Promising Young Woman
Movie • 2020 • Crime
ReportA young woman haunted by a tragedy in her past takes revenge on the predatory men unlucky enough to cross her path.
This movie contains 40 potentially triggering events.
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Unanswered Triggers
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Is someone's mouth covered?
9 supporters
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Bunbee
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Not someone's mouth specifically but someone's face is covered with a pillow
Not someone's mouth specifically but someone's face is covered with a pillow
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Abandonment
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Abuse
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Does an abused person forgive their abuser?
25 supporters
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TammiiCore
Not necessarily THEIR abuser. But there is a scene, where the main character forgives a lawyer for defending rapists
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Is someone stalked?
17 supporters
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TheGooney
The protagonist stalks a guy to take revenge on him.
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Is there domestic violence?
National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233)
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
45 supporters
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A woman is brutally sexually assaulted in front of other men, watching. You hear some of the audio in a video, but you don't see anything.
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TammiiCore
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After loosing her friend, she is on a revenge spree to hunt down the man who did it to her. She intends to torture him with a scalpel
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After loosing her friend, she is on a revenge spree to hunt down the man who did it to her. She intends to torture him with a scalpel
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Is someone gaslighted?
27 supporters
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leh
The film is about cultural gaslighting and the way that society allows men to abuse women without any consequences to their own lives. Characters discuss how a woman had been sexually assaulted and none of her friends believed her at the time, reporting the assault had no result, and the woman's life was ruined, while the man was able to go on to a successful career, reputation, and relationship despite never having changed.
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Anonymous
there's a dialogue in which someone says that a teenager is alone with a group of guys that might rape her, but then she says that it wasn't true (so the teenager is safe and we never see any violence towards her)
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Addiction
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leh
A character snorts lines of cocaine. He offers it to a woman, who refuses it, so he rubs it on her gums. Lots of drinking and discussing drinking alcohol to the point of blacking out. Someone's alcohol is drugged.
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
7 supporters
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TheGooney
Though sometimes fake
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Animal
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Are there spiders?
26 supporters
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HannahMurray
Daddy long legs
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Are there bugs?
17 supporters
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leh
A brief view of flies and the sound of their buzzing.
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Assault
Does a woman get slapped?
National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233)
10 supporters
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Is someone drugged?
17 supporters
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Anonymous
The protagonist mentions to having served an altered vodka to a group of men, but onscreen you can only see them drinking. However, it is showed a guy trying to drug the protagonist by rubbing her teeth with cocaine without her consent
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Is rape mentioned?
43 supporters
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Bunbee
There are mentions of rape throughout the whole movie
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Is someone restrained?
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negativelybee
The antagonist is handcuffed to a bed near the end of the movie.
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leh
The first scene of the film shows a man targeting a woman who appears drunk in a bar. He kisses her and begins to undress her as she protests, although she stops it and nothing is shown further. In another scene, a man plies a woman with drugs and begins kissing her and touching her legs as she says she needs to go home, before she stops it and confronts him. Multiple characters discuss a sexual assault in the past where the person reporting it was doubted, spoken over, and intimidated into silence. A woman sets up another woman to have an experience where she wonders if she had been assaulted or not. Someone recorded a video of a sexual assault and it was sent around. People regularly refuse to take responsibility for their part in a sexual assault.
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Anonymous
The movie centers around a rape but it is never actually shown onscreen. At one point, we see the protagonist watch a video of the rape and become distressed, but we never see the video ourselves
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Bodily Harm
Is there shaving/cutting?
19 supporters
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RedPrinceE
Cutting is threatened and prepared for but does not take place.
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Are any hands damaged?
12 supporters
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TammiiCore
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When the main character is burned, her hand is seen falling out of the fire. Which is then kicked back into the fire pit
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When the main character is burned, her hand is seen falling out of the fire. Which is then kicked back into the fire pit
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
16 supporters
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Prolonged suffocation scene when the protagonist goes to confront the rapist at his bachelor party. He ends up suffocating her with a pillow. It is a long and gruesome scene to watch.
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Is someone choked?
14 supporters
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Bunbee
No one is ever choked but a character is suffocated with a pillow
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Is someone burned alive?
24 supporters
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TheGooney
Someone's body is burned though.
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Does a head get squashed?
35 supporters
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Anonymous
No, but someone’s head is held under a pillow until she suffocates.
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Does someone asphyxiate?
16 supporters
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negativelybee
Spoiler!! : There is a lengthy scene near the end in which the antagonist suffocates the protagonist to death.
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
47 supporters
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HannahMurray
From above “ A woman tells someone that another woman carries around scissors for the purpose of cutting off men's penises. Later, a woman opens a kit with scalpels, suggesting that she intends to castrate a man, but it doesn't go further than that.”
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Is someone tortured?
57 supporters
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TheGooney
Yes, but not in the slasher kind of way. More psychologically.
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Children
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Creepy Crawly
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Death
Does someone sacrifice themselves?
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TammiiCore
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Main character confronts the head of the rapist group of men, knowing she might not make it out alive. Which she doesnt.
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Main character confronts the head of the rapist group of men, knowing she might not make it out alive. Which she doesnt.
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Disability
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Drugs/Alcohol
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Family
Is someone kidnapped?
