spoiler: drive away from Jake]] in one at the end. It takes about ten seconds before it even starts up.
* AtomicFBomb: Jake to Beth, when she stops having sex with him early on.
--> '''Jake''':''"FUUUUCK YOU!"''
* TheAlcoholic - Both Jake and Beth.
* AllegedCar: Beth
* AtomicFBomb: Jake to Beth, when she stops having sex with him early on.
--> '''Jake''':''"FUUUUCK YOU!"''
* BadassGrandpa: The instructor in the traditional Maori ways is at least 50 and he easily takes a stick from Jake and does some pretty impressive martial arts with it.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Uncle Bully is usually polite and rather nice, especially when compared to Jake. He never shouts and is nice to Grace [[spoiler: before raping her]].
* CallingTheOldManOut: Nig ultimately manages to do this after he’s been fully initiated into the Toa Aotearoa gang. When Jake attempts to hit Beth for the last time, he catches his arm and stands up to him.
* CoolShades: Beth sports them at the end during the funeral to show that she has finally become tough and independent.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Uncle Bully is usually polite and rather nice, especially when compared to Jake. He never shouts and is nice to Grace [[spoiler: before raping her]].
* CallingTheOldManOut: Nig ultimately manages to do this after he’s been fully initiated into the Toa Aotearoa gang. When Jake attempts to hit Beth for the last time, he catches his arm and stands up to him.
* CoolShades: Beth sports them at the end during the funeral to show that she has finally become tough and independent.
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* DepartmentofChildDisservices: The hapless social worker who visits the Hekes.
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* HellBentForLeather - Most of the male cast.
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy : Varying examples.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil - More than one example - crosses with VictimBlaming (and how)
* EroticEating : Beth and the seafood.
* FacialMarkings - Nig
* TheFilmOfTheBook
* HellBentForLeather - Most of the male cast.
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy : Varying examples.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil - More than one example - crosses with VictimBlaming (and how)
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* DrivenToSuicide
DrivenToSuicide - Poor [[spoiler: Grace]] ends up hanging herself on a clothing line tied to a tree after [[spoiler: her rape at the hands of Uncle Bully.]]
* EmpathyDollShot: When [[spoiler: Uncle Bully comes in to rape Grace]], there’s an overturned teddy bear lying near the door.
* EroticEating : Beth and theseafood.seafood.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Jake is a completely amoral bastard who is almost always drunk, unconcerned about his family’s budget and survival, beats and rapes Beth, and nearly beats Grace at one point. However, even he finds it too far that [[spoiler: Bully has raped Grace]] and beats the bloody pulp out of him.
*FacialMarkings - Nig
FacialMarkings: Nig gets half of his face patched with dark green markings after getting fully initiated into the Toa Aotearoa gang.
*TheFilmOfTheBook
FanDisservice: The long, protracted kissing between Jake and Beth early on, which seems to be intentionally filmed in the most unappealing way possible.
* FreudianExcuse: at one point Jake seems to justify his actions by saying that he comes from a long line of slaves. Given what he does in the film, no-one buys it.
* TheFilmOfTheBook:
* HellBentForLeather -Most of The Toa Aotearoa members, as befits what is effectively a biker gang.
* HopeSpot: The moment after [[spoiler: Beth is savagely beaten and raped by Jake]] has them seemingly re-unite and go to family picnic, before drunkenness and beatings continue.
* HowDareYouDieOnMe: Beth does this [[spoiler: over Grace’s body]].
* LightningBruiser: Jake is one in bar fights. Early on in themale cast.
film, he beats up a guy who is bigger than him by being faster and attacking first, going for the head before he realised what happened.
* MaritalRapeLicense: Jake seems to believe in it and acts on it after one drunk party. Disturbingly, Beth believes in it, too, as she takes advice from her friend “Just keep your mouth shut and your legs open.”
* MoodWhiplash: Nearly every scene of beating is preceded and almost immediately followed by bikes, sunglasses and other superficial cool.
* ObviouslyEvil: Did anyone really expect a character called Uncle Bully to be good?
* OnlySaneWoman: Grace seems to be the only one who realises how bad things are for them and attempts to do something positive for her siblings. [[spoiler: it doesn’t work out well for her.]]
