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** There are three (debatably five) diagetic songs: Rune the butcher sings a hymn called "This Is Our Country" while sharpening his instruments as Lucas walks home after being suspended from work, the lodge's drinking song (which gets a joking reprise about Lucas's youthful encounter with a doe he found too beautiful to shoot and a downplayed DarkReprise when Lucas sings it to himself after being attacked on Christmas Eve), and the villagers sing "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear" at church[[note:using the Arthur Sullivan setting based on "Noel" most common outside of the US]]. None of these songs are presented as full-length musical numbers, but as short in-universe occurrences.
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** There are three (debatably five) diagetic songs: Rune the butcher sings a hymn called "This Is Our Country" while sharpening his instruments as Lucas walks home after being suspended from work, the lodge's drinking song (which gets a joking reprise about Lucas's youthful encounter with a doe he found too beautiful to shoot and a downplayed DarkReprise when Lucas sings it to himself after being attacked on Christmas Eve), and the villagers sing "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear" at church[[note:using church[[note]]using the Arthur Sullivan setting based on "Noel" most common outside of the US]].US[[/note]]. None of these songs are presented as full-length musical numbers, but as short in-universe occurrences.
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* TheMusical: Almost but not quite.
**There are three (debatably five) diagetic songs: Rune the butcher sings a hymn called "This Is Our Country" while sharpening his instruments as Lucas walks home after being suspended from work, the lodge's drinking song (which gets a joking reprise about Lucas's youthful encounter with a doe he found too beautiful to shoot and a downplayed DarkReprise when Lucas sings it to himself after being attacked on Christmas Eve), and the villagers sing "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear" at church[[note:using the Arthur Sullivan setting based on "Noel" most common outside of the US]]. None of these songs are presented as full-length musical numbers, but as short in-universe occurrences.
**There are also two non-diagetic songs: a DarkReprise of "This Is Our Country" as an AngryMobSong and the fully staged ode to Danish masculinity performed by the adult male cast (minus Lucas) that opens the play. There are also a few symbolic dance sequences.
**There are three (debatably five) diagetic songs: Rune the butcher sings a hymn called "This Is Our Country" while sharpening his instruments as Lucas walks home after being suspended from work, the lodge's drinking song (which gets a joking reprise about Lucas's youthful encounter with a doe he found too beautiful to shoot and a downplayed DarkReprise when Lucas sings it to himself after being attacked on Christmas Eve), and the villagers sing "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear" at church[[note:using the Arthur Sullivan setting based on "Noel" most common outside of the US]]. None of these songs are presented as full-length musical numbers, but as short in-universe occurrences.
**There are also two non-diagetic songs: a DarkReprise of "This Is Our Country" as an AngryMobSong and the fully staged ode to Danish masculinity performed by the adult male cast (minus Lucas) that opens the play. There are also a few symbolic dance sequences.
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* AdaptationalAlternateEnding: The play reaches more or less the same conclusion, but [[spoiler:because Lucas's blinking tell when he's lying is never mentioned, Theo only realizes Lucas didn't molest Clara and the other children because he gets [[LastMinuteReprieve a frantic phone call from Mikayla explaining that Clara finally told her about the video on Peter's phone and that she based her description of Lucas exposing himself to her on it]]. The phone call in question comes when Theo has the barrel of Lucas's own hunting rifle shoved into Lucas's mouth and his finger on the trigger.]]
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* AdaptationalAlternateEnding: The play reaches more or less the same conclusion, but [[spoiler:because Lucas's blinking tell when he's lying is never mentioned, Theo only realizes Lucas didn't molest Clara and the other children because he gets [[LastMinuteReprieve a frantic phone call from Mikayla explaining that Clara finally told her about Gunnar found the video on Peter's phone and that she Clara based her description of Lucas exposing himself to her on it]]. The phone call in question comes when Theo has the barrel of Lucas's own hunting rifle shoved into Lucas's mouth and his finger on the trigger.]]
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* AteHisGun: [[spoiler:Theo nearly kills Lucas by forcing the barrel of Lucas's own hunting rifle into Lucas's mouth, presumably planning to [[NeverSuicide make it look like Lucas committed suicide this way]] if Theo had gone through with it. Lucas is only saved by a timely phone call from Mikayla explaining that Clara finally mentioned the video on Peter's phone.]]
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* AteHisGun: [[spoiler:Theo nearly kills Lucas by forcing the barrel of Lucas's own hunting rifle into Lucas's mouth, presumably planning to [[NeverSuicide make it look like Lucas committed suicide this way]] if Theo had gone through with it. Lucas is only saved by a timely phone call from Mikayla explaining that Clara finally mentioned Gunnar found the video on Peter's phone.phone and realized what had happened.]]
