Girl, Interrupted

Movie • 1999 • Drama  

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Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the thin line between normal and crazy. Susanna soon realizes how hard it is to get out once she has been committed, and she ultimately has to choose between the world of people who belong inside or the difficult world of reality outside.
This movie contains 76 potentially triggering events.
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Does the dog die?
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Abandonment
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Shakey
The orderly that Susana likes is moved to a different ward and does not say goodbye to her.
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Ellert
The main characters are all more or less abandoned by their parents. They are not children, but young adults.
They are placed in a mental health facility, but they are all at least emotionally abandoned and some of them also physically abandoned.
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joshhutcherson13
When Daisy kills herself she leaves behind her cat, But Susana takes The cat with her
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Abuse
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greenseaturtle
It is strongly implied that Daisy's father is sexually abusing her. At the very least, Lisa believes this to be true.
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Is someone stalked?
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Is there domestic violence?
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greenseaturtle
Not really for spectacle, but there are several instances of female characters being mistreated by hospital staff and other patients. Lisa is put into compromising restraints and given electroshock therapy, and Lisa herself hits and lashes out at Georgina and Suzanna.
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Anonymous
The character Lisa gaslight about everyone
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michealscarn
Not traditionally however, at the start, Susanna is retrained to a hosptial bed with something that looks like a belt, this is due to her needing her stomach pumped ect,
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Is a child abused?
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scout.
Child sexual abuse heavily implied.
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Addiction
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glastozasto
Characters are seen consistently smoking cigarettes throughout the movie, and taking pills for their mental illness. one girl is clearly addicted to said pills.
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Is there addiction?
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glitterpop95
Underage drinking.
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Animal
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michealscarn
Daisy has a ED and she would eat rotisserie chickens and hide them under her bed, dead chickens body parts aka ribs are seen.
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Does a horse die?
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Does an animal die?
(besides a dog, cat or horse)
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series_of_unfortunate_events
Daisy keeps chicken bones under her bed after she's eaten the meat.
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beagle
Dead chickens body parts aka ribs are seen.
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Is an animal sad?
74 supporters
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greenseaturtle
Daisy's cat is wandering around upstairs meowing in concern on the morning of her suicide. The cat is happily adopted by Polly at the end of the film, though
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Are rabbits harmed?
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Does a cat die?
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OneirosDream
No, the cat is safe.
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Does a pet die?
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Does a dragon die?
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Are there spiders?
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Are there alligators/crocodiles??
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Are there snakes?
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Are there sharks?
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Are there bugs?
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ion.osphere
There are no bugs in the actual movie. However, if you watch the deleted scenes, there is a scene where Susanna sees a bug under her bed.
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Assault
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Shakey
Georgina is slapped by Lisa for turning on a light
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Is someone drugged?
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Anonymous
One of the nurses is drugged
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Is there pedophilia?
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It is hinted at the daisy’s dad is a pedophile
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greenseaturtle
Suzanna is thrown into a bath by Valerie, which can be a bit jarring, but she isn't hurt
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Is rape mentioned?
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gatorgirlgab
They emphasize the word rape in therapist
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Tobybloo
Not necessarily beaten up but one girl hits / slaps another for something harmless and then near the end a girl hits the main character across the head with a book twice
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Ellert
The restraint scenes can be extremely triggering for ppl who have themselves been hurt by the psychiatric systems.
Physical/violent restraining and the systemic restraining that is the removal of basic human rights, by the psychiatric systems.
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HannahWilson
There is no on screen assault but there is mention of assault and incest.
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Is someone's mouth covered?
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No, but at one point it is heavily implied that a character is raped by her own father
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Bodily Harm
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series_of_unfortunate_events
Susanna shaves her legs in the bathtub. Cuts shown on a character's arm at 1 hr 26 min.
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Shakey
Susana slams her hand in a heavy door.
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Are there dislocations?
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Is there throat mutilation?
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greenseaturtle
Suzanna gasps and gags while getting her stomach pumped after her suicide attempt. She makes a full recovery, but the scene is quite graphic.
