Does the dog die?
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Perfect Blue
Movie • 1997 • Animation
ReportSynopsis
A retired pop singer turned actress' sense of reality is shaken when she is stalked by an obsessed fan and seemingly a ghost of her past.
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There are no dogs in this movie, however several pet fish die offscreen.
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Abandonment
Is an animal abandoned?
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The main character sees her fish have died, and thinks that she might have neglected them due to her unstable mental state. They're seen alive later, but which reality is the true one is uncertain.
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Abuse
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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One of the big scenes of the movie involves the main character acting as the victim in a rape scene for a TV crime show.
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Is there domestic violence?
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Does an abused person forgive their abuser?
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antagonist forgives and visits her agent at a psych ward at the end of the film (spoiler: the agent was behind everything)
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Is someone gaslighted?
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A character repeatedly reads a blog that describes their routines and day-to-day schedules in detail despite not writing it themselves, and come to rely on it as reality better than their own memory.
A character is also forcibly relocated to a near-perfect copy of their own room.
A character is also forcibly relocated to a near-perfect copy of their own room.
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Is someone abused with a belt?
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Not spanked, but a person's ankles are bound with a belt to restrain them.
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Does the abused become the abuser?
National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233)
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Is someone stalked?
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A main conflict in the movie is the main character being stalked by another character
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Addiction
Is there addiction?
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we see some cigarette smoking but thats all
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Animal
Are animals abused?
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The main character forgets to feed her pet fish for one day and apologizes to them. Later, she finds the fish dead. It is ambiguous if this is due to her forgetting to feed them again, or if it’s due to someone else poisoning them.
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Several fish die. Not brutally but they are either not fed or possibly poisoned.
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Does a pet die?
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some pet fish, but the actual death is not shown on screen, just their little floating bodies :(
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Is there a dead animal?
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Dead fish.
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Assault
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Not "technically". But it might as well be, it's an acted rape scene.
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As a survivor, this film is insanely triggering and i do not recommend. There are two massively triggering scenes that although are not textbook rape, are still assured to trigger you.
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Is there pedophilia?
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No, however the loss of a “pure” and childlike image is arguably a theme of the film, which may be triggering to some survivors of pedophilia. The main character’s image as a pop idol is sanitized and “cute”, whereas when she switches careers to become an actress, she plays a character who is sexually assaulted on screen. She struggles with the idea that this change has negatively impacted people’s perception of her.
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Is rape mentioned?
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Although it's an actress acting out a scene, it's extremely graphic and would be triggering.
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Is someone held under water?
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Main character willingly sits underwater in her bathtub while having an episode
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Does a woman get slapped?
National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233)
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Is someone beaten up by a bully?
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Security guard at the beginning is beat up by some rowdy men
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Is someone restrained?
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the main character has her ankles tied together before escaping
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Bodily Harm
Is there eye mutilation?
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The murderer of the movie, disguised as a pizza deliverer, goes to the house of a photographer who took pictures of the main character nude. She stabs him in the eye with a screwdriver. In another scene a man is shown dead with his eyes gouged out.
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Is someone tortured?
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Not technically torture, but there is a home invasion/murder scene that's rather prolonged.
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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A man is stabbed in the p***s with an ice pick. It's not shown directly, but there is a close up of the ice pick being stabbed into his pants, leaving a small hole gushing blood. Ouch.
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Does a head get squashed?
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Someone is hit in the side of the head with a hammer, but their head is not crushed.
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Are any teeth damaged?
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The stalker character is pictured physically malformed and their teeth are also made to look like that (wonky, couple of teeth missing etc). Teeth are big part of their facial expressions, so they are visible a lot during the stalker's screen time.
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Does someone asphyxiate?
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There is a scene where Mima is holding her head underwater in a bathtub and screaming inaudibly/ with gargled voice and you can see the oxygen disappearing from her mouth. I wouldn't say it is a scene where someone asphyxiates, but if you get triggered by this sort of scenes, I'd keep this in mind.
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Is someone stabbed?
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There's a whole lot of stabbing in the second half of this movie.
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Does someone fall down stairs?
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our main character does fall down a flight of stairs while chasing what seems to be a figment of her imagination, she isn't hurt at all by falling though
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Does someone fall to their death?
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Two people fall from a balcony but don't die.