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* HiddenDepths: Gunnar, Peter's father, is a jovial and friendly man who is nevertheless the first to turn actively violent toward Lucas when he believes Lucas has harmed the children- but he's also [[spoiler:the one who immediately realizes what's happened when he finds the porn video on the phone he gave Peter, and the only adult shown to fully and unambiguously trust Lucas and happily re-embrace him into the community after the TimeSkip.]]
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** Kirsten (renamed Susannah) is TheGhost; we hear Lucas's conversations with her on the phone but never her voice as in the film.
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: The film's final ambiguous moment remains, but everything blows over ''much'' faster in the play, and in particular Lucas has a much stronger reconciliation with Clara by helping carry her cross a room at the lodge that she's afraid to cross on her own. Clara also finally gets to kiss Lucas on the cheek.
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: The film's final ambiguous moment remains, but everything blows over ''much'' faster in the play, and in particular Lucas has a much stronger reconciliation with Clara by helping carry her cross a room at the lodge that she's afraid to cross on her own. Clara also finally gets to kiss Lucas on the cheek.cheek, with him understanding it as the innocent gesture it is.
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* LikeMotherLikeDaughter: [[spoiler:Mikayla is flirtatious with Lukas when she arrives late to pick Clara up, greeting him with a sly "hello, handsome!", rubbing his chest, and cupping his head in her hands. Lukas has to gently remove her hands the same way he, only moments before, had to pull his hand back after Clara placed it on her own thigh. Mikayla is implied to be driven as much by a thwarted crush on Lucas as her daughter is.]]
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** Theo tells the men of the village a story about a time he and Lucas went hunting as young men where Lucas- who's noted to be an excellent hunter- was so moved by a beautiful doe that instead of shooting her, he put down his gun and went to pet her, and she allowed it. The following Monday after Theo tells the story, Lucas mentions waking up to find another doe grazing outside of his bedroom window. [[ChildrenAreInnocent Innocent creatures]] [[FriendToAllChildren feel instinctively safe around him]], despite what the town comes to believe about him.
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* AdaptationAlternateEnding: The play reaches more or less the same conclusion, but [[spoiler:because Lucas's blinking tell when he's lying is never mentioned, Theo only realizes Lucas didn't molest Clara and the other children because he gets [[LastMinuteReprievea frantic phone call from Mikayla explaining that Clara finally told her about the video on Peter's phone and that she based her description of Lucas exposing himself to her on it]]. The phone call in question comes when Theo has the barrel of Lucas's own hunting rifle shoved into Lucas's mouth and his finger on the trigger.]]
* AdaptationalAlternateEnding: The play reaches more or less the same conclusion, but [[spoiler:because Lucas's blinking tell when he's lying is never mentioned, Theo only realizes Lucas didn't molest Clara and the other children because he gets [[LastMinuteReprieve a frantic phone call from Mikayla explaining that Clara finally told her about the video on Peter's phone and that she based her description of Lucas exposing himself to her on it]]. The phone call in question comes when Theo has the barrel of Lucas's own hunting rifle shoved into Lucas's mouth and his finger on the trigger.]]
** Lucas being a handsome single father who's excellent with kids is mentioned to have made him very popular with the town's women after his divorce. Once he's been accused, however, his singlehood is used as evidence that LonersAreFreaks. It's also what leads Clara to childishly believe she might have a chance with him, which sets the whole thing off, and [[spoiler:implied to be part of why Mikayla so badly needs Lucas to have been guilty: her marriage to Theo isn't doing too well, and she's both jealous of Lucas having a good relationship with Clara while she struggles with motherhood and jealous that Clara gets to spend so much time with Lucas.]]
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* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: Hilde tells Lucas (pre-accusation, of course) that multiple women in the village are interested in him, to the point of having written notes to Hilde asking for an introduction to him after he helped with the school's harvest festival.
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* AdaptationAlternateEnding: The play reaches more or less the same conclusion, but [[spoiler:because Lucas's blinking tell when he's lying is never mentioned, Theo only realizes Lucas didn't molest Clara and the other children because he gets [[LastMinuteReprievea frantic phone call from Mikayla explaining that Clara finally told her about the video on Peter's phone and that she based her description of Lucas exposing himself to her on it]]. The phone call in question comes when Theo has the barrel of Lucas's own hunting rifle shoved into Lucas's mouth and his finger on the trigger.]]
* AdaptationNameChange: Grethe the head teacher becomes Hilde, Theo's wife Agnes becomes Mikayla, Lucas's ex Kirsten is renamed Susannah, and Franny the dog gets a GenderFlip into Max. Klara's name is also respelled as Clara.
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* AdaptationNameChange: Grethe the head teacher becomes Hilde, Theo's wife Agnes becomes Mikayla, Lucas's ex Kirsten is renamed Susannah, and Franny the dog gets a GenderFlip into Max. Klara's name is also respelled as Clara.
