The Piano Teacher

Movie • 2001 • Drama  

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Erika Kohut, a sexually repressed piano teacher living with her domineering mother, meets a young man who starts romantically pursuing her.
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erika's mother destroys her dresses and emotionally abuses her
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The daughter (40+) assaults her mother (60+)
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Is rape mentioned?
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milosfish
(SPOILERS) Erika is sexually assaulted at the end of the film.
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burntheworm
erika slaps her mother as stated, and walter slaps erika later in the movie
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Maybe the most triggering SA I’ve seen on screen.
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a student puts her hand into a coat pocket full of crushed glass and her hand is permanently disfigured.
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Is someone choked?
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The main character cuts her own crotch with a razorblade

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a young girl's hand is mutilated with broken glass
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Unhinged.but.handsome
She stabbed herself in the chest. But not deep. It wasn't fatal
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no, but erika's father is dead at the start of the movie.
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burntheworm
the main character cuts herself with a razor
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ycats33
V**t Indiscretion Shot: Erika's fellatio on Walter ends with her p**ng on the ground.

sorry not sure when
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burntheworm
no, but there is urinating.
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Is there incarceration?
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Is an LGBT+ person outed?
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Are there transphobic slurs?
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Is there deadnaming or birthnaming?
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no, but there is genital bleeding that is assumed to be menstruation
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burntheworm
no, but they are mentioned. erika's father is said to have died in one, and there is talk of getting her hospitalized.
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willgodforgiveus
Yes, but Erika's mental illnesses are only implied through her actions
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Anonymous
Well. If you see the movie to the end, she tries and maybe even bleeds to death.
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Is there misophonia?
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
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Is reality unstable or unhinged?
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Are there anxiety attacks?
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Is there autism specific abuse?
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Is autism misrepresented?
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Noxious
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Are there sudden loud noises?
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Does a baby cry?
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Anonymous
A teen
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burntheworm
erika stalks walter and often watches characters without their knowledge. walter later tells erika that he watched her through her window and masturbated.
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Is there childbirth?
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Are there babies or unborn children?
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Is a baby stillborn?
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Prejudice
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Are there fat jokes?
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Is there hate speech?
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Is there aphobia?
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Race
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Relationships
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burntheworm
yes, but not a pedophilic one. the main plot is about a woman in her 40s courting a college student.
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Are there demons or Hell?
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Sex
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Is there bestiality?
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Are there nude scenes?
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Is someone sexually objectified?
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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ducksinalagoon
Erika forcefully kisses and gropes her mother. This happens before the SA by Walter.
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willgodforgiveus
While Erika is stated to be a virgin in the book, the movie doesn't discuss her being a virgin or not
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Sexism
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Sickness
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Is someone terminally ill?
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Social
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Is existentialism debated?
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Is someone homeless?
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Spoiler
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Does it have a sad ending?
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Vehicular
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Is there a nuclear explosion?
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Does someone drown?
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