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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A hand is stabbed.
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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There's a scene near the end where Mima chokes Rumi and she struggles to breath.
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Are any hands damaged?
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She breaks a tea cup in her hands, causing her to bleed.
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Children
Is a minor sexualized?
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Mima isn't a minor (she's 21) but she's sexualized by older men on multiple occasions. It's NOT glorified at all but it happens.
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Creepy Crawly
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Death
Does a non-human character die?
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pet fish
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Does a major character die?
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Multiple characters die, one or two of them being a major character.
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Does someone sacrifice themselves?
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it isn't technically sacrifice, but someone does purposefully impale themselves on a shard of glass in front of the main character
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Disability
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Drugs/Alcohol
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Family
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Is someone kidnapped?
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the main character is assaulted and taken into another room for the purpose of sexual abuse and then murder, and it is also implied that the main character is taken to a strange copy of her own room by the antagonist unknowingly
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Fear
Are there jump scares?
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While Mima is taking the subway her reflection in the door windows briefly changes to her pop idol persona, after this moment there is sudden bright flash and sound akin to thunder.
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Is someone possessed?
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She has dissociative identity disorder and is not possessed by a supernatural force. Her alter is an introject of Mima.
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Is there a shower scene?
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Mima takes a bath at one point.
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Are there ghosts?
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Arguable but I'd say yes. Mima is tormented by a ghostly version of herself.
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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SAFE!
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Is there audio gore?
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Graphic sound effects of characters being stabbed are present
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Large-scale Violence
Are there 9/11 depictions?
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No this was released four years prior to 9/11.
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Law Enforcement
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LGBTQ+
Is a trans person depicted predatorily?
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Not in the movie technically but the in-universe crime drama that the lead is acting in uses this trope. It’s clearly mocking it but just in case I’m marking yes because it can still be a little jarring
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Loss
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Medical
Is there a mental institution scene?
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at the very end. it's brief.
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Is there a hospital scene?
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there are a few shorter scenes that take place in psychiatric care facilities (although some of these are shown to be tv sets)
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Are needles/syringes used?
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There’s a brief, still image of a bloody needle in the background of one scene
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Mental Health
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There is an attempted suicide by a character involving a passing vehicle. They are not successful.
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the antagonist purposely impales themselves on a piece of glass at the end
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Not intentionally per say, but Mima squeezes a teacup until it breaks on her hands
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Is there misophonia?
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intense music, gore audio, screaming, yelling etc.
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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Not exactly mental illness, but main villain is meant to have DID and a movie Mima stars in has her be a killer whose a system.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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DID, which is a trauma-based disorder, is a plot point. Mima is playing a character with the condition in the in-universe detective drama "Double Bind", whose gangrape at a nightclub is depicted in graphic detail. Mima finds filming this scene traumatizing in and of itself. The movie teases the idea that Mima herself may or may not have the disorder, with her losing track of time, seeing hallucinations of her CHAM-era self, and some scenes depicting Mima committing the murders. The movie's plot twist is that Rumi, Mima's manager, is having episodes where she believes she's Mima while carrying out the murders, whether out of psychosis or dissociation (the movie suggests the latter).
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Is reality unstable or unhinged?
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The line between fiction and reality gets blurred repeatedly
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Is there body dysmorphia?
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The true villain turns out to be a middle-aged woman who is an ex-idol singer, much like Mima. It's revealed that she has episodes where she believes she *is* Mima, complete with wearing her (ill-fitting) pop idol clothes. This ties into the themes of idol culture and how it can be exploitative.
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Is there D.I.D. misrepresentation?
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The character Mima is playing in-universe is described as having both DID and killed her sister. The movie plays with the idea that Mima herself may or may not have a dissociative disorder of her own. The plot twist of the movie is that the villain developed a second personality who believes herself to be the real Mima, who goes on to attack the actual Mima before being institutionalized. It's actually a reasonably more accurate depiction of the disorder than how it's typically portrayed in media (caused by trauma, memory loss, confusion, issues with identity, 'missing time', etc.), but still falls into the 'serial killer alter' trope.
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yes, the main character loses her sense of identity and reality as the film progresses
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Does someone have a mental illness?
