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* BaldOfEvilBaldOfEvil: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed,]] as while he still has hair it's cut incredibly short.
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* SelfMadeOrphan: After his father is indirectly killed by him, his mother confronts him about the decade-long abuse which eventually escalates into a fight, and he attempts to kill his own mother by ''sticking her head in the fireplace.'' Fortunately, Joan manages to fight back with a fire poker and kills him.
* StartOfDarkness: While it seems like Isaiah had an attraction to his father since he was at least a teenager, the conversation he and Sidney had about masturbation being normal for people seemed to have spurred him into acting on his urges after misinterpreting his father's words.
* StartOfDarkness: While it seems like Isaiah had an attraction to his father since he was at least a teenager, the conversation he and Sidney had about masturbation being normal for people seemed to have spurred him into acting on his urges after misinterpreting his father's words.
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: Acts like a normal family to everyone but is a predatory abuser who preys on his own father.
* CaughtWithYourPantsDown: The beginning flashback of the movie is a scene where Sidney walks in on him masturbating at a photo before talking with him about how it's normal for boys his age to do so. Unfortunately, he's completely unaware that Isaiah was masturbating at a photo of him, which is anything ''but'' normal behavior, foreshadowing the sexual abuse he would then endure at the hands of his son.
* CaughtWithYourPantsDown: The beginning flashback of the movie is a scene where Sidney walks in on him masturbating at a photo before talking with him about how it's normal for boys his age to do so. Unfortunately, he's completely unaware that Isaiah was masturbating at a photo of him, which is anything ''but'' normal behavior, foreshadowing the sexual abuse he would then endure at the hands of his son.
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: Acts like they are a normal family to everyone but is a predatory abuser who preys on his own father.
* CaughtWithYourPantsDown: The beginning flashback of the movie is a scene where Sidney walks in on him masturbating at a photo before talking with him about how it's normal for boys his age to do so. Unfortunately, he's completely unaware that Isaiah was masturbating at a photo of him, which is anything ''but'' normalbehavior, behaviour, foreshadowing the sexual abuse he would then endure at the hands of his son.
* CaughtWithYourPantsDown: The beginning flashback of the movie is a scene where Sidney walks in on him masturbating at a photo before talking with him about how it's normal for boys his age to do so. Unfortunately, he's completely unaware that Isaiah was masturbating at a photo of him, which is anything ''but'' normal
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* FauxAffablyEvil: Puts on a front of charisma and uprightness when in public, but in secret, is a sociopathic monster who molests his father any chance he got.
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* FauxAffablyEvil: Puts on a front of charisma and uprightness when in public, but in secret, is a sociopathic monster who molests his father any chance he got.gets.
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The son.son with an unhealthy fixation on his father.
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*[[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas Even Bad Boys Love Their Papas]]: As twisted as his relationship with his father may be, he still loves his father even after the old man died in a truck crash.
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: Acts like a normal family to everyone but is a predatory abuser who preys on his own father.
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* PsychopathicManchild: He continues his predatory ways and denies all responsibility for his own horrible actions well into adulthood.
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* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: Even assuming Sidney did sexually assault him first, it's shown to be comparatively irrelevant considering that he then engaged in several years of sexual and emotional abuse towards him.
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not cathartic, but deserved
* DrivenToSuicide: It's implied that he deliberately ran in the direction of a white van as a means of escaping the abuse.
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* AssholeVictim: When his mother kills him at the end, it's totally cathartic.
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* AssholeVictim: When his mother kills him at the end, it's totally cathartic.deserved.
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* KarmaHoudini: Downplayed. She was complicit in her son's abuse of her husband for years and failed to do anything about it or confront him about it until it was too late. At the end of the movie, she kills her son in self-defense and burns Sidney's second memoir so that no one will ever know of the abuse he endured, however, she will also have to live with knowing that both her husband and sons deaths are to some extent her fault.
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* KarmaHoudini: Downplayed. She was complicit in her son's abuse of her husband for years and failed to do anything about it or confront him about it until it was too late. At the end of the movie, she kills her son in self-defense and burns Sidney's second copy of his memoir so that no one will ever know of the abuse he endured, however, endured. However, she will also have to live with knowing that both her husband and sons deaths are to some extent her fault.
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* SelectiveObliviousness: She's well aware that her son has been abusing her husband for years and even ''hears it happening'' but chooses to ignore it by turning the tv up.
* StepfordSmiler: She's so obsessed with keeping an image of a happy, functional family that she would reserve the fact that she's aware of her son's disturbing behavior and she's willing to ignore the way her own son abuse (and later rape) her own husband.
