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A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At first, he suspects that a man is involved. But gradually, he finds out more and more strange behaviors and bizarre incidents that indicate something more than a possessed love affair.
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Does the dog die?
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dleary25
Yes. The corpse of a dog is shown floating in a river toward the end of the movie. There is also dialog halfway through the movie discussing a dead dog, but this is separate from the dead dog shown toward the end. There are two cuts of the movie, and the dog corpse is in the uncut version for sure.
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Are there heart attacks?
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Are there tsunamis?
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Is there smoke or haze?
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Is there audience participation?
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Abandonment
Is an animal abandoned?
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IndigoBlue14
The parents disappear for long periods and leave their young son alone, who is shown eating jam from a jar because he's hungry and alone.
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Abuse
Is a child abused?
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sapphicpenguin
The son is neglected (left alone for long periods of time, always an afterthought, not provided enough food) and witnesses domestic violence.
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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ChelHendrySimmons
The main couple of Mark and Anna are extremely hostile and violent towards one another.
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Are there abusive parents?
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Is someone gaslighted?
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Is someone abused with a belt?
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Is someone stalked?
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snyggkexet123
(SPOILER?) The husband desperately wants to know where the wife's "lover" lives, so he gets a private detective on the case. The detective then follows and stalks the wife.
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Addiction
Is there addiction?
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ChelHendrySimmons
Mark goes on an alcohol-fueled bender after Anna says she wants a divorce.
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bricker
At the beginning of the movie Mark seems to have been using drugs, and Heinrich has a bag of a white powder, presumably cocaine.
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Animal
Are animals abused?
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Does a cat die?
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Does an animal die?
(besides a dog, cat or horse)
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Does a pet die?
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Were animals harmed in the making?
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Is there a dead animal?
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Does a horse die?
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Is an animal sad?
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Are rabbits harmed?
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Are there spiders?
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Does a dragon die?
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Are there bugs?
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Are there snakes?
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Are there sharks?
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Are there alligators/crocodiles??
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Assault
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sapphicpenguin
Lots of blurred lines in this movie. There are moments of struggle against kissing/touching, and it's also very clear that the character is unable to consent because of her frame of mind (insanity/supernatural forces).
There is a scene depicting sex with a supernatural being. I'm not sure if it's consensual. It is disturbing, though.
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Is there pedophilia?
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Is rape mentioned?
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Is someone restrained?
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Is someone drugged?
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SweetsAddict
mans head is submerged after death to look like he drowned
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There is a scene not too far along in the film where Mark and Anna have an argument. This escalates until Mark repeatedly slaps her.
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Is someone's mouth covered?
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Is someone beaten up by a bully?
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Bodily Harm
Is there excessive gore?
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Is there eye mutilation?
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Is someone tortured?
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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Is there body horror?
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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Are any teeth damaged?
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ChelHendrySimmons
Mark hits Heinrich over the head with a heavy porcelain toilet tank lid.
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Is someone burned alive?
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Is there decapitation?
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Anna cuts her own neck with an electric knife. The wound is not deep and she survives. She is shown with a bandaged neck for several scenes following this.
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Is there a hanging?
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bricker
A woman cuts her neck with an electric knife and then her husband cuts into his arm. The woman stabs a man with a broken glass bottle.
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Is there cannibalism?
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Is someone buried alive?
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Is someone crushed to death?
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Is there amputation?
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snyggkexet123
One character drowns in a toilet.
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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GioCP
A character is shown wearing a cast on her leg but that’s all
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Is someone choked?
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Are any hands damaged?
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Is someone stabbed?
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Anna stabs a man with a broken glass bottle.
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Does someone fall to their death?
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snyggkexet123
I won't tell you which one but one character gets messed up really bad on a motorcycle and their limbs are stiff and in odd directions.

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Does someone become unconscious?
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zigzig
No falling down the steps themselves, but a character throws themself off the side of a very tall spiral staircase and dies.
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Is there Achilles Tendon injury?
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bricker
There are scenes that look like people having a seizure, even if they're not.
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Children
Is a minor sexualized?
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Does a kid die?
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bricker
It is left unclear - whether the child dies is up to you.
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Is an infant abducted?
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Creepy Crawly
Are there bedbugs?
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Death
Does a non-human character die?
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Does a major character die?
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Does someone die?
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Does someone sacrifice themselves?
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Disability
Is the r-slur used?
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Drugs/Alcohol
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SweetsAddict
a woman overdoses on pills
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Family
Is a child's toy destroyed?
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Does a parent die?
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Does someone cheat?
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This is a consistent point throughout the movie.
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Does a family member die?
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Is someone kidnapped?
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Fear
Are there jump scares?
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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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Is someone possessed?
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huviks
Not really, despite the title
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Are there clowns?
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Are there ghosts?
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Towards the end of the film, there is a brief shot of Mark watching a dead dog float down a river.
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Are there mannequins?
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huviks
Lots of bathing scenes, though
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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bluuhaus
1:18:00 to 1:18:31 - at the end of the subway scene, after she rolls around in the milk, it cuts to her kneeling with white liquid coming out of her mouth. As well as blood and green liquid coming out of her other orifices. No projectile.

