The hanged dog is a reference to a dream a character has about a world where dogs act like humans, so there is no animal cruelty, it's just a still of a fake dog recalling a person who committed suicide.
Spoilers! In the second plot, the ex husband clearly stalks his ex wife. This already is hinted at the first encounter between the two of them and then is shown at the end.
In a roundabout way in the third story - a woman who is rejected by her cult for being raped proceeds to drug and abduct a young woman. Could be triggering.
There is not explicit child abuse but the dad of a child in the third story is noticeably a horrible person and is shown as the sole caretaker of the child. Emma Stone’s character tells her daughter to stay as far away from him as she can.
In the third story, abstractly— cult members are addicted to the “blessed” water. The protagonist begs for more even while she is exiled, and is disgusted at tap water she pours for herself later.
idk why this says yes. i was actually surprised there was no animal deaths shown considering it’s a yorgos film. there’s a hanging dog in the credits but it’s not real or really apart of the plot. in the third part a dogs arm gets sliced but it doesn’t die. the pet cat didn’t die. no animals died (especially not what the parentheses specify which is other than a dog or cat).
In the third story, Emma Stone’s character is drugged by her husband and sexually assaulted while unconscious. This is shown by showing her upper body for a few seconds. It isn’t necessarily explicit but it is visceral. She washes herself in the bath when she wakes up in the morning in an upsetting way. SPOILERS : There is also a huge plot point in the third story where after this happens, she has become “unclean” and is unable to become clean because of it.
technically, nobody is stabbed by another person. someone does cut their thumb off on screen and also cut their liver out of their body off screen (aftermath is shown). a dog has its leg sliced, but does not die from it.
the only example of a main character dying is emma stone’s character in the second short killing herself, but this is followed by a surreal sequence implying that she was a clone of someone else. other secondary characters die as well
Spoiler- while not possessed by a ghost in a traditional sense, in the second story, Emma Stone and another character are copies of themselves when returning from a trip and, as her husband catches on, we see Emma’s entity is inhuman and nefarious.
(Spoilers) In the third short, Emma Stone’s character, Emily, vomits in a wide shot followed straight after by a close up of the vomit. Happens when she’s on a couch, drinking
most graphic instances include detailed sounds of someone cutting off their own thumb and someone jumping into an empty pool and dying, but not much else has graphic sounds
It’s about a cop on the force, but the story is not an endorsement of police. In fact, it shows how poor mental health of cops can negatively affect innocent civilians
The first short suggests that there was some cheating going on, since the main guy is kinda touchy feely with Willem Dafoe’s character, and it is implied that the guy’s wife does not know the extent that their relationship goes.
toward the end of the first short, an IV is briefly shown being ripped out of someone. toward the end of the third short, a character is stabbed with an epipen looking tranquilizer in the neck. the act is on screen but not graphic at all.
SPOILERS: While not intentional suicide, a character does kill themselves by cutting out their own organ. There is another suicide that happens due to a woman jumping into an empty pool, she does this intentionally. She is shown dead with blood pooling around her head.
SPOILERS: While not intentional suicide, a character does kill themselves by cutting out their own organ. There is another suicide that happens due to a woman jumping into an empty pool, she does this intentionally. She is shown dead with blood pooling around her head.
The first story has a plot line about a woman being secretly given tablets which will make her miscarry. An insert shot of her looking into a toilet with blood inside is shown, and another character says, “They weren’t miscarriages; they were abortions.” The second story has another scene where a woman miscarries due to a beating by her partner
Like Lanthimos' previous film, the film received an R rating for it's depiction of sexual themes ("strong sexual content"), including sexuality as a whole, sex cults and group sex.
Nothing explicit, but discussed/implied: In the second story, a character returns from a shipwreck where others may have drowned (the plot description claims she experienced a “supposed drowning”, too). In the third story, the protagonist describes a dream where she is stuck underwater but specifies she could somehow hold her breath inevitably.