The Shape of Water

Movie • 2017 • Drama  

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An other-worldly story, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1962, where a mute janitor working at a lab falls in love with an amphibious man being held captive there and devises a plan to help him escape.
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Does the dog die?
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Anonymous
There are no dogs in The Shape Of Water.
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Unanswered Triggers
Is there audience participation?
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Is there smoke or haze?
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Abandonment
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Is an animal abandoned?
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SiRenfield
The female lead’s backstory involves being found abandoned near the river as an infant. Although this is only described and not shown on screen
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Abuse
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Is someone gaslighted?
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Is someone stalked?
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CharlieCharlie
The antagonist of the film hunts down the antagonist once he learns her identity. He enters her home and breaks things - could be triggering.
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Is a child abused?
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VinnythePoet
The main antagonist’s children are dismissed out of hand, but he never directs his anger toward them. Still, the coldness might be uncomfortable for some viewers
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idk_if_helpful
The main antagonist continues to have sex with his wife even when she starts objecting
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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Is someone abused with a belt?
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Are there abusive parents?
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Addiction
Is there addiction?
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Berry
The main antagonist is constantly consuming painkillers after an accident with the fish man

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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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idk_if_helpful
The main antagonist liberally uses painkillers
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Animal
Were animals harmed in the making?
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Does a horse die?
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Does an animal die?
(besides a dog, cat or horse)
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A cat is killed. He is eaten by the amphibian
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Are animals abused?
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vermin
Without classifying the asset as human or not, a cat is consumed and beheaded.
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idk_if_helpful
The fish creature eats a cat's head on-screen, then tosses the rest away
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Is an animal sad?
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Are rabbits harmed?
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Does a cat die?
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Todd Manning
Ahhh!!! If you’re a cat person once it gets to the scene where he gets out of the tub and the older man is asleep on the toilet - cover your eyes and ears for about 3 minutes.
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Does a pet die?
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Jwolf
A cat is eaten for food by the creature.
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Does a dragon die?
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Are there spiders?
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Are there alligators/crocodiles??
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Are there snakes?
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Are there sharks?
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Are there bugs?
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Assault
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Corellon
The villain has sex with his wife that is initially very consensual, but when she starts to express discomfort, he covers her mouth with a grotesquely wounded and bloody hand and keeps going.
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malovela
A very humanoid being is kept in chains, which includes him wearing a large metal ring around his neck.
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SiRenfield
I mean arguably we do witness a marital rape in the sense that the wife tried to retract consent but the husband isn’t having any of it
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Is someone held under water?
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Does a woman get slapped?
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Is there pedophilia?
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Is someone drugged?
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Is someone beaten up by a bully?
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Is someone's mouth covered?
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Is rape mentioned?
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rozandro
No, but it does depict the main antagonist of the film continuing sex with his wife after she starts objecting
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Bodily Harm
Is someone crushed to death?
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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Does a head get squashed?
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Is someone burned alive?
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Anonymous
Oh my god there is so much finger mutilation.
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Is someone buried alive?
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Is someone stabbed?
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Is someone choked?
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Is there cannibalism?
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Is there body horror?
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rotbrains
near the end a man gets shot in the face and his eye starts to bleed and kinda go upwards, nasty.
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Are there dislocations?
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JadedUmbra
The wounds in this movie are... disturbingly realistically portrayed. One man is repeatedly shot and then, while still alive and begging, drug around by a bullet hole in his cheek. Akin to a fish on a hook.
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BelleFiction
The sea creature slits the villains throat
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pedanther
The main antagonist's hand is injured and doesn't get properly treated; it gets infected and its condition deteriorates dramatically over the course of the story. There's a more detailed description in the "finger/toe mutilation" item.
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Does someone asphyxiate?
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The creature is seen gasping for oxygen several times in the film because his lungs only work out of water for a limited time
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Does someone become unconscious?
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vermin
Y’all. If someone loses a finger, they had to break a bone in the process.
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Is someone tortured?
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SEAGULLaahh
The fish dude gets tortured by the security chief and Elisa has to helplessly watch him suffer.
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the cat
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a man loses his fingers and they are reattached
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Are any teeth damaged?
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malovela
No. We do see people walking both up and down stairs.
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Does someone fall to their death?
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Is there Achilles Tendon injury?
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Anonymous
No cutting that I noticed, but there are some scars that look like cut marks across the main character's neck that she received as a child.

