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  • Alternative Character Interpretation: Frankie would be a nice guy if the people he hung out with weren't such dickheads.
  • Harsher in Hindsight
  • Moral Event Horizon: Johnny has pretty much stamped His passport to Hell by the time the credits roll
  • Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped: The Gangster lifestyle is for idiots and useless fuck-ups and is populated by people who'll burn you at the first sign of trouble.
  • Tear Jerker
  • The Woobie: By about thirty minutes before the end of this movie, you're gonna wish you didn't already know how it ended.
  • Values Dissonance: The drug use and the indifference most of the people have to that is only part of the problem. No one - least of all the victim - seems to mind that a kidnapping is taking place and everyone even treats it as a lark, with the victim accorded minor celebrity status among Johnny's party crowd. Until Johnny orders Frankie to kill Zach...
    • Even then it continues. Pick for instance is pissed not that Elvis murdered someone but that he is in trouble for them using his mom's car.