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Is there decapitation?
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15
Is there cannibalism?
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65
Is someone crushed to death?
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31
Is someone choked?
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series_of_unfortunate_events
A character has scarring on her face from when she was a child and doused herself in gasoline and lit a match.
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Is someone buried alive?
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Is there body horror?
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michealscarn
You see a girl who has burns everywhere from when she set herself on fire
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Is there amputation?
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Does a head get squashed?
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Is there Achilles Tendon injury?
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Is there a hanging?
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BraveSoul
The act is not shown, but the body is shown in a graphic way that will be triggering to those who are sensitive to the topic.
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Does someone asphyxiate?
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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55
Does someone become unconscious?
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series_of_unfortunate_events
Susanna's mom references the time Susanna broke her leg as a baby.
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Does someone have a seizure?
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Are any teeth damaged?
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Anonymous
Near the end, the main character slams her fingers in a heavy door.
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Is someone tortured?
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scout.
Drugged and put into solitary confinement. Lots of screaming.
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Does someone fall down stairs?
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Does someone fall to their death?
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Is there eye mutilation?
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Is someone stabbed?
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Not excessive, but there is a disturbing scene which shows the corpse of a girl who has hung herself and slit her wrists. this isn’t very graphic, it’s more emotionally disturbing than anything
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Children
Is an infant abducted?
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Does a kid die?
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glitterpop95
Daisy, a teenager, hangs herself.
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Ellert
Minors are not sexualized on screen, but there's a lot of hints to at least one character being molested as a child and also currently by her father.
And another character having a "relationship" with her English teacher.
The characters are supposed to be 16-19 years old.
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Creepy Crawly
Are there bedbugs?
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Death
Does someone sacrifice themselves?
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Yes
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Yes, by suicide
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Does a non-human character die?
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14
Does someone die?
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Yes, one important character dies by suicide and it is mentioned very early on that another one did too, but we never meet the latter
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Disability
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greenseaturtle
None of the actors actually have the mental health diagnoses of the characters that they portray, but this is to be expected in Hollywood.
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Is the r-slur used?
28 supporters
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Haunted.house
There is a lot of ableism but the word is never used directly
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Drugs/Alcohol
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Anonymous24
It is mentioned that Suzanna takes a whole bottle of aspirin with a whole bottle of alcohol
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Family
Does a family member die?
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Does a parent die?
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Is a child's toy destroyed?
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TheCassandraComplex
Someone is coerced into going to a mental institution.
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Does someone cheat?
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greenseaturtle
Suzanna sleeps with a married college professor. The wife finds out and confronts her later on in the film.
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Fear
Are there ghosts?
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65
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4
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greenseaturtle
About halfway through the film, Suzanna abruptly wakes up to Lisa looming over her. The camera rapidly cuts to a close-up of Lisa's face and the music crescendoes jarringly.
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27
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35
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HannahWilson
Not shower but someone does take a bath
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greenseaturtle
A large river is seen a few times, but only in the background of a few shots.
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Are there clowns?
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64
Is someone possessed?
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Is trypophobic content shown?
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12
Are there razors?
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0
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Ellert
Someone shaves her legs in a bath
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Are there mannequins?
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16
Gross
Does someone vomit?
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2
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doesthedogdie.comfan
After the first scene, the next scene is Susanna in a hospital with doctors/nurses rushing around her (you will clearly be able to tell that the scene changed, and you have time to mute it after the scene change) and she leans over the side of the bed and v*s, no visual at all but I’ve been told that there was audio, so just mute it until she leans back into the bed
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Does someone wet/soil themselves?
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Is there farting?
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13
Is someone eaten?
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15
Is there on-screen pooping?
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9
Does someone spit?
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8
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43
Is there audio gore?
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44
Large-scale Violence
Yes
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26
0
it takes place in the 60s
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
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Yes
9
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2
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Anonymous
In a way, yes.
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LGBTQ+
Yes
14
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5
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gatorgirlgab
The word transv*stite is used
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jdpamv
Misrepresented but not portrayed as predatory
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Is there deadnaming or birthnaming?