The creature does accidentally scratch one of the characters when startled, causing claw marks across their arm.
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Does someone have a seizure?
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Is there a hanging?
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Children
Is a minor sexualized?
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Is an infant abducted?
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Does a kid die?
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goblinlovr
No children die but there are children present briefly in the movie. the main antagonist has a son. he has literal speaking lines.
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Creepy Crawly
Are there bedbugs?
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Death
Does someone sacrifice themselves?
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pedanther
There's an element of ambiguity to what happens to one of the main characters during/after the climactic confrontation, but taken at face value the character apparently survives. A fairly significant supporting character does get killed.
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Does someone die?
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Does a non-human character die?
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Disability
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SiRenfield
In the sense that Sally Hawkins is not mute and doesn’t have those throat scars I guess. Then again…


[SPOILERS] those scars are actually gils so grey area there
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Is the r-slur used?
34 supporters
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tasseomancer
Not specifically the r-word, but there is a lot of ableist language towards and about the non-verbal main character
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Drugs/Alcohol
Does someone overdose?
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Family
Does a parent die?
28 supporters
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Anonymous
Technically yes, as one character who possibly dies off-screen is a father.
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Does someone cheat?
27 supporters
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pocketbee
a man makes (harassing) sexual advances to a woman, while he's already married and has kids
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Is a child's toy destroyed?
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Does a family member die?
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Is someone kidnapped?
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Crow75
The water creature was kidnapped by the military and brought to the facility.
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Fear
Is trypophobic content shown?
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Are there mannequins?
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Are there natural bodies of water?
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Are there razors?
S.A.F.E. ALTERNATIVES® (1-800-DONTCUT)
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Are there clowns?
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Is someone possessed?
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Mary Magpie
Quite a bit of nudity (mostly from main character) in this film. She is shown naked in a tub masturbating twice. She gets naked again and gets in the shower with the creature. She's also naked again with him in the bathroom shortly after.
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Are there ghosts?
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Maureen Broderick Walters
Fairly mild jump scares
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Gross
Does someone wet/soil themselves?
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Is there farting?
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Is someone eaten?
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SiRenfield
No humans far as I can recall but Poor kitty :(
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Does someone vomit?
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Anonymous
Couple of times you think someone might be about to vomit, but they never do. I didn't notice anyone spitting, though I could be wrong.
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Is there audio gore?
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CharlieCharlie
Yes, when the man removes his fingers.
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Is there on-screen pooping?
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Does someone spit?
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Large-scale Violence
Are there 9/11 depictions?
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
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Is there incarceration?
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LGBTQ+
Is there bisexual cheating?
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8
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Are there transphobic slurs?
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Is there deadnaming or birthnaming?
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Yes
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pedanther
A character is not forcibly outed, but there is an uncomfortable scene where a gay character is rejected by somebody whose good opinion he values after voluntarily revealing his orientation.
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Loss
Is a priceless artifact destroyed?
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Medical
Is there a mental institution scene?
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Corellon
A cattle prod is used as torture, but no therapy is involved.
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Anonymous
At one point a security guard (minor character) is injected in the neck with a hypodermic needle.
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Is there a hospital scene?
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Is there menstruation?
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Does someone have cancer?
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Mental Health
Is there autism specific abuse?
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Is there body dysphoria?
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6
Is there body dysmorphia?
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Is there D.I.D. misrepresentation?
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Is autism misrepresented?
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5
Is a mentally ill person violent?
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Yes
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5
Yes
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Is there ABA therapy?
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5
Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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7
Is there misophonia?
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Yes
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Lachesis
Shouldn't we consider the scene where the bad guy torns his own rotten fingers out self harm?
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Does someone have a meltdown?
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Does someone have a mental illness?
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Are there anxiety attacks?
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Is reality unstable or unhinged?
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
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Yes
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malovela
The water being is kept in a small tank some of the time.
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Noxious
Does a baby cry?
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Are there sudden loud noises?
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Is there shakey cam?
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46
Is there obscene language/gestures?
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Are there underwater scenes?
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Is there screaming?
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0
Are there flashing lights or images?
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Paranoia
Is the fourth wall broken?
