Turtles All the Way Down
Movie • Drama
ReportTurtles 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.
This movie contains 33 potentially triggering events.
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Is there domestic violence?
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Does the abused become the abuser?
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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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Not technically, however there is mention of a lizard being tested on after the movie takes place. Completely off screen.
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there is a brief image of a lizard
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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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a person with ocd picks at a blister on her finger repeatedly
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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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in that the character is afraid of infection so her reality is constant body horror, basically
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passing out after a car crash
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a finger injury that the person keeps picking at and re-bandaging
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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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Not excessive, but there is a car crash scene with blood
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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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Off screen
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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
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two dead dads, one at the beginning of the story
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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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Actually you CAN see it, and there’s music playing so you can’t hear anything. She gets sick right after her mom comes into the bathroom
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Not a mental institution, however multiple scenes in a hospital and at a therapists office
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One character has ocd, sees a therapist, and takes medication
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the main character keeps opening a blister on her finger because of her fear of infection
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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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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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in that the main character ingests soap because she's afraid of infection
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there are thought spirals that may be related to anxiety
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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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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a man is caught on video
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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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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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There is nothing sexual unless someone saying “doing it” is considered sexual
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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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tire screech during a car crash
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It’s a little sudden and could definitely be triggering for some people. Everyone is okay, but it’s very emotional
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