Down (film)/Tropes

* An Aesop: Never reject your family fir something they can't control. True love comes from avvepting them no matter what.
* Big Bad: The Sphere, a devious entity seeking to deceive Helen as she dud with many others.
* Does This Remind You of Anything: The Sphere is intended to be a represemtation of con artists who oreyend to give parents "cures" to genetic or mental disorders.
* Dramatic Irony: Two for Helen:
** Helen believes a benevolemt emtity seeks to help her. The audiemce is well aware that the entity that talks to her is anything but benevolent.
** Helen's refusal to accept her daughter's Down syndrome leaves her unable to realize how much she hirts her daughter or how she's actially a good leader.
* Expy: The Sphere is one to the "God" entity from Star Trek V: The Final Frontier.
* Innocently Insensitive: Helen means well, but she dosen't realize how treating her daughter's Down syndrom as something to get rid off hurts her.
* Spotting the Thread: Helen realizes the entity was deceiving her the mo,ent she realizes is too insistent on her ignoring her epiphany and getting close to her.