Freaks
Movie • 1932 • Drama
ReportA circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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She deserved it but very much she was made into a spectacle
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Is someone stalked?
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Cleo stalks Hans.
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Cleo tries to kill Hans.
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Does the abused become the abuser?
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Is someone gaslighted?
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Hans is gaslit in his relationship with Cleo.
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Smoking and drinking.
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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Cleo gets very drunk in one scene.
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Are animals abused?
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a seal is seen being put into a cage
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Is someone burned alive?
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During a fight, a character is slammed into a stove and burned
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Is there amputation?
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Cleo’s legs are cut off offscreen.
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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glitterpop95
Hercules is castrated in the original version.
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Does someone become unconscious?
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spoiler: when hans is poisoned, he pass out for a moment.
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Is someone tortured?
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As punishment for trying to kill Hans, Cleopatra is mutilated so severely that she becomes a “freak” herself, forced to live out the rest of her days as a horrifying sideshow attraction. It’s very disturbing, even though she’s the villain
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Is there eye mutilation?
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Cleo’s eye is gouged out.
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Does someone cheat?
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glitterpop95
Hans cheats on Freida.
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Are there clowns?
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The clown is the good guy
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Does someone spit?
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A character spits near the beginning of the movie
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Large-scale Violence
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petezaparti
In a movie released in 1932? What do you think?
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Does someone attempt suicide?
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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Is there body dysmorphia?
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The antagonists often mock and shame the other characters' deformities, but overall this movie encourages body positivity thowards people with special habilities and physical deformities.
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Does someone die by suicide?
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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There is a lightning storm but nothing bothersome.
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Are there babies or unborn children?
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127saturn
someone is said to have given birth, but the baby is not shown to the audience
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Is there childbirth?
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bethdotjpg
It's mentioned that the bearded lady gives birth offscreen and characters go to visit her post-birth, but the process of childbirth itself is not shown. Thought it was worth mentioning in case that could be upsetting for anyone.
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
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WesAndersonRocksMySocks
The entire movie revolves around the hatred and prejudice against people with disabilities, who are called “freaks” even by the “good guys,” as well as how their only hope at a steady job is to be gawked at in a circus sideshow. While the film sensationalizes the “freaks” and clearly shows off them and their talents (swallowing swords, lighting a cigarette without hands or feet) in the same manner a circus would, the point is that the behavior of the “normal people” Cleopatra and Hercules is far more sinister than anything the “freaks” would normally do. In the end, there is a somewhat muddled anti-ableism message
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
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glitterpop95
Josephine Joseph wears a tuxedo-dress costume, but she is indeed a woman.
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WesAndersonRocksMySocks
One of the “freaks” in the movie is a “half man half woman.” Jokes are repeatedly made about what to refer to this person or if they are two people, and the two sides are referred to as “he” and “she” respectively.
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Is a minority is misrepresented?
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The word “midget” is used.
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Is there hate speech?
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Lots of disparaging remarks about the “freaks,” such as a man calling them “monsters” due to their disabilities.
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Not on screen, but the actors playing Hans and Frieda were siblings in real life and thus their romance scenes had to be toned down significantly.
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Does it have a sad ending?
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WesAndersonRocksMySocks
Good triumphs over evil, and the movie ends with one happy couple and one couple reconciling after almost being torn apart. However, the path to this happy ending was extremely violent and gruesome
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Does a car crash?
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But a horse-drawn carriage does
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Is there blood/gore?
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glitterpop95
Minimal.
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Is there gun violence?
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You see a gun in a threatening light but it is not used on screen
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