The Girl with the Needle
Movie • 2024 • Drama
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Struggling to survive in post-WWI Copenhagen, a newly unemployed and pregnant young woman is taken in by a charismatic elder to help run an underground adoption agency. The two form an unexpected bond, until a sudden discovery changes everything.
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Abandonment
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Many babies are given up for what they believe to be adoption.
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A woman leaves her husband without saying goodbye for a while.
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The main character is
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A mom slaps her child and makes her nose bleed
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Lots of drug use, including morphine and a tincture of what is possibly laudanum.
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Morphine and ether are used throughout
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A woman is given a very invasive examination to prove she is pregnant. She was not expecting it and the consent is a bit dubious. It is obviously a distressing experience for her.
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Is someone held under water?
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A little girl
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Is someone's mouth covered?
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A little girl tries to smothe a baby, though you don't see it on camera (but you can hear it)
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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The protagonist tries to perform an abortion on herself with a needle
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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A girl tries to smother a baby and you can actually hear it struggling
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Does someone fall to their death?
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a woman jumps out a window, but she survives.
a woman jumps out a window, but she survives.
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Are any teeth damaged?
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The main character's husband's jaw is badly damaged.
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Not quite but there is a disfigured man who was wounded in the war.
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Is there eye mutilation?
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A woman is asked to insert her finger into the empty eye socket of a man who had lost the eye during the war. It is shown but not in graphic detail.
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Is someone crushed to death?
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Does a kid die?
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The murder of many babies is mentioned.
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Creepy Crawly
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Death
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Does a family member die?
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A woman's baby dies
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Does someone cheat?
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Fear
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Is there a shower scene?
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Gross
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Near the end of the film Karolina joins her husband at the circus. She collapses, there is a shot through a window of a caravan of the performers eating, then inside we see Karolina getting up from bed. She drinks what I think is lighter fluid/alcohol out of a lamp and immediately brings it back up again, then Vs again into a receptacle, then kneels on the floor and r*tches/coughs only. There is little to no visual, if there was it was very light. The audio is also not very bad, it happens very quickly, personally I didn't find it that triggering and closing eyes/blocking ears would be okay for some people and for other I recommend leaving after Karolina has collapsed, for a couple minutes.
Also, a little before this (so still in the third act) when Karolina is living with Dagmar, after a huge reveal, (you will know which one in the movie), Karolina is in Dagmar's bed suffering from the knowledge of what she has learnt, Dagmar is bringing her food and over the next few days the room gets particularly messy. Due to the film being black and white it's quite difficult to tell what certain stains on the bed and around them are, and if things are just spilt food as they're eating soups and porridges. Its ambiguous but there is nothing actively triggering, mostly in the corner of shots/not the focus, but I thought I'd mention it anyway JIC
Also, a little before this (so still in the third act) when Karolina is living with Dagmar, after a huge reveal, (you will know which one in the movie), Karolina is in Dagmar's bed suffering from the knowledge of what she has learnt, Dagmar is bringing her food and over the next few days the room gets particularly messy. Due to the film being black and white it's quite difficult to tell what certain stains on the bed and around them are, and if things are just spilt food as they're eating soups and porridges. Its ambiguous but there is nothing actively triggering, mostly in the corner of shots/not the focus, but I thought I'd mention it anyway JIC
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Is there defecation?
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Is there incarceration?
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It is not shown, but a woman is arrested and later convicted and it can be presumed she spends time in jail.
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A character does throw themselves out a window, but appears to be as okay as you can be after doing that
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Does someone attempt suicide?
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Is there misophonia?
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Around 26 minutes when the masked man is eating. Later, around 50 minutes, similar thing. At 1:06:30, when the young girl suckles at the woman's breast, you great sucking sounds.
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A man has PTSD from serving in WWI. He suffers from severe flashbacks.
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Does someone have a mental illness?
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One character has obvious PTSD with violent flashbacks. Dagmar is also almost certainly mentally ill.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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Someone with PTSD has a violent flashback. He does not hurt his wife but he yells a lot and it almost seems like something might happen.
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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Maybe? Some of the apartments and rooms are a bit cramped and it appears to be intentionally evoking that feeling in the viewer.
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Noxious
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Some scenes were shot with a hand-held camera, but nothing too severe
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Does a baby cry?
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YES, frequently. If this is a trigger, you should avoid this movie. Many babies cry out in distress or pain.
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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Film starts with a brief dream scene (lots of close-up faces transitioning into each other) cut very rapidly to create a strobing effect. Midway there’s a short scene at a cinema auditorium, the film is very flickery and the light reflects onto the characters. Some shots with small flames.
Thirty minutes before the end there is a dreamlike scene during a thunderstorm outside with lightning flashes into the room. A few minutes later the opening dream imagery returns, again briefly.
Thirty minutes before the end there is a dreamlike scene during a thunderstorm outside with lightning flashes into the room. A few minutes later the opening dream imagery returns, again briefly.
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Pregnancy
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Is there childbirth?
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Yes a woman goes into labor and gives birth.
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Are there babies or unborn children?
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It is a major element of the film. Many babies are shown close up.
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Are there abortions?
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A pretty brutal attempt at self-abortion is depicted
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Is there hate speech?
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
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A desfigured man is called "a monster" and works as a circus "freak"
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Sexism
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Is someone homeless?
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Does someone drown?
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Baby is drowned
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