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* {{Narm}}: Jan's clearly-ADR'd shout of Bess's name when [[spoiler: he and his friends bury her in the ocean]]. Editor Anders Refn considers it to be his only issue with the film.
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* HolyShitQuotient: There's probably only one, but [[spoiler: considering it involves '''God Himself honoring Bess''']], it's likely to be a big one.

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* HolyShitQuotient: ShockingMoments: There's probably only one, but [[spoiler: considering it involves '''God Himself honoring Bess''']], it's likely to be a big one.
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Yes, Bess is dead. But she saved Jan, and few movies end with confirmation of a character ''ascending to Heaven.'']]
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* MagnumOpus: Most agree ''Breaking the Waves'' is this for Lars von Trier. It's certainly his most sincere work.
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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: A comical montage of Bess and Dodo trying to set Jan up in the house. It's already stylistically out of step with the rest of the film, but what really pushes it over the edge is the T.Rex song, the only non-diagetic music in the film discounting those used in the intertitles.

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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: A comical montage of Bess and Dodo trying to set Jan up in the house. It's already stylistically out of step with the rest of the film, but what really pushes it over the edge is the T.Rex song, Rex's "Hot Love", the only non-diagetic music in the film discounting those used in the intertitles.
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* HolyShitQuotient: There's probably only one, but [[spoiler: considering it involves '''God Himself honoring Bess''']], it's likely to be a big one.
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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: A comical montage of Bess and Dodo trying to set Jan up in the house. It's already stylistically out of step with the rest of the film, but what really pushes it over the edge is the T.Rex song, the only non-diagetic music in the film discounting those used in the intertitles.
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* TearJerker: [[spoiler: Bess' death]] is perhaps one of the worst in all of cinema.

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* TearJerker: [[spoiler: Bess' death]] is perhaps possibly one of the worst in all of cinema.
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Yes, Bess is dead. But she saved Jan, and few movies end with confirmation of a character ''ascending to heaven.'']]

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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Yes, Bess is dead. But she saved Jan, and few movies end with confirmation of a character ''ascending to heaven.Heaven.'']]
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Yes, Bess is dead. But few movies end with confirmation of a character ''ascending to heaven.'']]

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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Yes, Bess is dead. But she saved Jan, and few movies end with confirmation of a character ''ascending to heaven.'']]
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Yes, Bess is dead. But few movies end with confirmation of a character ''ascending to heaven.''
* MangumOpus: Most agree ''Breaking the Waves'' is this for Lars von Trier. It's certainly his most sincere work.

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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Yes, Bess is dead. But few movies end with confirmation of a character ''ascending to heaven.''
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* MangumOpus: MagnumOpus: Most agree ''Breaking the Waves'' is this for Lars von Trier. It's certainly his most sincere work.
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Yes, Bess is dead. But few movies end with confirmation of a character ''ascending to heaven.''
* MangumOpus: Most agree ''Breaking the Waves'' is this for Lars von Trier. It's certainly his most sincere work.
* TearJerker: [[spoiler: Bess' death]] is perhaps one of the worst in all of cinema.

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