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DID, a trauma-based disorder, is a major theme throughout. Mima's character in the TV drama is said to have the disorder, and the movie hints at the possibility that Mima might have the disorder herself. The movie's plot twist is that Rumi, Mima's manager, has episodes where she believes she's Mima, implicitly out of dissociation. While the portrayal of the disorder is reasonably accurate (caused by trauma, large amounts of memory loss, missing time, identity confusion, etc.), it does also fall into some potentially questionable tropes.
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Does someone have a meltdown?
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Yes the protagonist has a panic attack after leaving the subway station.
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Natural Disasters
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Noxious
Is there shakey cam?
66 supporters
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the "camera" may not be real but the movement in the shots is meant to emulate motion regardless, there are a couple scenes where mima is running and there a punch shots
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Are there sudden loud noises?
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It is jarring every time a phone rings.
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Is there screaming?
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A lot of screaming from the protagonist.
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Are there underwater scenes?
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character holds herself under in her bath
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Paranoia
Is someone watched without knowing?
22 supporters
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Major theme in the movie with the stalking
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Is the fourth wall broken?
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the last scene the character says something into a mirror and it looks like she’s either looking at herself/straight at the audience
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Pregnancy
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Prejudice
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
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no but the show mima is in has a line that references a transmisogynistic trope of murderers killing women to wear their skin and become women (ex. buffalo bill). luckily this isnt a plot thats in the actual movie
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
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The stalker/antagonist has a visual deformity meant to make him appear more "creepy".
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Is a minority is misrepresented?
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The leader of the "bad kids" that intentionally ruin the concert (shouting, throwing things, etc.) has dark skin and locs. Everyone else in the audience is very pale. Not coincidental.
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Does the black guy die first?
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Very hard to notice, but in a newspaper, it mentions that someone was left critically injured by a hit and run by a main antagonist. The picture seems to be of a dark skinned kid with locs who was rude at the main character's concert, and he was technically the first death. This is really hard to notice, though, and the newspaper is fully in Japanese.
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Are there fat jokes?
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There are no verbal fat jokes, but during a chase scene near the end, a fat character is wearing an outfit too small for them, and the visual effect of the ill-fitting clothing seems to be meant to add to the horror of the scene.
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Race
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Relationships
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Religious
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Sex
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Are there incestuous relationships?
National Sexual Assault Hotline 800.656.4673
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Is there sexual content?
83 supporters
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a lot, and lots of uncensored nudity
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Are there nude scenes?
69 supporters
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Yes, and it happens in sexually exploitative contexts. Mima is asked to film a scene where her character is gang-raped. She is also asked to do a photoshoot with a sleazy photographer, complete with nudity. She comes close to getting raped for real right before the climax. In short, most of the nudity is unsexy due to it happening in creepy scenarios.
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Is someone sexually objectified?
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the main character acts out a rape scene and a scene where they're a stripper, which are sexualized by the producers and film crew, also they do a photo shoot where the photographer pushes her to continue removing clothing and is clearly sexualizing her
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Does someone lose their virginity?
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Not a main plot point by any means, but Mima being gangraped could have been her losing her virginity.
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Sexism
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Sickness
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Social
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Yes
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Is existentialism debated?
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The protagonist constantly asks a vision of her other self "who are you".
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Spoiler
Does it have a sad ending?
89 supporters
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The Japanese dub has had some interpret it to mean the villain actually won. Would say its meant to have the heroine win though.
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Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
10 supporters
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someone young enough to believe in santa should not watch this
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Vehicular
Does a car crash?
33 supporters
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not a crash but someone almost gets ran over twice
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Does a car honk or tires screech?
15 supporters
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there's 2 scenes where someone nearly gets run over by a car
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Is someone hit by a car?
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In two separate scenes characters are almost hit by speeding vehicles. The first scene goes unresolved and potentially didn't happen, the second scene is resolved when one character shoves the other out of the way.
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Violence
Is there blood/gore?
82 supporters
Yes
81
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throughout the entire movie yes. it is extremely bloody
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Does someone drown?
48 supporters
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There is a scene where Mima is holding her head underwater in a bathtub and screaming inaudibly/ with gargled voice and you can see the oxygen disappearing from her mouth. I wouldn't say it is a drowning scene, but if you get triggered by scenes where someone's head is underwater, keep this in mind.
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Is there gun violence?
42 supporters
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0
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There are no guns in the entire film.
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