Turtles All the Way Down
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Turtles All the Way Down is a fan-made short film by a small group of college students at Abilene Christian University in Abilene, Texas in the course of just three days. Based upon the novel by John Green (The Fault in Our Stars, Looking For Alaska, Paper Towns), Turtles All the Way Down is about a girl who has OCD and constantly believes she is infected with a disease, she tries to control her thoughts and find her true self. The novel was adapted into a screenplay and directed by Rankin Dean.
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a character takes medicine prescribed for her ocd
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Not addictions to drugs, however impulsive thoughts cause the main character to be addicted to certain behaviors
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there is a brief image of a lizard
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Are animals abused?
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Not technically, however there is mention of a lizard being tested on after the movie takes place. Completely off screen.
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Is someone restrained?
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a character wakes up in the hospital and has to be held down because she's bleeding from the liver but doesn't want to be in the hospital because of ocd
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Is there excessive gore?
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Is there body horror?
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in that the character is afraid of infection so her reality is constant body horror, basically
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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a finger injury that the person keeps picking at and re-bandaging
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Is there shaving/cutting?
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a person with ocd picks at a blister on her finger repeatedly
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Are any hands damaged?
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A main part of this movie is when Aza’s callused finger gets forced open multiple times throughout
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Does someone fall to their death?
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it's not confirmed but the characters assume at the end of the film that a man jumped off a bridge
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passing out after a car crash
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Death
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Does someone die?
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Off screen
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A car with a name is destroyed in a car crash, but it's not a talking character
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she doesn't overdose on medicine but one character does ingest soap because of ocd and has to have her stomach pumped (the stomach pumping is off screen)
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two dead dads, one at the beginning of the story
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two dead dads
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Are there natural bodies of water?
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a river
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Is trypophobic content shown?
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there are a lot of sudden cuts to amoeba or cells that have lots of repeating patterns like a sponge
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2 possible trigger scenes: During the plane scene after aza says she’s nauseous and goes to the bathroom, right after she drinks the hand sanitizer she spits it back out right away. She makes a face like she had swallowed it first but it very much looks like spitting it out not throwing it up. I didn’t hear any noise and that scene wasn’t triggering for me. Later on, the scene in the hospital bathroom I believe there is actually visual.
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Is there a mental institution scene?
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Not a mental institution, however multiple scenes in a hospital and at a therapists office
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It's a bit unclear, but one of the side characters (no speaking lines) likely committed suicide off screen. And the main character has spiraling thoughts during which she says something along the lines that she shouldn't exist, but she doesn't purposefully try to die at any point.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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the main character has what are called thought spirals, which sometimes cause her to get so caught up with her thoughts that she isn't listening to other people talk, possibly dissociation
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One character has ocd, sees a therapist, and takes medication
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in that the main character ingests soap because she's afraid of infection
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the main character keeps opening a blister on her finger because of her fear of infection
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It's unclear, but one side character likely died by suicide
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there are thought spirals that may be related to anxiety
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Aza’s OCD episodes manifest as quick cuts and flashes (mostly images of bacterial microbes), accompanied by static noises, most rapid during a key scene 2/3rds in
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Are there babies or unborn children?
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at the end there is flash forward during which a future child of main character is depicted as a baby
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
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there are discussions ocd and privilege that are well handled but some characters are still a little less than understanding
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the main character compares ocd to living with a demon and calls herself a demon, but there are no literal demons or hell
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Is there sexual content?
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There is nothing sexual unless someone saying “doing it” is considered sexual
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Is existentialism debated?
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free will, infinity, and other topics are discussed at several points
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Does it have a sad ending?
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it's a little sad, but optimistic
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Does a car honk or tires screech?
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tire screech during a car crash
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Does a car crash?
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Quite sudden. A the passenger yells “look out” and happens at 1hr 19 minutes in. Then skips to the aftermath where there id a close up on the back of a car and a firefighter arrives
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