Dark City
Movie • 1998 •
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A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun and run by beings with telekinetic powers who seek the souls of humans.
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Is there decapitation?
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The top of a person's head is sliced open.
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Abuse
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The whole population is being their lives rewritten over and over again
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Is there domestic violence?
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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Prostitutes are murdered as a big plot point of the movie, you see very brief flashes of most of them being killed, crawling away scared. One of them has her mouth covered and is pushed around by a group of The Strangers and then gets killed by one of them. You see two dead prostitutes bodies
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Animal
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Are there bugs?
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About 25 minutes in, two cockroaches are seen.
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Are there sharks?
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Parts of dead sharks are shown on a wall but no live sharks
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The fish is OK.
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Are animals abused?
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A fish bowl is accidentally smashed and the fish is suffocating but a character puts it into a bath of water to save it. Later another character gets it into a glass of water. We don't see it again. A scene is set in an aquarium full of very small tanks. A character throws a shoe at a cockroach, unclear if it is okay. Some rats are being used in an experiment but they are just in a maze and we don't see them harmed.
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Assault
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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Finger bitten 1:00:15-1:00:30
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Is someone stabbed?
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Multiple scenes of knife attack
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Does someone fall to their death?
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A character appears to fall to their death from a billboard however this does not kill them as they are an alien
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Does someone become unconscious?
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Every night everyone falls unconscious
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Is there a hanging?
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Is there shaving/cutting?
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Several women are murdered and their bodies cut with knives. A knife is the main weapon used throughout the film
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Is someone crushed to death?
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A building is moving towards another and characters have to get off the fire escape to avoid it. One character gets stuck and is crushed to death. We see the explosion of gore and their hand sticking out.
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Is someone burned alive?
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A fake memory involves a child's parents dying in a fire.
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Children
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Does a kid die?
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Alien possessed dead kid
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Death
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One good guy, all the bad guys.
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Does a non-human character die?
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Yes lots of evil aliens
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Family
Does a parent die?
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a prostitute is killed in front of her daughter
her death isn’t shown but afterwards the little girl is found hidden under the bed with a drawing of the murderers
her death isn’t shown but afterwards the little girl is found hidden under the bed with a drawing of the murderers
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Does a family member die?
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A child's mother is murdered in front of her. Two other characters mention dead parents however these are fake memories.
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Does someone cheat?
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Character’s wife is supposed to have cheated but it’s just mind control
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Is someone kidnapped?
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Female lead taken hostage
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Fear
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Is someone possessed?
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The aliens use dead humans as vessels to walk around in but there is no connection to who the person used to be so they could just as easily be robots or whatever.
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Is there a shower scene?
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Film starts with character in a bath.
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Are there natural bodies of water?
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The sea
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Large-scale Violence
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Law Enforcement
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Medical
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New memories are inserted via a needle to the forehead
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Mental Health
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Character jumps in front of a train.
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There are no incomplete suicide attempts, but see "Does someone die by suicide?"
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Is reality unstable or unhinged?
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Extremely so, the core premise of the movie is that reality is being manipulated/changed constantly and most of the inhabitants of the city don’t realise
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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Crushing hazard from 59:15-59:50
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Noxious
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Paranoia
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Pregnancy
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Prejudice
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Race
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Sex
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A character is a prostitute but there is no sex in the film
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Are there nude scenes?
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A prostitute takes her clothes off. In the opening scene a naked man gets out of a bath, only seen from behind. We see the naked body of a murdered woman.
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Are there incestuous relationships?
National Sexual Assault Hotline 800.656.4673
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Is existentialism debated?
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Repeatedly, it is the major theme of the film
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Violence
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Bloody murder scenes. Gore when two aliens are killed.
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Does someone drown?
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No. In one scene two people become unconscious and land face down in bowls of soup. However they are fine after this.
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Is there gun violence?
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Towards the end.
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