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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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A girl is brutally killed by a man in an extended scene that focuses on her helplessness and his power. It’s meant to be a surprise and plot twist, but if you want to be braced for it, it happens when SPOILER the student is refusing to cut the chicken and the teacher walks behind her.
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Is there excessive gore?
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Gore is concentrated to the two first knife scenes.
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Is someone tortured?
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Akemi’s death scene is brutal and extended
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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The disturbed boy in the beginning stabs himself in the neck with a knife and dies
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suicide by knife stab to the neck
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knife suicide early on
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Does it have a sad ending?
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This is a short where things start pleasant and harmonious, and the teacher early on says that his goal is to distract himself from unwanted thoughts, and by the end, he’s totally consumed by the unwanted thoughts.
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Are there abusive parents?
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The dad’s homicidal urges come out in the last scene, where he thinks of killing his son with a knife. It’s unclear if he does, but the implication is heavy.
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Is there audio gore?
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Kurosawa’s strongest skill is his sound work, and the squelchy knife sounds are meant to be central to your ears. Mute it after the boy says he’ll prove to the teacher that he’s got a robot in his head and when the girl refuses to cut up the chicken.
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
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The mentally ill boy is described only as “odd” and is avoided
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
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No formal eating disorders, but disturbed relationships with food are very present throughout. A disturbed boy overly chops onions, stabs bread, and burns food. A girl is disgusted by the texture of raw chicken and talks about it at length. The family accumulates an impossible amount of cans in a single day.
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Is there copaganda?
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The detective is pleasant but kind of useless
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Is there cannibalism?
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No, but the proximity of violence to humans and food preparation could put you on edge.
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Is there shaving/cutting?
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Knife violence is central to this short.
1) a boy slowly penetrates his own neck with a knife
2) a girl is attacked by a man with a knife, who stabs her a few times in an extended, violent sequence
3) after a failed interview, in the background, a man suddenly rises up and tries to attack someone with a knife. He is stopped.
4) after his son disagrees with him, a father grabs a knife and follows him upstairs. It’s implicative of the violence we’ve seen, but it’s not explicit
1) a boy slowly penetrates his own neck with a knife
2) a girl is attacked by a man with a knife, who stabs her a few times in an extended, violent sequence
3) after a failed interview, in the background, a man suddenly rises up and tries to attack someone with a knife. He is stopped.
4) after his son disagrees with him, a father grabs a knife and follows him upstairs. It’s implicative of the violence we’ve seen, but it’s not explicit
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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The “phenomenon” that occurs in the movie involves characters hearing high pitched ringing and being possessed by sudden, intrusive, impulsive urges to commit violence.
The boy in the beginning does repetitive, violent behaviors, like cutting onions in a dissociated state and stabbing food. He is isolated and dislikes others, and he eventually proclaims (delusion?) that he has a microchip in his head telling him what to do and stabs himself in the neck to “show you.” He’s more traditionally labeled a mentally ill person, being called “odd” and avoided by others.
The protagonist does an interview where he’s displaying manic symptoms and ranting in an untethered way.
An important thing to know when watching this is that the director is very interested in a sort of “cultural sickness,” where this and other films are less interested in “what causes one specific guy to be a killer” and more of “what societal factors cause people to be killers,” and so the mental illness in this short is less grounded in a real, specific mental illness and more focused on retconning acts of violence.
The boy in the beginning does repetitive, violent behaviors, like cutting onions in a dissociated state and stabbing food. He is isolated and dislikes others, and he eventually proclaims (delusion?) that he has a microchip in his head telling him what to do and stabs himself in the neck to “show you.” He’s more traditionally labeled a mentally ill person, being called “odd” and avoided by others.
The protagonist does an interview where he’s displaying manic symptoms and ranting in an untethered way.
An important thing to know when watching this is that the director is very interested in a sort of “cultural sickness,” where this and other films are less interested in “what causes one specific guy to be a killer” and more of “what societal factors cause people to be killers,” and so the mental illness in this short is less grounded in a real, specific mental illness and more focused on retconning acts of violence.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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Is there misophonia?
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It’s a very sound heavy movie. Everything makes sound, and the sound makes people act violently.
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Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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Causality is debatable, but in this short, this happens: the protagonist sees a very violent, personal thing happen to his student, and afterwards, he experiences disturbed behavior that seems related to the inciting incident. We don’t know him long enough to know if he “was that way” already, but because it’s a story where a trauma happens and disturbed behavior and emotions follow, it felt important to highlight.
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Does the abused become the abuser?
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Is someone restrained?
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Most relevantly, in the cafe after the failed interview, a man rises up to kill a woman. He’s apprehended by several bystanders, who restrain him on the ground.
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Does a parent die?
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The mom is mysteriously absent in the last scene.
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Does a woman get slapped?
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Is someone stalked?
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The teacher learns that the disturbed young man from the opening was asking people where he lived, and it makes him wary as he walks back home alone.
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Sound implies derealization throughout, with the final scene being filled with a cacophony of bad noise that drives the protagonist back indoors. What “really happens” in this short is open to interpretation, but you’re following a man who has deeply compartmentalized the violent part of himself, and that disconnect could be triggering.
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Does a family member die?
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Implied son and mom
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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The disturbingly large accumulation of cans - including beer cans - could imply this, along with the disturbed behavior of the protagonist, but it’s never directly tied to alcohol.
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Is someone stabbed?
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Stabbing is CENTRAL to this story.
1) a boy slowly penetrates his own neck with a knife
2) a girl is attacked by a man with a knife, who stabs her a few times in an extended, violent sequence
3) after a failed interview, in the background, a man suddenly rises up and tries to attack someone with a knife. He is stopped.
4) after his son disagrees with him, a father grabs a knife and follows him upstairs. It’s implicative of the violence we’ve seen, but it’s not explicit
1) a boy slowly penetrates his own neck with a knife
2) a girl is attacked by a man with a knife, who stabs her a few times in an extended, violent sequence
3) after a failed interview, in the background, a man suddenly rises up and tries to attack someone with a knife. He is stopped.
4) after his son disagrees with him, a father grabs a knife and follows him upstairs. It’s implicative of the violence we’ve seen, but it’s not explicit
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Is someone possessed?
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The way the “phenomenon” in this movie plays out seems like possessed behavior, where the chile “makes” them kill
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Is there screaming?
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When the girl student is killed, she screams a lot.
When the teacher sees (scene where the chair moves), we don’t see what he sees, but we get close to his face, and he starts screaming because of whatever he’s seeing. The screams themselves are disturbing.
When the teacher sees (scene where the chair moves), we don’t see what he sees, but we get close to his face, and he starts screaming because of whatever he’s seeing. The screams themselves are disturbing.
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Is the fourth wall broken?
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The way sound affects the protagonist with could feel like a fourth wall break. It’s playing with your hearing too.
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Are there ghosts?
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There is a scene where someone says “oh, ___ is upstairs” when we know very well that ___ is dead. When we get up there, there’s a chair pulled out, and there’s confusion about where ___ went. Then, the chair moves. We don’t see what happens, but it causes the protagonist to scream in horror.
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Are there jump scares?
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The stabbing of ____ is very sudden, because the protagonist has been a safe adult until that point. Be on guard in the chicken scene.
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Are there sudden loud noises?
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The stabbing of the student is accompanied by her loud screams.
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Does a kid die?
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Heavily implied that the dad kills his son
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