triadalimo.blogg.se - A story about my uncle tv tropes

Monochrome Past: Flashbacks are composed of mostly black and white imagery.The Maze: Chapter 13 leads you to through a garish maze of a house with hideous wallpapers.Lobotomy: In the final scene, Renée is undergoing lobotomy surgery, presumably turning her into an Empty Shell for the rest of her life.I Never Got Any Letters: Renée discovers that correspondence from her mother did not reach her.In the 1930s, homosexuality was considered a mental illness and could land someone in a sanitarium. An alternative interpretation is that Renée's suppressed homosexuality turned her into a Psycho Lesbian.

It doesn't help that Renée was molested as a child by different men. It makes you realize how long of a way we have come in understanding how the human mind works and how mental illnesses can be treated effectively.

Hysterical Woman: Renée's story is one where her womanhood was pathologized.

But then we cut to the present day and explore Renée's time leading up to that scene.

How We Got Here: The game opens with Renée waking up at the asylum in 1942, right before the lobotomy surgery was to take place.

Ghost Butler: Some doors are plot-sensitive and open on their own once you have unlocked a new chapter.

Sometimes takes the form of a Flashback Cut when we only see a flash of a memory bubbling up like when she was making love to a stranger in the greenhouse or took a visit to the Depraved Dentist.

Flashback: Renée walks the corridors of the derelict asylum which triggers flashbacks of both her inpatient stay and circumstances prior.

Fade to White: Going with the idea of light, the standard chapter transition is to a Loading Screen consisting of just a white background.

Eye Cam: The first part of the lobotomy surgery is seen through Renée's eye where her eyelids open and close as she watches up from the operation table.

The scene plays out like a Nightmare Sequence and fades to white when the procedure begins.

Electroconvulsive Therapy Is Torture: A flashback shows Renée undergo electroshock therapy.Driven to Suicide: After several years of communication censoring by hospital staff, Renéediscovers that her mother died and tried to take her own life on multiple occasions.Downer Ending: The story ends with a doctor narrating that the long-term recovery for Renée post-surgery is unclear but it doesn't look good.Creepy Uncle: Onofrio, a friend of Renée's mother, supported the family but apparently also molested Renée.