1:33:25 to 1:33:43 - after Heinrich says “if you’ve only seen what I saw,” he runs to the sink. no direct visual, only see him hunched over the sink.

1:34:30 to 1:34:53 - after Mark lifts the toilet lid off, he sticks a feather down his throat and gags. no direct visual only see him stick his head in the bowl.
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Is there audio gore?
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Is there on-screen pooping?
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Is someone eaten?
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snyggkexet123
(Spoiler)
When Anna miscarries in the train station, there's liquids like blood and green goo coming out all over the place.
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Is there farting?
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Does someone spit?
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SweetsAddict
woman spits out blood
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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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Is there incarceration?
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LGBTQ+
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Are there transphobic slurs?
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Is there deadnaming or birthnaming?
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Is an LGBT+ person outed?
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Is there bisexual cheating?
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Loss
Is a priceless artifact destroyed?
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Medical
Is there a mental institution scene?
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Are needles/syringes used?
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Is electro-therapy used?
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rebeccamlan
The main female character briefly mentions cancer in one sentence as a concept. No character has cancer.
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Is there a hospital scene?
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Is there menstruation?
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Mental Health
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ChelHendrySimmons
Heinrich's mother takes a lethal dose of pills after figuring out he is dead. Mark is grievously wounded and drags himself off a stairwell falling several stories to his death in one of the final scenes of the movie.
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TobyWoby
A woman slashes herself on the neck and man cuts himself on the wrists, both with an electric meat knife.
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Is there autism specific abuse?
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Is autism misrepresented?
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Is there misophonia?
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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Is there body dysmorphia?
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Is reality unstable or unhinged?
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TobyWoby
There is an intense; drawn out scene of a woman having an extreme mental breakdown that leads to her miscarrying her child, with bloody results.
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Is there D.I.D. misrepresentation?
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The whole movie is arguably full of this.
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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Is there ABA therapy?
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Is there body dysphoria?
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Anna has several meltdowns throughout the movie
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Does someone have a mental illness?
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Noxious
Is there shakey cam?
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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Are there sudden loud noises?
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Does a baby cry?
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Is there screaming?
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There is so much screaming. A good majority of the film involves Mark and Anna yelling at each other, and Anna's infamous "subway scene" features her screaming almost the entire way through.
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Are there underwater scenes?
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Is there obscene language/gestures?
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Paranoia
Is someone watched without knowing?
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Mark is watching old tapes of Anna and she keeps looking at the camera in the tapes.
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Pregnancy
Is a baby stillborn?
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kaleidobear
during the subway scene 1 hour and 16 minutes in
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Is there childbirth?
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kaleidobear
during the subway scene 1 hour and 16 minutes in
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Does a pregnant person die?
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Are there abortions?
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Are there babies or unborn children?
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Prejudice
Are there fat jokes?
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Are there homophobic slurs?
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
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huviks
After a minor character dies, we find out he was gay
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Is there hate speech?
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Are there usages of the n-word?
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Is a minority is misrepresented?
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Does the black guy die first?
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Is there aphobia?
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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
Is there bestiality?
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SweetsAddict
woman has sex with octopus like creature
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Are there incestuous relationships?
National Sexual Assault Hotline 800.656.4673
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Is there sexual content?
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sapphicpenguin
Women are for brief moments seen topless in sexual and non-sexual situations.
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Is someone sexually objectified?
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Is there BDSM?
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Does someone lose their virginity?
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Sexism
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Sickness
Is there dementia/Alzheimer's?
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Is someone terminally ill?
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Does someone have a chronic illness?
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No one explicitly has a stroke, but a few moments in the film are stroke-adjacent. I would advise caution.
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Social
Are there anti-abortion themes?
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Are there fat suits?
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characters debate the existence and the meaning of god.
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Is someone homeless?
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Spoiler
Does it have a sad ending?
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0
Are there end credit scenes?
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5
Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
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Vehicular
Does a car crash?
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Is someone hit by a car?
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15
Does a plane crash?
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15
Does a car honk or tires screech?
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Violence
Is there blood/gore?
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0
Is there gun violence?
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0
Does someone drown?
35 supporters
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huviks
The drowning is implicit
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ChelHendrySimmons
Heavily implied that nuclear bombs are being dropped on Berlin in the final scene.
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