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Green-Eyed Monster: Heavily implied that the majority of townswomen are jealous that their husbands lust over Malena.The women of the town start out merely unkind before they end up humiliating Malena in the street over their jealousy of her. Foreshadowing: When Maléna walks through the town as a redhead for the first time, one woman can be heard saying "I'd like to cut off all that hair".Fisher Kingdom: Played realistically - because everyone thinks Malena is an adultering whore, she can't find a job and eventually has no other choice but play along that perception just to feed herself.She's half nude but also covered in blood and crying. Also Malena when she is dragged into the middle of the town in her lingerie and beaten savagely.Malena when she's lying topless on her bed.Her natural brown hair has grown back but not completely at the end, showing how she still carries the scars of what happened to her. The blonde hair then symbolises her giving herself over to the Germans. When she cuts it and dyes it red it is symbolic of her becoming a prostitute. Expository Hairstyle Change: Maléna's long dark hair represents her purity and innocence.Erotic Dream: Renato has them about Maléna.Distracted by the Sexy: The men of the town, by Maléna.The film is more actually Renato's story and how she fits into it.
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Her first scene even explicitly shows him getting a boner as she walks by. A Date with Rosie Palms: Renato is about fourteen and thus has several sexual fantasies about Malena.Notably he gets revenge on a woman who was gossiping about Malena by peeing in her pocket book. Chivalrous Pervert: Renato tries to defend Malena's honour a couple of times despite lusting over her.Color-Coded Characters: Used early on with Maléna to distinguish her from the other women by her white dress.After quite a while when it's confirmed Mussolini has been overthrown, we see Renato getting a pair of pants made for him. Brick Joke: Renato makes his father swear to buy him a pair of long pants when Il Duce dies.It almost succeeds, specially when the other women beat her bloody purely for being prettier than them. Break the Cutie: The plot totally bends over to break Malena.Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: Maléna herself cycles through all three colours in the film.The narrator (Renato as an adult) then tells us that he's known many women who asked him not to forget her, but the only woman who never asked - Maléna - is the only one he's never forgotten. before she walks out of his life forever. Bittersweet Ending: The townswomen let Maléna back into their lives, she's reunited with her husband, and Renato finally talks directly to her.They're introduced making snide remarks about Malena as she walks around town, establishing that they're going to be a problem for her. Big Brother Instinct: Even though Renato is actually in love with Malena, his actions to the people gossiping about her have undertones of this.The lawyer actually references the trope when defending her in court. Beauty Is Bad: Subverted since Maléna is not bad but the other women in the town have this attitude.Back from the Dead: Her husband, at the end of the film.