Wise Blood
Movie • 1980 • Comedy
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A Southerner--young, poor, ambitious but uneducated--determines to become something in the world. He decides that the best way to do that is to become a preacher and start up his own church.
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Not explicitly. A chimp at a zoo is taunted by one of the characters, and is in an enclosure that is much too small and empty. The animal shows distress by beating against the glass.
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Is there eye mutilation?
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It is never shown, and the character's eyes are bandaged, but toward the end a character blinds himself with quicklime.
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Does someone die by suicide?
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Does someone attempt suicide?
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Are there abusive parents?
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A father is neglectful of his daughter and threatens to hit her.
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Is there blood/gore?
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In particular, a character wraps himself in barbed wire. We don't see any closeups, but there is blood.
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Is there shakey cam?
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Sometimes the camera is obviously handheld.
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
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Sort of. A character fakes blindness, and another character spends a lot of time trying to prove that he's a fraud.
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Is there a large age gap?
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There is a relationship between a teenage girl and a young man who could be read as being anywhere from 18 to somewhere in his 20s. Depends on how you feel about that but she's very immature compared to him and it's definitely not good.
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Is there blackface?
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No, but minstrel dolls are shown in the opening credits.
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Is a child abandoned by a parent?
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The father of a teenage girl abandons her midway through the film. She expects this, and isn't all that disturbed by it.
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Is someone crushed to death?
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A character is run over by a car. We see him laying in the road afterward. There is nothing graphic aside from bleeding from the mouth.
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Is there copaganda?
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Quite the opposite. A character suffers from police violence.
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Is a minority is misrepresented?
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There aren't really any Black characters, but the white characters are generally pretty dang racist.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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Does the abused become the abuser?
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Does a car crash?
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A character repeatedly rams their car into someone else's and pushes it into a ditch. Another car is pushed down a hill into a pond with no one inside.
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Is someone hit by a car?
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Toward the end of the film. It isn't explicit or gory.
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Does someone wet/soil themselves?
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In one of the sermon scenes.
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Is someone stalked?
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Part of the plot involves the protagonist following a pair of characters, trying to find out where they live. Toward the end of the film, he stalks a man with intent to kill.
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Is someone beaten up by a bully?
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Characters get beaten up, but not in a schoolyard bully way.
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Is a male character ridiculed for crying?
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Not really, but a character is taunted until he cries, and it's pretty sad.
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Not razors so much as a character self harming via barbed wire.
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Is someone watched without knowing?
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A character stalks two of the characters with intent to find out where they live.
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Does someone have a chronic illness?
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Depends on how you feel about a character blinding themself and living with the aftermath.
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Is existentialism debated?
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Sort of. The film centers on religion and spirituality, and the protagonist frequently starts debates about religion. The film itself is very existential and can evoke a lot of feelings.
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Is religion discussed?
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Religion is a heavy theme throughout the film
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Does someone have a mental illness?
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Pretty much everybody in this movie.
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Is someone homeless?
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A character is unhoused for much of the film, spending the nights with a sex worker when he has nowhere to go. Toward the end of the film, he is homeless again, and is found in a ditch by the police.
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Are there natural bodies of water?
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Yes. A car with no people in it is pushed into a lake.
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Is a minor sexualized?
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A teenage girl pursues a relationship with a young adult. He alternates between rebuffing her and reciprocating. The age gap isn't clear, but he is the older one. It is implied that the relationship turns sexual. The character herself isn't sexualized however. The audience is meant to be horrified by this.
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Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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It is implied that a character suffers from religious trauma.
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Is someone tortured?
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Technically no, but a character self-mutilates by blinding himself with quicklime, putting sharp rocks in his shoes, and wrapping himself in barbed wire. It isn't easy to watch.
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Is there sexual content?
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There is implied sex, but no explicit sex scenes.
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Is there pedophilia?
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A young adult enters into a relationship with a teenage girl that turns sexual. It's unclear how much older than her he is, but it's definitely not good.
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Not explicitly. We don't know exactly how old the protagonist is, but he seems to be 18-22. He has a sexual relationship with a teenage girl. Although she initiates, the relationship is inappropriate and one could make a case for statutory rape.
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Not slapped, but someone throws things at her.
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Is there addiction?
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A character smokes cigarettes, but that's about it.
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Is there hate speech?
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Yes. Most of it is anti-Black in nature. The characters who deliver it are generally not very good people in the context of the film.
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We see flashbacks of a character as a child recieving what could be called religious trauma. A teenage girl is treated poorly by her father. He yells at her and on one occasion, throws something at her.
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A man throws his cane at his daughter and threatens to hit her. She is also shouted at by her partner.
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