Paprika

Anime • 2006 •   

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When a machine that allows therapists to enter their patient's dreams is stolen, all hell breaks loose. Only a young female therapist can stop it: Paprika.
This anime contains 47 potentially triggering events.
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Does the dog die?
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Does a major character die?
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Does a non-human character die?
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Does a car honk or tires screech?
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Is there screaming?
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Is there obscene language/gestures?
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Is someone watched without knowing?
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Are there natural bodies of water?
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Abandonment
Is a child abandoned by a parent?
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Is an animal abandoned?
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Abuse
Are there abusive parents?
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Is someone stalked?
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EmmaDilemma
One character has unrequited love for another character, and later sexually assaults her. His behavior can be seen to exemplify “toxic masculinity” and he comes off as pretty creepy.
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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Is someone gaslighted?
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Is someone abused with a belt?
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Is a child abused?
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EmmaDilemma
There is a shot of some pedophilic magazines, but no mention of whether abuse has actually taken place.
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Addiction
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Is there addiction?
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ph03n_x
A cop is seen drinking alcohol at a bar and getting drunk immediately.
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Animal
Were animals harmed in the making?
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Does a horse die?
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Does an animal die?
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Are animals abused?
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Is there a dead animal?
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Is an animal sad?
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Are rabbits harmed?
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Does a cat die?
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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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ph03n_x
Large swarms of butterflies are a reoccurring image. They usually disappear quickly but the characters either vanish into butterflies or need to run into swarms of them.
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Assault
Does a woman get slapped?
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Is someone drugged?
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Is there pedophilia?
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Is someone held under water?
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Is rape mentioned?
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Avisect
Heavily alluded to for an entire scene but doesn't happen
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Is someone beaten up by a bully?
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ph03n_x
The main character is restrained on an examining table like a displayed butterfly, large needles are keeping her down on the table.
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CameronRichter
A man kidnaps a woman, restrains her and rips off her clothes. Literal sexual assault is not depicted but the scene is a visual metaphor for sexual assault. Disturbing and potentially triggering.
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alekslolol
Sort of? During a dream a mans hand sort of merges into a woman's body under her skin, we can see it bulge under her skin from her crotch to the mouth, potentially triggering
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SiRenfield
See sexual assault for details
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Bodily Harm
Is there shaving/cutting?
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Are any hands damaged?
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Are there dislocations?
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Is there throat mutilation?
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ph03n_x
In two scenes, one where a cop is being choked with a garrote/wire, the cop clearly struggles against it. In another scene, someone has a panic attack and their breathing is very heavy.
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Is there decapitation?
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Is there cannibalism?
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alekslolol
Not particularly cannibalism but a giant robot swallows a woman whole
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Is someone crushed to death?
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Is someone choked?
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Anonymous
Branches grow into a woman's throat and around her neck. She's unconscious for 99% of it though so it's not too graphic
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Is someone burned alive?
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Is someone buried alive?
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Is there body horror?
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alekslolol
There are a few odd scenes in the movie. One particularly when a man's hand is seen merging into a woman's body, bulging under her skin from the crotch all the way up to her face. The skin then splits in half almost like a cocoon and reveals another woman inside.
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Is there amputation?
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EmmaDilemma
A man has another man’s head suddenly sprout out of his body, and the first man’s head gets shoved to the side uncomfortably.
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Is there Achilles Tendon injury?
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Is there a hanging?
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trashbirdfilmwatcher
During a scene with implied sexual assult the character being assaulted seems to struggle to breathe.
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icosa
During a sexual assault scene, the abuser puts his hand through the woman's genital. No gore is shown however the skin does eventually rip leaving a somewhat shell of the woman.
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Does someone become unconscious?
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Does someone break a bone?
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Does someone have a seizure?
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Are any teeth damaged?
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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Is someone tortured?
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CameronRichter
A character pins a woman by her clothes to a table with giant sewing pins. The man rips the character's clothes off and assaults her.
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Does someone fall down stairs?
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teapotcutie
Falling scenes occur but don't cause death.
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SarahMarieBailey
BUT; someone is ripped open including their face.
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Is someone stabbed?
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Is there excessive gore?
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Children
Is an infant abducted?
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Does a kid die?
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SiRenfield
In-universe, at least it’s meant to be satirical in context though
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Creepy Crawly
Are there bedbugs?
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Death
Does someone sacrifice themselves?
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Does someone die?
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Disability
Is the r-slur used?
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Drugs/Alcohol
Does someone overdose?
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Family
Does a family member die?
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Does a parent die?
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icosa
Children's toys do get ruined/broken, but none are related to a specific child.
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CameronRichter
A character is kidnapped and physically, emotionally and sexually tortured.
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Does someone cheat?
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Fear
Are there ghosts?
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EmmaDilemma
Ghost-like figures, but they’re not ghosts, they’re technically figments of dreams.
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ph03n_x
There are very unexpected scenes where the world around characters warp in dream-like ways but there are no "horror" jumpscares.
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Is there a shower scene?
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Are there clowns?
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alison444
Clowns appear at various times throughout the film.
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Is someone possessed?
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SarahMarieBailey
But some people enter a trance like state
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Is trypophobic content shown?
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Are there razors?
S.A.F.E. ALTERNATIVES® (1-800-DONTCUT)
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alekslolol
As mentioned in other comments, not really mannequins but lots of scenes with dolls
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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Does someone wet/soil themselves?
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Is there farting?
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Is someone eaten?
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Anonymous
Technically yes? However it is not at all graphic. A character gets swalled whole briefly while in a dream. It's not cannibalistic.
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Is there on-screen pooping?
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Does someone spit?
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Is there audio gore?
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Large-scale Violence
Are there 9/11 depictions?
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
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One of the main characters is a cop, and is portrayed as being heroic and having joined because he wanted to feel powerful and like a main character in a film
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Is there incarceration?
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LGBTQ+
Are there transphobic slurs?
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Is there deadnaming or birthnaming?
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Is there bisexual cheating?
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Is an LGBT+ person outed?
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Loss
Is a priceless artifact destroyed?
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Medical
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ph03n_x
No electro-therapy but the whole movie's theme is around a new type of psychotherapy where an electric device on your head is able to record and control your dreams.
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Maktopus
No needles, however a device is removed from injured patients' foreheads as a medical procedure. We see the removed fragments of the device in a dish with blood on them.
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Maktopus
There is a psychiatric research facility where the main cast works however it isn't a hospital nor are there patients.
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SarahMarieBailey
there's an earlier hospital bed that is lighter,