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12
Is there bisexual cheating?
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14
Is an LGBT+ person outed?
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9
Loss
Is a priceless artifact destroyed?
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Medical
Yes
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1
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Anonymous
Although not on screen, one of the characters tells the main character that “they're giving me the shocks again.”
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greenseaturtle
At the very beginning, Georgina is sweeping broken glass off the floor and picks up a full syringe.

Suzanna is forcibly injected with Valium. We see the needle go into her arm.

Finally, at the end, Lisa almost attempts suicide with a syringe full of an unknown substance, but she drops it and doesn't inject herself. This is the same syringe that we saw in the beginning.
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series_of_unfortunate_events
The vast majority of the movie happens within a psychiatric institution. There are some notable instances of staff saying pretty offensive things to patients about their conditions.
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0
At the very beginning the character is in an actual hospital after having OD’d, and most of the rest of the film takes place in a mental hospital
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Is there menstruation?
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7
Does someone have cancer?
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Mental Health
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CMster
Almost every character
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0
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series_of_unfortunate_events
Cuts shown on a character's arm at 1 hr 26 min
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13
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FleetwoodMacNCheez
No one is specifically labeled as autistic, but some characters exhibit traits of autism
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0
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glastozasto
Lisa is consistently agressive and occasionally violent throughout the whole movie.
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greenseaturtle
D.I.D was not a diagnosis in 1967, and no character has it or overt symptoms of it.
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40
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TheCassandraComplex
Some of the subject matter might be triggering for autistic people and autistic women in particular. The film takes place in the 60s in a mental institution for “troubled” young women, so there is plenty of generalized ableism and misogynistic attitudes about women and mental health. There are depictions of forced medication/treatment, restraints, solitary confinement and shock therapy. There are no characters explicitly diagnosed with autism but a few of the characters do have autistic traits.
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gatorgirlgab
Susanna attempts suicide at the beginning and another characters dies by suicide towards the end. The actual act isn’t shown but her body is shown after.
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4
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greenseaturtle
There are frequent flashbacks and dreamlike sequences throughout the film, especially the first half.
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Does someone have a meltdown?
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12
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1
Is there misophonia?
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3
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29
Yes
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0
Lisa crys dungeon
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Is there ABA therapy?
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1
No, but there are horrible therapies used in the sixties such as electro shock therapy mentioned and it is set in a psych ward so if harmful therapies in general are triggering, i’d be careful of watching
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Shakey
Lisa threatens to jam a pen into her neck.
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Is there body dysphoria?
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2
Is there body dysmorphia?
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4
Yes
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7
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scout.
Instances of solitary confinement.
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FormieTueno
Daisy is said to struggle with an eating disorder, she regularly compulsively consumes and an entire chicken from her fathers deli, she is found to have multiple rotting carcasses of such hidden under her bed (representing both his visits which are indicative of incest/rape, and the consumption of the chickens themselves).

There are also mentions of laxative abuse and purging on her part:
Lisa: “You’re a laxative junkie...”
Daisy: “I like my dad’s chicken, and when I eat something else, I puke.”
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series_of_unfortunate_events
Around 1 hr 27 minutes, Lisa taunts a character about how her "safety net" isn't preventing her from wanting to slit her wrists. The character is found hanged and bleeding at 1 hr 32 minutes, which Lisa is rather insensitive.
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Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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40
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2
Noxious
Are there underwater scenes?
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9
Are there sudden loud noises?
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0
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10
Is there shakey cam?
37 supporters
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30
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15
0
scout.
There are erratically filmed shots with quick cuts and quick lighting changes.
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Does a baby cry?
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Yes
1
No
28
Is there screaming?
12 supporters
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Yes
12
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0
Is there obscene language/gestures?
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Yes
19
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0
4
series_of_unfortunate_events
In the bar around 1 hr 22 min
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Paranoia
Is someone watched without knowing?
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2
No
8
Is the fourth wall broken?
