Johnny Belinda
Movie • 1948 • Drama
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A small-town doctor helps a deaf-mute farm girl learn to communicate.
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Starting at about 37 minutes in. Locky corners Belinda in the barn, forcibly kisses her twice, and then advances on her menacingly before the scene cuts to black.
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Locky rapes Belinda, in a scene that starts about 37 minutes in. Although the scene is not graphic, it is central to the plot of the movie.
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Cow with birthing pains--both cow and calf make it through safely. And we get to see the calf and it's really cute.
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Is rape mentioned?
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The word "rape" is never used, but various characters talk about what happened to Belinda, using wording like "a betrayal" or "the man that hurt her."
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MacDonald manhandles his daughter Belinda a few times, and threatens to beat her once. In fact there are a lot of moments where various men roughly grab various women.
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Is there body horror?
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Belinda's pregnancy from a rape she can't fully remember certainly counts as body horror to me.
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Are there fat jokes?
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I don't know if you could really call them "jokes," but Locky, the villain, does insult the local shopkeeper's weight. The doctor also tells the shopkeeper he needs to lose weight, although he doesn't make a joke out of it.
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
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Oh my, YES. Belinda is deaf and mute, and the entire village, (including her own family at first), treat her like she can't think and doesn't have feelings. We don't even learn her name for a while because everybody just calls her "Dummy." Later, they try to take her baby away from her, justifying it based on her disability.
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Safe to say Locky viewed Belinda this way during the rape scene.
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Are needles/syringes used?
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During the childbirth scene.
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Are there bugs?
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MacDonald finds some sort of grub on his crops. Only comes up once.
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Is there gun violence?
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One scene, toward the end of the movie.
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Is the r-slur used?
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No, but everyone in the village calls Belinda "Dummy" instead of using her name.
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After the rape, Belinda seems listless, and flinches whenever a man touches her. The doctor claims that she has a mental block which protects her from remembering the event too closely. In a later scene, someone offers Belinda brandy. A few notes of music from the rape scene play, and Belinda turns away from the brandy, suggesting that the smell might be triggering a flashback for her. (Locky was drunk when he raped her.) Something similar happens during Belinda's second confrontation with Locky: the music from the rape scene plays again, and some of the blocking is the same, like Belinda is going through the same thing again.
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Does someone drown?
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Don't know if that's actually what killed them (it could have been the rocks), but someone is pushed into a body of water and dies.
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Is an infant abducted?
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No, but this nearly happens. Stella tries to trick Belinda into giving her her baby, then Locky tries to take the baby by force. They are both thwarted and the baby is never taken from Belinda.
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Is someone restrained?
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During the rape scene, Locky grabs hold of Belinda and keeps her trapped as she struggles. She is also restrained by a courtroom official in the trial scene at the end of the movie.
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Is there childbirth?
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Yes, the scene starts at about 1:03:20. Non-graphic. Also for whatever it's worth, toward the beginning of the movie there is another (non-graphic) scene where a cow gives birth.
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Does a pregnant person die?
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In the backstory -- Belinda's mother died in childbirth.
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Does the abused become the abuser?
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Is someone disabled played by able-bodied?
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Yeah, Jane Wyman was neither deaf nor mute in real life.
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Several instances of manhandling, and during their second confrontation Locky shoves Belinda hard enough to knock her to the ground, but no slaps.
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Maybe some of this. At times Belinda doesn't seem to know why or how she got pregnant. Dr Richardson explains that she has a mental block which protects her from remembering the rape in too much detail. The doctor claims that she could not say who raped her, although she has a reaction to seeing Locky in church that seems to suggest she remembers *something.*
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Is a male character ridiculed for crying?
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Aggie asks a crying MacDonald "what are you bawling about?" MacDonald has an extremely sympathetic reason for crying at that moment and it does kind of sting to hear.
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Does someone lose their virginity?
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Yes, if rape counts.
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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Locky gets drunk before he attacks Belinda.
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Is someone watched without knowing?
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Locky watches Belinda dancing without her being aware.
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Does someone fall to their death?
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Two characters fight each other on a cliff's edge, and one pushes the other, who falls into the water and does not survive.
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Is someone kidnapped?
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No, but the climactic scene centers around an attempt to kidnap Belinda's baby.
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In the trial scene at the end of the movie.
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Is religion discussed?
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Everyone in the village (except maybe the doctor) is religious. Church is the main social event and we sometimes see characters pray.
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Does a baby cry?
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Several times.
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Are there natural bodies of water?
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Movie takes place in a coastal fishing village.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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Does someone die by suicide?
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Is there a hospital scene?
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Belinda is examined by a specialist physician in his non-hospital office.
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Are there babies or unborn children?
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Unavoidable in the second half of the movie.
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