6 supporters
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SocialDopamine
In more than one situation, someone is lured to a location by a shady character with malicious intent. However this may not qualify as kidnapping.
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Does someone cheat?
12 supporters
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SocialDopamine
Cheating is not on camera.
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Fear
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Carz
Scalpels are shown in one scene.
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Are there mannequins?
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Carz
Anatomical skeleton in at least two scenes
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Gross
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Does someone vomit?
58 supporters
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G335
When a body is being burned one person comes very close but doesn’t
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Does someone spit?
8 supporters
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G335
The protagonist spits in a cup of coffee after being asked if she wanted to
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Large-scale Violence
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
14 supporters
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juliafox420
spoilers: the movie ends with police saving the day and arresting the villain. this is presented in a very strange ‘justice is served’ kind of way
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Loss
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Medical
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Is there a hospital scene?
7 supporters
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TheGooney
The protagonist's love interest works at a hospital.
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Does someone have cancer?
12 supporters
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TheGooney
Though for one line cancer is mentioned.
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Mental Health
Does someone suffer from PTSD?
28 supporters
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MovieWatcher10
The protagonist suffers from PTSD due to a traumatic event in her past. The event is basically what drives the plot of the movie.
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Does someone have a mental illness?
12 supporters
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PTSD.
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leh
A traumatized woman regularly places herself into dangerous situations to take revenge on men who prey on women. She does this at the expense of everything: her well-being, her relationships, her family, her health, and eventually her actual life.
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Reflective
only discussed, and it takes place before the movie.
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Is there body dysmorphia?
19 supporters
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Equivamp
The protagonist's best friend experienced dysmorphia after being raped, as described by the protagonist, leading to her suicide.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
17 supporters
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Are there anxiety attacks?
19 supporters
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Kaleigh
There are several scenes with people in extreme distress: once with the ex-lawyer, and a final one near the end of the movie with a man handcuffed to a bed and unable to escape.
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TheGooney
Though it is never shown, but it is talked about and it's what drives the protagonist.
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Noxious
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Are there flashing lights or images?
25 supporters
Yes
36
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quirklessbunny
The clubs scenes had flashing lights and one scene with flashing lights gave a bit of a headache
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Paranoia
Is someone watched without knowing?
9 supporters
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4
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0
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Carz
When the character pretends to be drunk, they’re actually watching other patrons
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7
Pregnancy
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Prejudice
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
20 supporters
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16
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Sweet_Gwendolyn
At the bachelor party there are two men wearing fake bare breast plates as a joke. It is more misogynistic than transmisogynistic, but still hits the same note.
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Is there hate speech?
20 supporters
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56
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2
12
leh
The movie has a lot of hate speech directed at women. A group of men discuss at a bar the fact that a woman can't come with them to a golf or strip club, but place the responsibility on her. Male construction workers shout insults at a woman who doesn't respond to their catcalling. Many people blame another woman for her own assault because she was drinking and say that she invited it.
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Is there aphobia?
12 supporters
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5
No
3
2
MovieWatcher10
Sorta? The parents of the protagonist seem to be relieved she finally has a romantic partner. Another woman tells the protagonist she'll have her own children. Subtle implications about the expectations for the protagonist. She may not be on the ace spectrum, but is still subjected to a heteronormative society.
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Race
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5
Relationships
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Sex
Is there sexual content?
35 supporters
Yes
63
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11
leh
The film features many scenes of the lead-up to sex, and there is a lot of discussion of sex, but no sex is depicted on screen. A woman discusses a man "putting his fingers inside" her. A mention of anal sex. Crude descriptions of women and their bodies. Implications or discussions of sexual assaults
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Is someone sexually objectified?
26 supporters
Yes
11
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0
2
Reflective
not really by the movie itself, but by the characters
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7
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Is there BDSM?
13 supporters
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2
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1
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TammiiCore
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In the main characters last act of deceiving men, she is seen putting the man in handcuffs on the bed which is meant to be followed by Knifeplay which is more of intended torture
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In the main characters last act of deceiving men, she is seen putting the man in handcuffs on the bed which is meant to be followed by Knifeplay which is more of intended torture
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4
Are there incestuous relationships?
National Sexual Assault Hotline 800.656.4673
51 supporters
Add comment
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44
Sexism
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2
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Sickness
Does someone have a stroke?
5 supporters
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No
7
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Nobody has a stroke
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5
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Social
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6
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Are there fat suits?
13 supporters
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0
No
7
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i didn’t see any
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Spoiler
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Does it have a sad ending?
24 supporters
Yes
71
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0
12
RamonaKjerstine
I don't believe anyone got justice, the guy was only arrested for killing her and nobody was punished for any instance of rape. The ending is sad and the movie acts like it's happy with happy music, that and the long rape-like murder scene is incredibly triggering.
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Vehicular
Does a car crash?
9 supporters
Yes
0
No
36
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HannahMurray
No but someone smashes a cars windscreen with a crowbar while the driver is still inside
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Yes
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No
1
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Is someone hit by a car?
11 supporters
Yes
0
No
34
0
A car doesn't hit her but she hits a truck with a tool
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Violence
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37
Is there blood/gore?
31 supporters
Yes
29
No
17
10
SocialDopamine
There's a fake out where a red liquid is shown, but it's not blood.
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No
35
Yes
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