someone later in the show gets brain surgery, the open head is NOT shown but they show pieces of something getting taken out.
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Is there menstruation?
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Does someone have cancer?
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Mental Health
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H0n3yotu
A lot of the movie is focused on therapy and mental health, particularly psychosis. One of the main characters has PTSD as well.
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SarahMarieBailey
two people fall from a high place, one jumps off a building
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Is autism misrepresented?
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Amarikah
Possessed individuals do attack others and/or show total disregard for others around them.
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Is there D.I.D. misrepresentation?
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Is there autism specific abuse?
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H0n3yotu
The entire point of the movie is dreams seeping into reality. Scene Transitions from dream to reality can be completely unnoticed, so be aware.
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Does someone have a meltdown?
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Is there misophonia?
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CameronRichter
No anxiety attacks, but anxiety is a central theme of the movie.
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Is there ABA therapy?
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Is there body dysphoria?
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ph03n_x
Potentially triggering language is used. A fat character is often called "slobbish" and harshly ridiculed for his weight by multiple characters.
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CameronRichter
A character is teleported into a cage by a magician and is squeezed by the bars and people attempting to reach him through the bars.
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absolutesquash
A character is heavily implied to have a binge eating disorder, and the other characters are not respectful about it.
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CameronRichter
Multiple characters are seen jumping out of windows and off of buildings, but one character is shown receiving little injuries and no characters are revealed to die from these situations.
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icosa
Yes, a main character does have trauma but does get over it at the end, and also forgives theirself.
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Noxious
Are there underwater scenes?
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Are there sudden loud noises?
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Is there shakey cam?
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Does a baby cry?
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Amarikah
A baby does make a brief coo, but does not cry.
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EmmaDilemma
One scene specifically has a character taking a picture with an old-fashioned camera.
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Paranoia
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absolutesquash
Somewhat minor, but there is a scene in a movie theater where the two on-screen character are discussing techniques to frame shots in film. The frame always reflects the one they're talking about, and there are arrows to further demonstrate it.
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Pregnancy
Is a baby stillborn?
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Does someone miscarry?
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absolutesquash
Yes, a baby comes out of a giant robot.
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Is there childbirth?
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Are there abortions?
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Does a pregnant person die?
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Prejudice
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ph03n_x
No slurs are said but in a scene where characters are searching an employee's apartment, a magazine for gay men is picked up and sneered at.
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Are there usages of the n-word?
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SiRenfield
No but sometimes people in the parade trance do a salute that’s reminiscent of the N*zis albeit this is probably not intentionally
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
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Yes
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CameronRichter
A character heavily implied to be bisexual is physically absorbed into another character.
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Are there fat jokes?
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CameronRichter
One character is subject to callous fat jokes multiple times throughout the movie, at the character's expense.
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Is there aphobia?
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SiRenfield
Two characters are somewhat vilified for being queer. In fact the film already had to tone down the homophobia from the novel
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ph03n_x
There are no black people in this movie.
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Is there hate speech?
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Race
Is there blackface?
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Relationships
Is there a large age gap?
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Religious
Is religion discussed?
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Are there demons or Hell?
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Sex
Yes
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1
There are a couple of scenes towards the end that depict a naked woman with her chest visible, though her genitals are not shown
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Is there bestiality?
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Does someone lose their virginity?
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Anonymous
as well as the assault and other sexual content mentioned on the other triggers, there is also a shot up Paprika's skirt at around 50mins.
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Are there incestuous relationships?
National Sexual Assault Hotline 800.656.4673
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CameronRichter
A character is assaulted during a torture scene with a visual metaphor of a character "ripping her identity" off. (non-sexual) female b*****s are briefly seen in two scenes.
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Is there BDSM?
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Sexism
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Sickness
Is someone terminally ill?
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Does someone have a stroke?
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Does someone have a chronic illness?
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Is there dementia/Alzheimer's?
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Social
Are there fat suits?
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5
Is someone homeless?
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Is existentialism debated?
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Are there anti-abortion themes?
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Spoiler
Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
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Are there end credit scenes?
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Does it have a sad ending?
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Vehicular
Does a car crash?
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Anonymous
no, but there are things that crash into cars.
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Does a plane crash?
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ph03n_x
A character skips through traffic and is almost hit by multiple cars but she stops time and is not hit.
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Violence
Does someone drown?
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Is there blood/gore?
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CameronRichter
Mild amounts of blood from a gunshot wound in a single scene.
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Is there a nuclear explosion?
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CameronRichter
A character is shot offscreen; we do not see the character being shot but the character is seen bleeding soon after.
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