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8
Is someone watched without knowing?
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Pregnancy
Is a baby stillborn?
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8
Are there abortions?
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Is there childbirth?
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25
Does a pregnant person die?
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24
Are there babies or unborn children?
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8
Does someone miscarry?
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Prejudice
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pocketbee
a white bad guy uses a bad term for jewish people, and refers to anti-semitism in a pretty dismissive way
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Is there aphobia?
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CharlieCharlie
No black people die in this movie.
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Is a minority is misrepresented?
34 supporters
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4
Are there fat jokes?
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Yes
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No
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CharlieCharlie
No slurs, but a character is homophobic to a gay man.
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CharlieCharlie
No, but this movie does show a homophobic scene. A gay man is told to leave a restaurant (this movie does take place in 1950's America).
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pocketbee
ableist remarks against the main mute character, ableist fetishization from her boss. she is also shown singing (stereotype of disabled people becoming abled in their dreams/fantasies)
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
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Yes
5
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fluffy8uns
There is one scene where they say the word "n*gro" in television on what seems to be a news report. There are also several uncomfortable period-accurate racist scenes against black americans.
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Is there hate speech?
37 supporters
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pocketbee
black people thrown out of white spaces & belittled, anti-jewish remark, ableism, homophobia. and other racist comments.
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Race
Is there blackface?
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Relationships
Is there a large age gap?
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Religious
Are there demons or Hell?
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4
Yes
2
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2
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SiRenfield
The Amphibian was worshipped by the local indigenous population before he was discovered by the scientists. [MAJOR SPOILERS] and in fact the bad guy’s last words are “you are a god”
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Sex
Yes
71
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0
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Anonymous
There is nudity. There are two female masturbation scenes. There is a heterosexual s*x scene. Anda major plot is the consensual sexual/romantic relationship between the fish man and the female main character.
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SiRenfield
Virginity isn’t established with Eliza, all we really know about her sexual life at the start of the movie is that she makes self-pleasure part of her daily routine
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Is there BDSM?
35 supporters
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SiRenfield
No but the bad guy is a strong advocate of traditional gender roles with women submissive to men and often engages in rather violent sex with his wife. No sane BDSMer would condone this guy obviously (especially as he completely disregards consent) but it could still make sone with this trigger uncomfortable
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Are there nude scenes?
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10
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0
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Triggeredsushi
The villain makes nasty and uncomfortable sexual advances towards our hero in a scary scene.
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3
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SiRenfield
I mean mostly yes but also no. This movie is kind of infamous for being a weird grey area on the Jack Harkness test since both characters are non-verbal but can still communicate via sign language (friendly reminder that the rules stipulate that communication doesn’t have to be exclusively verbal just so long as the non-human entity is sapient and capable of communication). Basically the entire movie being okay with you kind of depends on your tolerance towards Beauty and the Beast-type stories [MAJOR SPOILERS] also the ending opens up the possibility that Elisa may not even be human in the first place
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Sexism
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Sickness
Does someone have a stroke?
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4
Does someone have a chronic illness?
13 supporters
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0
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4
Is there dementia/Alzheimer's?
31 supporters
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0
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4
Is someone terminally ill?
22 supporters
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Yes
0
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4
Social
Are there anti-abortion themes?
36 supporters
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0
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5
Is existentialism debated?
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0
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4
Are there fat suits?
35 supporters
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0
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5
Is someone homeless?
6 supporters
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0
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4
Spoiler
Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
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30
Are there end credit scenes?
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3
Yes
0
No
36
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Anonymous
They end up together in the end
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Vehicular
Is someone hit by a car?
22 supporters
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28
Does a car crash?
23 supporters
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62
No
1
10
Maureen Broderick Walters
A sideswipe to a parked car for humor
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Does a car honk or tires screech?
9 supporters
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5
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0
Does a plane crash?
20 supporters
Yes
0
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34
3
malovela
No flying scenes.
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Violence
Is there a nuclear explosion?
14 supporters
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Does someone drown?
31 supporters
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3
No
38
15
Eric2
Someone is underwater for a good amount of time, they are definitely *not* drowning though and are in fact quite clearly having a nice time
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Is there blood/gore?
65 supporters
Yes
67
No
0
6
azira
A primary source of gore is one of the characters having his fingers bitten off, reattached, and them subsequently rotting off throughout the film (in one scene, he rips them off and throws them at another character). In another scene, a character shoots another through the cheek and sticks his finger through it, pulling him up by the wound. Very squicky, not for the squeamish.
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35
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0
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CharlieCharlie
Yes at least 5 people are shot by the antagonist.
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