Once Were Warriors
Movie • 1994 • Drama
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A drama about a Maori family living in Auckland, New Zealand. Lee Tamahori tells the story of Beth Heke’s strong will to keep her family together during times of unemployment and abuse from her violent and alcoholic husband.
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The father, Jake, is physically abusive toward his family. A teenage girl also gets raped by a family friend/honorary uncle.
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A major element is Jake being physically abusive towards his family due to being a problem drinker.
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Yes, sometimes Beth (the mother) who is beat by her husband gets drunk and hits her kids
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a bunch of dead fish around 1:50
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the mom
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maynadnad
SPOILERS : main character is raped (on screen) as does her mother (off screen)
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Woman is brutally beaten
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Is someone's mouth covered?
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The teenage daughter is raped in a *very* uncomfortable scene which goes on in literally real time. It's grim.
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Is someone tortured?
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maynadnad
To an extent, SPOILERS : main characters sibling gets heavily beaten up for an initiation ritual into a gang
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The scene is telegraphed and is easy to look away from. There are kicks to genitals interspersed with the fight scene. A broken bottle is presumed to strike the genitals, but is off screen.
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Is there a hanging?
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A teenage girl dies by self-inflicted hanging after experiencing sexual, physical, and verbal abuse.
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Is there shaving/cutting?
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Spoiler: at the end of the movie the protagonist castrates one of his friends with a broken bottle
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We don't see her asphyxiate on screen, but we know she has to have
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Does someone break a bone?
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Literally no one breaks a bone. Why people are voting "yes"?
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Does a kid die?
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young girl committed suicide by hanging herself
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(spoilers) No, but there *is* a successful suicide attempt.
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There's a bath scene, where one of the characters is cleaning her arm
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The main character beats up a lot of characters, including his wife. Screams are heard, and the sound of the hits.
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fraisierdesbois
One of the characters spits blood on her husband's face after being assaulted by him. The people voting "no" really paid attention to the film?
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Is there misophonia?
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Loud eating, breaking glass, hitting sounds, sirens
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A teenage girl gets raped by an older adult and shows signs of trauma afterward, such as being touch averse, desperately trying to clean herself and her belongings, lashing out, and self-isolating. She eventually dies by self-inflicted hanging.
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Briefly in one scene
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No, but there's a racist scene where one character mentions other character's skin color
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Spoiler: One of the protagonist's friends, "Uncle Billy", rapes the protagonist's daughter. He is not actually related to the family, so it's not incest.
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Is there sexual content?
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maynadnad
SPOILERS : The main character (child maybe 13) gets raped by uncle/fathers friend
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NO are you insane. The family runs away from their abusive father, is everyone on this site okay
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