The Handmaid's Tale
Movie • 1990
ReportIn a dystopicly polluted rightwing religious tyranny, a young woman is put in sexual slavery on account of her now rare fertility.
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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ChrisSunHwa
In the form of public executions.
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Assault
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A woman slaps another woman in order to get her to calm down
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Is someone tortured?
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Handmaids are tortured for disobedience or for attempting to escape.
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Children
Is an infant abducted?
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Sunnyflower
Kind of? Women are forced to have children for other families and don’t get to see their babies after they are born.
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Disability
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Noxious
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Lots of screaming, especially at the beginning.
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Pregnancy
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Are there abortions?
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Mentions of it, but not shown
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Prejudice
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A man says “Blacks and homos”
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Religious
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Most of the movie has very religious references.
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Sex
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Is there sexual content?
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Multiple pretty graphic sex scenes
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Spoiler
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The ending is very ambiguous. It seems happy enough, though.
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