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Tear Jerker / Utøya: July 22

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As this is a film based on real events, the whole thing is this. Suffice to say people were issued a warning about watching it before they felt ready, and many of those personally affected by it will never be able to.


  • The death of the wounded girl. Kaja finds her in the woods with a huge wound. Kaja tries to stop the bleeding, even giving up her jacket, but it doesn't help. The girl goes from fully alert and speaking, to not responding clearly, to dead within minutes, all the while lamenting that she cannot get through to her mother and tell her that she loves her. And then her mother calls back just one minute after she dies.
  • Kaja calling her mother and promising to find Emilie, her little sister, whom she basically coerced into coming to the island. Her crying as she first hears her mother's voice and then ending the call with telling her mother she loves her and her father is gut-wrenching, especially as that's exactly how many of the teenagers' phone calls went in Real Life.
  • Kaja finding corpses on the beach which she passed just 10 minutes ago. One of them is a small boy whom Kaja guided to the forest earlier in the film.
  • Kaja's Sanity Slippage in the last part of the film. The once determined and eloquent girl is reduced to a shell-shock status, barely able to think clearly.
  • And finally there is Kaja's own death, killed just as she was contemplating giving up her search for Emilie and escaping by boat, not even knowing that Emilie was in this very boat. She also clearly thought that Emilie is dead and considered herself responsible for it. This is made worse by the fact that both timing and the fact that no further shots are heard suggest that the killer surrendered immediately after that, making her the last victim.

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