- Alternate Character Interpretation: Is Eva a terrible person for running up the bills and simply leaving? Or is living in the middle of nowhere with two obviously crazy men just unbearable?
- The Danza: Bruno Schleinstein as Bruno Stroszek, Eva Mattes as Eva.
- Harsher in Hindsight: Bruno's suicide at the end of the film becomes far darker when one takes into account that one of the last things Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis did before his own suicide — on the eve of what would have been the band's first trip to America, no less — was watch this movie.
- Overshadowed by Controversy: The film is notorious for being the last thing Ian Curtis watched before committing suicide.
- Typecasting: Just like in Herzog's Woyzeck, Eva Mattes plays a woman who temporarily has a crazy husband.
- The Woobie: Bruno and Eva both.
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