* PoliceAreUseless: The police let Jake get away with his violence in the bar for an awful lot of time before he’s finally arrested.
* PrecisionFStrike: Just stay out of my fucking way!”
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy : Varyingexamples.
examples.
*RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil - More than RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Child rape certainly is, as [[spoiler: Grace is driven to suicide because of it]] and the perpetrator is called out on it and beaten to bloody pulp. However, Beth’s rape at the hands of Jake is not treated as anything different from the regular abuse she endures at the hands of Jake and when she forgives him for it, the film no longer comes back to it again.
* SirSwearsALot: Jake Heke. The F-word is said 93 times throughout the film, nearly always by him.
* SoundtrackDissonance: “What have you done to my baby” is played by Jake and his friends when outside [[spoiler: Grace goes to kill herself.]]
** Pretty much every time someone is beaten a cool guitar riff is played.
* TheStoner: Toot is a rather typical one. It says a lot that he is oneexample - crosses with VictimBlaming (and how)of the better characters in the film.
* TitleDrop: Beth to Jake at the end: ''Our people once were warriors. And not like you, Jake.''
* VictimBlaming: Jake is completely unashamed to blame Beth for everything he does to her, including savagely beating her after she refuses to cook for his guests and then raping her.
* VillainousBreakdown: Jake finally undergoes one when [[spoiler: Grace hangs herself]], unable to hit Beth when directly confronted by her and reduced to smashing furniture and pointlessly attempting to chop down a tree.
* EmpathyDollShot: When [[spoiler: Uncle Bully comes in to rape Grace]], there’s an overturned teddy bear lying near the door.
* EroticEating : Beth and the
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Jake is a completely amoral bastard who is almost always drunk, unconcerned about his family’s budget and survival, beats and rapes Beth, and nearly beats Grace at one point. However, even he finds it too far that [[spoiler: Bully has raped Grace]] and beats the bloody pulp out of him.
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* FreudianExcuse: at one point Jake seems to justify his actions by saying that he comes from a long line of slaves. Given what he does in the film, no-one buys it.
* TheFilmOfTheBook:
* HellBentForLeather -
* HopeSpot: The moment after [[spoiler: Beth is savagely beaten and raped by Jake]] has them seemingly re-unite and go to family picnic, before drunkenness and beatings continue.
* HowDareYouDieOnMe: Beth does this [[spoiler: over Grace’s body]].
* LightningBruiser: Jake is one in bar fights. Early on in the
* MaritalRapeLicense: Jake seems to believe in it and acts on it after one drunk party. Disturbingly, Beth believes in it, too, as she takes advice from her friend “Just keep your mouth shut and your legs open.”
* MoodWhiplash: Nearly every scene of beating is preceded and almost immediately followed by bikes, sunglasses and other superficial cool.
* ObviouslyEvil: Did anyone really expect a character called Uncle Bully to be good?
* OnlySaneWoman: Grace seems to be the only one who realises how bad things are for them and attempts to do something positive for her siblings. [[spoiler: it doesn’t work out well for her.]]
* PoliceAreUseless: The police let Jake get away with his violence in the bar for an awful lot of time before he’s finally arrested.
* PrecisionFStrike: Just stay out of my fucking way!”
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy : Varying
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* SirSwearsALot: Jake Heke. The F-word is said 93 times throughout the film, nearly always by him.
* SoundtrackDissonance: “What have you done to my baby” is played by Jake and his friends when outside [[spoiler: Grace goes to kill herself.]]
** Pretty much every time someone is beaten a cool guitar riff is played.
* TheStoner: Toot is a rather typical one. It says a lot that he is one
* TitleDrop: Beth to Jake at the end: ''Our people once were warriors. And not like you, Jake.''
* VictimBlaming: Jake is completely unashamed to blame Beth for everything he does to her, including savagely beating her after she refuses to cook for his guests and then raping her.
* VillainousBreakdown: Jake finally undergoes one when [[spoiler: Grace hangs herself]], unable to hit Beth when directly confronted by her and reduced to smashing furniture and pointlessly attempting to chop down a tree.
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* WretchedHive: The whole area where Hekes and other Maori live is a ruined industrial wasteland. Film intentionally begins with a shot of the lush, green trees surrounding a calm, beautiful lake, then zooms out to show it’s nothing more than a billboard.