* StepfordSmiler: She's so obsessed with keeping an image of a happy, functional family that she would reserve the fact that she's aware of her son's disturbing behavior and she's willing to ignore the way her own son abuse (and later rape) her own husband.
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* SelectiveObliviousness: She's well aware that her son has been abusing her husband for years and even ''hears it happening'' but chooses to ignore it by turning the tv TV up.
* StepfordSmiler: She's so obsessed with keeping an image of a happy, functional family that she would reserve the fact that she's aware of her son's disturbing behavior and she's willing to ignore the way her own sonabuse abuses (and later rape) rapes) her own husband.
* StepfordSmiler: She's so obsessed with keeping an image of a happy, functional family that she would reserve the fact that she's aware of her son's disturbing behavior and she's willing to ignore the way her own son
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* CaughtWithYourPantsDown: The flashback of the movie is a scene where Sydney walks in on him masturbating at a photo before talking with him about how it's normal for boys his age to do so. Unfortunately, he's completely unaware that Isaiah was masturbating at a photo of him, which is anything ''but'' normal behavior, foreshadowing the sexual abuse he would then endure at the hands of his son.
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* CaughtWithYourPantsDown: The beginning flashback of the movie is a scene where Sydney Sidney walks in on him masturbating at a photo before talking with him about how it's normal for boys his age to do so. Unfortunately, he's completely unaware that Isaiah was masturbating at a photo of him, which is anything ''but'' normal behavior, foreshadowing the sexual abuse he would then endure at the hands of his son.
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* FateWorseThanDeath: He was trapped in an abusive relationship with his son for ''over 10 years'', [[Extremedoormat unable to stick up for himself]] and was eventually too fearful of what his son would do to him to tell him others about what was happening. It's likely that if he didn't get hit by a car toward the end of the movie he would have had to endure even more of his son's abuse for presumably the rest of his life.
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* FateWorseThanDeath: He was trapped in an abusive relationship with his son for ''over 10 years'', [[Extremedoormat [[ExtremeDoormat unable to stick up for himself]] and was eventually too fearful of what his son would do to him to tell him others about what was happening. It's likely that if he didn't get hit by a car toward the end of the movie he would have had to endure even more of his son's abuse for presumably the rest of his life.
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* BrokenTears: By Joan's account, she first realized something was wrong after Sidney drove Isaiah home from prom night, as he sat in the bathroom all night crying with the sink running.
* FateWorseThanDeath: He was trapped in an abusive relationship with his son for ''over 10 years'', [[Extremedoormat unable to stick up for himself]] and was eventually too fearful of what his son would do to him to tell him others about what was happening. It's likely that if he didn't get hit by a car toward the end of the movie he would have had to endure even more of his son's abuse for presumably the rest of his life.
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* DrivenToSuicide: It's implied that he deliberately ran into the direction of a white van as a means of escaping the abuse.
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* DrivenToSuicide: It's implied that he deliberately ran into in the direction of a white van as a means of escaping the abuse.abuse.
* NoodleIncident: Whatever Isaiah did to him on prom night left Sidney so broken he sat in the bathroom all night crying with the sink running. Joan wonders if this is when the abuse started, though she realizes that it must have been going on even earlier than that.
* NoodleIncident: Whatever Isaiah did to him on prom night left Sidney so broken he sat in the bathroom all night crying with the sink running. Joan wonders if this is when the abuse started, though she realizes that it must have been going on even earlier than that.
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* SelectiveObliviousness: She's well aware that her son has been abusing her husband for years and even ''hears it happening'' but chooses to ignore it by turning the tv up.
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* StepfordSmiler: She's so obsessed keeping an image of a happy, functional family that she would reserve the fact that she's aware of her son's disturbing behavior and she's willing to ignore the way her own son abuse (and later rape) her own husband.
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* StepfordSmiler: She's so obsessed with keeping an image of a happy, functional family that she would reserve the fact that she's aware of her son's disturbing behavior and she's willing to ignore the way her own son abuse (and later rape) her own husband.husband.
* ThousandYardStare: Her expression at the funeral as she comes to terms with what happened.
* ThousandYardStare: Her expression at the funeral as she comes to terms with what happened.
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* NeverMyFault: It's implied that she burns the memoir not only to protect her reputation, but so she won't have to explain her inactions during the entire time she was aware of Sidney and Isaiah's abusive incestuous relationship.
