History Film / TheLastSeduction

* DeconstructedTrope: As the title implies, the film was intended to be this for the typical FilmNoir FemmeFatale plot, [[spoiler:illustrating just how heartless a woman would have to be to seduce a man into murdering a complete stranger, and how dumb the man would have to be to actually fall for it.]]

* NeverMyFault: Bridget gets slapped by Clay because she called him an idiot for basically no reason. While far from the most reasonable way to react, Bridget's response is to blatantly steal the money out in the open and run away. While it's something that she have may already been planning to do in a more secret fashion, Bridget wanting her husband to know how much she loathes him over that ''really'' shows how she doesn't take accountability for her lack of remorse.

* HiddenDepths: Despite her antisocial tendencies and the possibility that she planned to scam her husband in some way anyway, [[VillainHasAPoint Bridget does legitimately seem hurt]] when Clay does [[DisproportionateRetributionslap her]], even if he she called him an idiot for little reason.

* DomesticAbuse: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed.]] Clay slaps Bridget when she taunts him, but feels sorry soon after. Bridget, however, either harbors a ''huge'' grudge or uses the incident as an excuse to take the money for herself. She also claims to be the victim of this to secure a new job.

* MurderByProxy: After stealing her husband Clay's drug money and skipping town, Bridget tries to manipulate the gullible Mike to murder Clay for her. [[spoiler:He eventually agrees, but when Clay discovers that Bridget is behind it, he's able to reason with Mike and make him see that Bridget is using him. Bridget then kills Clay herself and frames Mike for it anyway.]]

* LackOfEmpathy: Bridget, in spades.

* OhCrap: The one moment in the film where Bridget's completely cool resolve breaks is when Harlan first catches up to her. She quickly recovers, in spades.

* RavenHairIvorySkin: Bridget, to a tee.

* TheSociopath: Bridget, point by point from the trope description:
## The only time she ever discusses morality she seems to regard it as some alien concept.
## Her attorney is the only person she ''ever'' tells the unvarnished truth, and is also the only person she ''doesn't'' try to manipulate -- only because she can get what she wants from him more easily without it.
## She's doing Mike everywhere except Main Street in broad daylight...
## ... but not because she "loves" him.
## The film ends with her chauffeur holding an umbrella for her so she can walk across a sidewalk.

* TheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Subverted entirely. [[spoiler:Despite all of Mike's efforts, Bridget never has any cathartic moment where she reveals she loves Mike, and instead, uses him completely as a means to an end, letting him take the rap for a murder he didn't commit to escape scot-free.]]

* TheVamp: Bridget to the nth degree.

* WhamLine: Frank, when he's been filled in by Clay about how Bridget stole the money he made from selling drugs, and that he's being assaulted by mob types who want payment. Frank practically breaks the fourth wall and asks what many in the audience are probably thinking.
-->''"Anyone check you for a heartbeat recently?"''

-->''"You married a man, you farm faggot!"''

-->''"I am a TOTAL FUCKING BITCH!"''

* WoundedGazelleGambit: Bridget pulls this first at the hospital with the cop and then [[spoiler:in the final scene to put the rap on Mike.]]

* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Bridget, pretty much for the entire film. There are hints that [[spoiler:Bridget was always planning to steal the money Clay got from the drug deal, and that his slap had little to do with why she runs. And she continues to backstab him throughout the film.]]

* FemmeFatale: A DeconstructedCharacterArchetype with Bridget (see above).

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Any hopes the audience may have of Bridget's character having a HeelFaceTurn are pretty much ruled out when she's on the phone to Frank, helps herself to a pie in Mike's fridge, doesn't like it, and puts her cigarette out on it. The camera shows us that the pie has a cutesy note from Mike's grandmother on it. She used a pie Mike's grandma baked with love as an ashtray.

* HotterAndSexier: The film is basically what ''Film/DoubleIndemnity'' and ''Film/BodyHeat'' would have been if they'd had the femme fatales be the leads, rather than the male patsy, and it definitely is racier in the scenes between Bridget and Mike than what we see in the other two films.

* BerserkButton: For Mike, what pushes him over the edge in the final scene is Bridget mocking him for his marriage to Trish; it turns out that she was [[spoiler:a trans woman.]]

* HeterosexualLifePartners: Mike and his friends come across this way.

* Bridget, finally revealing the secret of why Mike divorced his wife Trish.

* Also Bridget, when Mike says he can't tell if Bridget is a total bitch or not.

* YoureNotMy