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* DepartmentofChildDisservices: The hapless social worker who visits the Hekes.
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* HeyItsThatGuy : Cliff Curtis plays the aptly named Bully.
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* HeyItsThatGuy ProudWarriorRaceGuy : Cliff Curtis plays the aptly named Bully.Varying examples.
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* DomesticAbuse - Jake abuses Beth (and, presumably, the children) regularly.
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* DomesticAbuse - Jake abuses Beth (and, presumably, the children) regularly. Also inverts the trope BeautyIsNeverTarnished, as poor Beth's face looks like it's been rearranged after one of Jake's benders.
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* HeyItsThatGuy : Cliff Curtis plays the aptly named Bully.
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''OnceWereWarriors'' is a 1994 film set in NewZealand and dealing with the trials of a dysfunctional working-class Maori family. It was famous on its release as a result of its hard-hitting depiction of low-life, abuse and poverty among poor urban Maori (something of a hot-button issue in NewZealand).
Due to its success it became something of an icon for the NewZealand film industry of the 90s, creating a number of persistent NZ [[MemeticMutation cultural memes]] and adding to the cult status of TemueraMorrison.
Due to its success it became something of an icon for the NewZealand film industry of the 90s, creating a number of persistent NZ [[MemeticMutation cultural memes]] and adding to the cult status of TemueraMorrison.
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''OnceWereWarriors'' is a 1994 film set in NewZealand UsefulNotes/NewZealand and dealing with the trials of a dysfunctional working-class Maori family. It was famous on its release as a result of its hard-hitting depiction of low-life, abuse and poverty among poor urban Maori (something of a hot-button issue in NewZealand).
New Zealand).
Due to its success it became something of an icon for theNewZealand New Zealand film industry of the 90s, creating a number of persistent NZ [[MemeticMutation cultural memes]] and adding to the cult status of TemueraMorrison.
Due to its success it became something of an icon for the
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* HellBentForLeather - Most of the male cast.
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* DieChairDie - While Grace's funeral is going on, Jake is sitting in the pub. A song he'd been singing along to with his family (See EarWorm) earlier in the film comes on and Jake becomes so enraged that he grabs a bar stool and puts it through the jukebox.
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* WildTeenParty - Jake tends to invite everyone from the pub back to his house on a nightly basis.
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* CurbStompBattle - Every fight Jake gets into.
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* AxeCrazy - Jake.
* AwesomeButImpractical - Jake beats on a guy who he claims has done "all weights, no speedball".
* AwesomeButImpractical - Jake beats on a guy who he claims has done "all weights, no speedball".
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* {{Alcoholism}} - Jake and Beth both
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* {{Alcoholism}} TheAlcoholic - Jake and Beth both
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''OnceWereWarriors'' is a 1994 film set in NewZealand and dealing with the trials of a dysfunctional working-class Maori family. It was famous on its release as a result of its hard-hitting depiction of low-life, abuse and poverty among poor urban Maori (something of a hot-button issue in NewZealand).
Due to its success it became something of an icon for the NewZealand film industry of the 90s, creating a number of persistent NZ [[MemeticMutation cultural memes]] and adding to the cult status of TemueraMorrison.
!!Has the examples of:
* {{Alcoholism}} - Jake and Beth both
* {{Delinquents}} - Nig and Boogie
* {{Diary}} - Grace keeps one, and Beth later finds it.
* DomesticAbuse - Jake abuses Beth (and, presumably, the children) regularly.
* DrivenToSuicide
* FacialMarkings - Nig
* TheFilmOfTheBook
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil - More than one example - crosses with VictimBlaming (and how)
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Due to its success it became something of an icon for the NewZealand film industry of the 90s, creating a number of persistent NZ [[MemeticMutation cultural memes]] and adding to the cult status of TemueraMorrison.
!!Has the examples of:
* {{Alcoholism}} - Jake and Beth both
* {{Delinquents}} - Nig and Boogie
* {{Diary}} - Grace keeps one, and Beth later finds it.
* DomesticAbuse - Jake abuses Beth (and, presumably, the children) regularly.
* DrivenToSuicide
* FacialMarkings - Nig
* TheFilmOfTheBook
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil - More than one example - crosses with VictimBlaming (and how)
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