The protagonist’s trauma from the accident has prevented her from having sex with her girlfriend and it is something she discusses non-graphically with her psychiatrist and there is a very short and predominantly offscreen sex scene between the two of them that doesn’t have any nudity or anything more graphic than some kissing. It’s like family sitcom level tameness.
The protagonist is gaslighted by ghosts of her sister and husband into believing her partner doesn’t love her. Some of the things her therapist and partner do say come across that way as well but it does not seem intentional.
Major spoilers for the film: The final scene reveals the entire story has taken place in the emergency room while the protagonist is dying of blood loss following a shark attack. It shows the doctors trying and failing to revive her.
Major spoilers for the film: The protagonist is emotionally tormented by the ghosts of her abusive sister and husband who try to drive the protagonist into having a mental breakdown and kill her girlfriend.
The protagonist has ptsd after her sister and partner die in a shark attack. She has flashbacks and semi-realistically depicted trauma symptoms through most of the film.
The protagonist’s girlfriend is the only major person of color in the film, but she survives the entire story despite being endangered, and doesn’t experience any racist or homophobic violence as part of the narrative.
It honestly feels like there was a subplot about homophobia that they forgot to include in the final cut, because there are quite a few scenes of the protagonist being threatened with violence for being in a relationship with a woman. (Major spoilers for the film: The protagonist is bisexual and has moved onto a relationship with a woman following the death of her husband. She is haunted by ghosts of her sister and husband who try to force her to break up with or kill her girlfriend.) This does not actually happen and she never harms her girlfriend.
The protagonist is seeing a therapist for her ptsd, but refuses to take any kind of medication, and her therapists continually belittles her and coerces her into scenarios she is uncomfortable with to give her “exposure” type therapy. A lot of the ableism in the. film comes from the protagonist struggling with internalized ableism but the other part is that it’s just written by people who don’t know how mental illness works.
Sort of. There are a lot of scenes of the shark appearing in what seem intended as jump scares? but they are very badly paced so it’s unclear. There are a few sudden loud noise type jumpscares too.