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2
No
26
Pregnancy
Is a baby stillborn?
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0
No
26
Does someone miscarry?
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0
No
49
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Dreamdust1600
One of the background women in the mental institution is holding a baby
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Is there childbirth?
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0
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48
Are there abortions?
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0
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48
Does a pregnant person die?
15 supporters
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Yes
0
No
47
Prejudice
Yes
77
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0
6
anjo
lisa tells cynthia she’s a dyke
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greenseaturtle
Mental illness is treated and discussed in a way that was typical in the late 1960s.
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Yes
48
No
6
0
a few characters sing a racist song to valerie when she upsets them
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Yes
1
No
39
Yes
39
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7
7
Vyctor
Not exactly a joke, but at one point Janet gives Susanna a bottle of nail polish saying she got it from “ a transvestite in the mens ward”
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series_of_unfortunate_events
A character mentions a "transvestite in the men's ward," and it's unclear whether this is in referral to a gender-nonconforming man or a trans woman. Either way it's generally considered a derogatory term today.
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Does an LGBT person die?
29 supporters
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0
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52
Are there fat jokes?
52 supporters
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74
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5
series_of_unfortunate_events
Lisa repeatedly makes derogatory comments about people's weight/size.
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Is there aphobia?
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7
Yes
14
No
4
0
Haunted.house
Transgender people are
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55
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series_of_unfortunate_events
Worthy of note that Susanna says some racist things to Valerie during an angry outburst.
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Is there hate speech?
28 supporters
Yes
82
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2
10
mariekalimu
some racist comments during an argument scene
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Race
Is there blackface?
32 supporters
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Yes
0
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11
Relationships
Yes
25
No
2
2
mstryke
Not shown, but implied
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Religious
Is religion discussed?
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7
Are there demons or Hell?
13 supporters
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Yes
0
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8
Sex
Yes
18
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1
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greenseaturtle
No bare breasts or genitalia are seen. Just Winona Ryder's back.
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Is there bestiality?
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0
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17
Does someone lose their virginity?
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1
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10
Is someone sexually objectified?
40 supporters
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22
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2
Are there incestuous relationships?
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80 supporters
Yes
84
No
1
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series_of_unfortunate_events
A character is sexually abused by her father, though never on screen. Lisa tries to get under this character's skin by saying she likes her dad abusing her.
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Yes
86
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0
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series_of_unfortunate_events
Susanna and Toby lie naked in bed while talking (no visible nudity). They later are shown making out in bed while Toby's pants are partially pulled down.
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Is there BDSM?
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10
Sexism
Yes
0
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21
Sickness
Is someone terminally ill?
16 supporters
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Yes
7
No
3
Does someone have a stroke?
9 supporters
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Yes
0
No
17
Does someone have a chronic illness?
8 supporters
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Yes
0
No
12
Is there dementia/Alzheimer's?
23 supporters
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Yes
0
No
14
Social
Are there fat suits?
29 supporters
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Yes
0
No
13
Yes
5
No
19
0
CMster
Lisa is effectively homeless
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Is existentialism debated?
11 supporters
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Yes
0
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9
Are there anti-abortion themes?
31 supporters
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Yes
0
No
12
Spoiler
Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
4 supporters
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Yes
1
No
42
Are there end credit scenes?
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0
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7
Yes
6
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NovaPineros
It doesntwas, tho its not the typical happy ending, it's not bad tbh
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Vehicular
Does a car honk or tires screech?
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Does a car crash?
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Does a plane crash?
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Is someone hit by a car?
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Violence
Does someone drown?
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mstryke
At one point a character is dropped into a tub, but no drowning
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Is there blood/gore?
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Yes
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[SPOILERS] I am fairly squeamish, but the blood and gore in this movie didn’t disturb me. A characters recent self harm wounds are shown, but this is not very bloody at all. That same characters corpse is later shown having hung herslef and with fresher, bloodier self harm wounds. I would say the film’s plot and storylines are more disturbing than any of the blood or gore in it
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Is there a nuclear explosion?
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Is there gun violence?
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