Does the dog die?
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When the Wind Blows
Movie • 1986 • Animation
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With the help of government-issued pamphlets, an elderly British couple build a shelter and prepare for an impending nuclear attack, unaware that times and the nature of war have changed from their romantic memories of World War II.
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Not really a scene but the credits songs ends with a morse code message that says "MAD" repeatedly (As in Mutually Assured Destruction)
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The couple in the movie is loving and playful. However, the husband does panic at one point, and he calls his wife a b***h
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Is someone gaslighted?
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No, but the main characters are constantly lying to themselves, either out of genuine ignorance or as a way of coping
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Does the abused become the abuser?
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Poor sheep
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Is there a dead animal?
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A pigeon is shown dying, as well as several sheep during the nuclear blast. None of this is especially graphic
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Is an animal sad?
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When the couple venture outside a couple of days after the attack, they hear a dog barking and howling in a distressed manner.
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Are there bugs?
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There wasn't a section for this but there's a part where the wife finds a rat in the toilet (shown explicitly) and this can be triggering for some people the same way spiders and snakes are. The scene is a bit distressing anyway because it starts with her screaming
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Is there body horror?
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The movie shows the main characters slowly dying of radiation poisoning. A generally ill appearance and blue spots is as bad as the graphic depiction gets, and the characters, while suffering, still naively think they'll be okay, so all the symptoms are downplayed
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Is someone burned alive?
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I would say being in a nuclear explosion would be considered being burned alive, though we don’t really see any people being exploded.
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Is someone buried alive?
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The main couple gets into potato bags before dying and that was considered as protocol for keeping bodies after a nuclear attack, but they don't know, and die shortly after getting in.
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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The radiation sickness gets both main characters very weak overall
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Are any teeth damaged?
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A character bleeds gums, but teeth themselves aren't damaged.
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Does a major character die?
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[SPOILER] though it does not happen on screen, it is heavily implied that both main characters are inevitability going to succumb to radiation sickness when they crawl into potato sacks
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Does a parent die?
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[SPOILER] Jim and Hilda discuss their son at multiple points in the film, thusly their deaths at the end constitute parental death, even though you do not see the son’s reaction (as it is implied he died in the nuclear blast)
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Is a child's toy destroyed?
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A wedding photo which could have a similar emotional value gets destroyed in the blast tho
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Are there jump scares?
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The rat scene is a bit sudden, but it's as close as it gets
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Does someone vomit?
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People vomit from radiation sickness.
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Is there defecation?
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There's no poop, but one character finds a rat in the toilet and screams really loudly.
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Does someone have cancer?
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characters have radiation sickness with similar effects
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Does someone die by suicide?
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Does someone attempt suicide?
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Is autism misrepresented?
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I'd say it's actually perfectly represented /lh
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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I don't know if you can consider it PTSD but one character who lived through the blitz in ww2 gets unusually verbally violent when hearing the siren of a nuclear attack. He's really sweet during all the movie but gets completely out of character and agressive out of wanting to protect his wife. He then comes back to normal
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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The two main characters spend much of the movie in a very small makeshift nuclear shelter.
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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The bomb scene itself starts with a flash of light but it's not bad enough to trigger any kind of epilepsy
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Are there sudden loud noises?
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There's a scene where the wife screams over a rat in her toilet, it can catch you off guard. The bomb scene isn't handled in a jumpscary way, however
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No, but there's a light hearted joke about a character's grandfather being a jew
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Does an LGBT person die?
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There are no explicitly LGBT characters in the movie
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Does it have a sad ending?
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At the end of the film, both main characters succumb to radiation sickness.
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Is there blood/gore?
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There aren't really graphic depictions of blood or gore in the movie, just physical symptoms of radiation sickness
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Is there a nuclear explosion?
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This is the centerpiece of the movie.
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There's also some kind of animal corpse during the part where Hilda reckons she can smell "roast beef" which might be a dog or a cat.