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* AteHisGun: [[spoiler:Theo nearly kills Lucas by forcing the barrel of Lucas's own hunting rifle into Lucas's mouth, presumably planning to [[NeverSuicide make it look like Lucas committed suicide this way]] if Theo had gone through with it. Lucas is only saved by a timely phone call from Mikayla explaining that Clara finally mentioned the video on Peter's phone.]]
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* {{Main/Irony}}: Lucas spends much of the first scene of the play having to ask other adults- Gunnar, Mikayla, and Theo- to behave appropriately in his kindergarten classroom by not swearing or smoking in front of the kids. Lucas is then falsely accused of doing something ''even more inappropriate'' in the same classroom and hounded nearly to death for it by the same adults.
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The film later received a (non-musical) English-language ScreenToStageAdaptation in London in 2019, starring Creator/TobiasMenzies as Lucas. The play later transferred to Brooklyn, New York for a limited run in 2024.
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* BerserkButton: Don't you ever mentioned the name "Kirsten" in [[EvilDetectingDog Fanny]]'s presence.
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* BerserkButton: Don't you ever mentioned mention the name "Kirsten" in [[EvilDetectingDog Fanny]]'s presence.
* DarkReprise: Rune's "This Is Our Country" was already pretty menacing, but when the entire adult cast (minus Lucas) reprise it later while surrounding Lucas with torches, the effect is terrifying.
** Lucas quietly sings the hunting lodge's drinking song to himself while DrowningHisSorrows after being beaten up and thrown out of the lodge on Christmas Eve.
** Lucas quietly sings the hunting lodge's drinking song to himself while DrowningHisSorrows after being beaten up and thrown out of the lodge on Christmas Eve.
* EmotionsVsStoicism: The other characters frequently call Lucas out for being so stoic, it's hard to tell anything about him. This is one of the reasons they close ranks so quickly when he's MistakenForPedophile-- they feel they never actually knew him well enough to know what he was or wasn't capable of.
**Lucas, however, only holds this standard to himself. He hides his face from Marcus so he can't see that he's crying, but doesn't hesitate to hug and rock Marcus in his arms when Marcus breaks down too.
**Lucas, however, only holds this standard to himself. He hides his face from Marcus so he can't see that he's crying, but doesn't hesitate to hug and rock Marcus in his arms when Marcus breaks down too.
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** Ironically, Marcus is the Sensitive Guy to ''Lucas's'' Manly Man. Marcus praises his dad for being "ice cool" and openly cries in front of him, while Lucas does everything he can to hide his own tears from Marcus.
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** Torsten is removed as well, along with the older boy who shows Clara the pornographic photo. Clara instead sees a pornographic ''video'' that her kindergarten classmate Peter found in the deleted files on a secondhand phone his father gave him to play games on.
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** Torsten is removed as well, along with the older boy who shows and Clara appears to be an only child (though she's mentioned to have a cousin by the pornographic photo. same name). Clara instead sees a pornographic ''video'' that her kindergarten classmate Peter found in the deleted files on a secondhand phone his father gave him to play games on.on.
**Bruun and his family do not appear, probably for the same reason as Nadja. In addition, Lucas himself gets Bruun's name as his own last name.
**Bruun and his family do not appear, probably for the same reason as Nadja. In addition, Lucas himself gets Bruun's name as his own last name.
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* CommonalityConnection: Even before their respective lives begin to fall apart in the aftermath of her impulsive lie, Lucas notes that he and Clara are very similar people- they tend to bottle their feelings and avoid conflict. This is illustrated rather tragically when Clara is scared into reiterating her lie by the idea that she would be punished for making it up (or get Hilde into trouble for repeating something she'd made up), and when Lucas struggles to verbally defend himself.
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* CommonalityConnection: Even before their respective lives begin to fall apart in the aftermath of her impulsive lie, Lucas notes that he and Clara are very similar people- they tend to bottle their feelings and avoid conflict. This is illustrated rather tragically when Clara is scared into reiterating her lie by the idea that she would be punished for making it up (or get Hilde into trouble for repeating something she'd made up), and when Lucas struggles to verbally defend himself. They also both separately cover their faces to avoid being seen crying.
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* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Lucas and Theo's friendship in a nutshell. Theo is swaggering, hot-tempered, and stereotypically masculine to a fault, while Lucas is withdrawn, conflict-avoidant, easily overwhelmed, and great with kids. This is played with, however, with many people reading Lucas's quiet and sensitive nature as closed-off and icy, as well as Lucas apparently being a terrific shot with a rifle and Theo being pretty lousy at it.