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* KarmaHoudini: Downplayed. She was complicit in her son's abuse of her husband for years and failed to do anything about it or confront him about it until it was too late. At the end of the movie, she kills her son in self-defense and burns Sidney's second memoir so that no one will ever know of the abuse he endured, however, she will also have to live with knowing that both her husband and sons deaths are to some extent her fault.
* NeverMyFault: It's implied that she burns the memoir not only to protect herreputation, reputation but so she won't have to explain her inactions during the entire time she was aware of Sidney and Isaiah's abusive incestuous relationship.
* NeverMyFault: It's implied that she burns the memoir not only to protect her
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* SecretKeeper: A dark example. She burns the second copy of Sidney's memoir.memoir, making it so no one will ever know of the abuse he suffered at the hands of his own son.
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* CrazyJealousGuy: He was jealous of his own mother's relationship with his father.
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* AmbiguousSituation: It's never made clear how the abuse began. At the very least, Sidney walks in on his son, and then gave a touching speech about how something of that sort is perfectly normal. However, part of the memoir that Sidney is typing has him state that he and his son were equally guilty, though this could be a result of Sidney internalizing blame from his abuser.
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* AmbiguousSituation: It's never made clear how the abuse began. At the very least, Sidney walks in on his son, and then gave a touching speech about how something of that sort is perfectly normal. However, part of normal, implying that the son was already obsessed with his father but that he interpreted his words of reassurance as him giving the okay to abuse him. After all, he did say it was "perfectly normal".
** Whether Sidney sexually abused Isaiah first. Isaiah implies that Sidney incited the abuse somehow, however, we see in Sidney's memoir that not even he is sure what started it all, musing on whether it was something trivial like grounding him or sending him to his room that set Isaiah off. The film also never gives any indication that Sidneyis typing has him state that he and his son were equally guilty, though this could be a result of Sidney internalizing blame from his abuser.had any part in the abuse, further muddying things.
** Whether Sidney sexually abused Isaiah first. Isaiah implies that Sidney incited the abuse somehow, however, we see in Sidney's memoir that not even he is sure what started it all, musing on whether it was something trivial like grounding him or sending him to his room that set Isaiah off. The film also never gives any indication that Sidney
* GuiltComplex: While he's not sure what caused his son to begin abusing him in the first place, he blames himself for Isaiah's abuse nonetheless.
* PoorCommunicationKills: If he didn't have that talk with Isaiah at the beginning of the movie, it's likely that the entire plot could have been avoided. Justified as he didn't know that his son was ''masturbating to a picture of him'' when he gave him those words of reassurance.
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* DepravedBisexual: While he married a beautiful woman, he still has his eyes on his father. The movie makes it clear that Isaiah has greater sexual attraction towards his own father, showing that he is bisexual. This even goes on to where, while he and his wife are kissing during their first-anniversary party, Isaiah is uninterested in her and continues to look at his father with same-sex attraction, even breaking a glass and making an excuse to his wife that he's going to clean up after the party.
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* DepravedBisexual: While he married a beautiful woman, he still has his eyes on his father. The movie makes it clear that Isaiah has greater sexual attraction towards his own father, showing that he is bisexual. This even goes on to where, while he and his wife are kissing during their first-anniversary party, Isaiah is uninterested in her and continues to look at his father with same-sex attraction, even breaking a glass and making an excuse to his wife that he's going to clean up after the party.
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* ExactWords: He took his father saying that his masturbating is "perfectly normal" to heart, seemingly unaware of the fact, or simply not caring that, his father wasn't aware that he was masturbating to a picture of him when he gave him those words of reassurance. Either way, it's implied that it was this conversation that was the inciting incident that lead to 14 years of abuse.
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* CrocodileTears: What he does to continue manipulating his father into accepting his incestuous abuse. After he rapes Sydney in the bathroom, Isaiah tries this again, but it doesn't work and Sydney runs off into the street where he is promptly killed by a moving vehicle.
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* DepravedBisexual: While he married a beautiful woman, he still has his eyes on his father.
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* DepravedBisexual: While he married a beautiful woman, he still has his eyes on his father. The movie makes it clear that Isaiah has greater sexual attraction towards his own father, showing that he is bisexual. This even goes on to where, while he and his wife are kissing during their first-anniversary party, Isaiah is uninterested in her and continues to look at his father with same-sex attraction, even breaking a glass and making an excuse to his wife that he's going to clean up after the party.
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* YouMonster: Joan outright says this to him when she confronts him for being the indirect reason for his father's death.