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* DysfunctionalFamily: As in the film, Clara's home life is not particularly stable, but it's ''far'' more emphasized in the play. Theo is TheAlcoholic and struggles to hold down a job, Mikayla [[TheUnsolvedMystery never does admit why she was late picking Clara up on that fateful Friday]], and Clara has developed a bad case of OCD from trying to find consistency and order in her life. What makes Lucas finally snap at Theo in the end is Theo's accusation that Lucas brought chaos into Clara's life, to which Lucas furiously retorts that the chaos was already there and if anything, Clara's crush on him came from looking to him as a source of safety and stability.
** Unlike in the film, it's also implied Mikayla isn't jealous of Lucas for being closer with Theo than she is-- [[AllLoveIsUnrequited she's jealous of both Clara for being closer to Lucas]] and [[ParentalSubstitute Lucas for being closer to Clara]].
* EarnYourHappyEnding: The film's final ambiguous moment remains, but everything blows over ''much'' faster in the play, and in particular Lucas has a much stronger reconciliation with Clara by helping carry her cross a room at the lodge that she's afraid to cross on her own. Clara also finally gets to kiss Lucas on the cheek.
* ParentalSubstitute: Mikayla admits to Theo that part of what makes the perceived situation (that Lucas molested Clara) so awful is that Clara saw Lucas as this and preferred his company to hers and Theo's.
** Unlike in the film, it's also implied Mikayla isn't jealous of Lucas for being closer with Theo than she is-- [[AllLoveIsUnrequited she's jealous of both Clara for being closer to Lucas]] and [[ParentalSubstitute Lucas for being closer to Clara]].
* EarnYourHappyEnding: The film's final ambiguous moment remains, but everything blows over ''much'' faster in the play, and in particular Lucas has a much stronger reconciliation with Clara by helping carry her cross a room at the lodge that she's afraid to cross on her own. Clara also finally gets to kiss Lucas on the cheek.
* ParentalSubstitute: Mikayla admits to Theo that part of what makes the perceived situation (that Lucas molested Clara) so awful is that Clara saw Lucas as this and preferred his company to hers and Theo's.
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!!The stage adaptation includes many of the same tropes, as well as:
*AdaptedOut: Nadja is removed from the story to emphasize Lucas's isolation. This is the target of a small MythologyGag, when Clara scoffs at the idea of Lucas having a girlfriend.
**Torsten is removed as well, along with the older boy who shows Clara the pornographic photo. Clara instead sees a pornographic ''video'' that her kindergarten classmate Peter found in the deleted files on a secondhand phone his father gave him to play games on.
*AdaptationNameChange: Grethe the head teacher becomes Hilde, Theo's wife Agnes becomes Mikayla, Lucas's ex Kirsten is renamed Susannah, and Franny the dog gets a GenderFlip into Max. Klara's name is also respelled as Clara.
*AdaptationalWimp: Lucas is a ''much'' more passive and conflict-avoidant man in the play than he is in the film. He freezes up when given the opportunity to defend himself verbally and never fights back physically, though he does arm himself with his hunting rifle toward the climax.
*CommonalityConnection: Even before their respective lives begin to fall apart in the aftermath of her impulsive lie, Lucas notes that he and Clara are very similar people- they tend to bottle their feelings and avoid conflict. This is illustrated rather tragically when Clara is scared into reiterating her lie by the idea that she would be punished for making it up (or get Hilde into trouble for repeating something she'd made up), and when Lucas struggles to verbally defend himself.
*RuleOfSymbolism: Lucas is haunted throughout the play by figures wearing animal-skull headdresses, representing the barely suppressed ancient pagan warrior culture underlying the village's modern sensibilities that rises to the surface when he's accused of abusing the children. [[spoiler:One of them is used to reveal Max's dead body to the audience, holding the poor dog wrapped in bloody blankets like a sacrificial offering.]]
** After being dismissed from his job, Lucas encounters Rune the butcher sharpening his tools outdoors while singing an old pagan hymn about how the villagers will "meet every enemy with a sword in [their] hand[s]". The song goes on to add that "every town has its witch, every parish its troll, and we will with pleasure bleed the life from their veins." A vision of Clara appears on the word "witch", suggesting that she, too, will be destroyed in the village's efforts to hunt down Lucas, the "troll".
** After the fight in the church, Lucas is symbolically surrounded by the rest of the adults in the village carrying [[TorchesAndPitchforks torches]] and singing the same hymn Rune did earlier as Lucas buries [[spoiler:Max's body]]. The PaedoHunt has become a WitchHunt.
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The film later received a (non-musical) English-language ScreenToStageAdaptation in London in 2019, starring Creator/TobiasMenzies as Lucas. The play later transferred to Brooklyn, New York for a limited run in 2024.
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* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler:During the final scene, a big hunt start, and everyone is getting a gun, we can guess something will appends with the guns]].
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* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler:During the final scene, a big hunt start, starts, and everyone is getting a gun, we gun. We can guess something will appends happen with the guns]].
