Promising Young Woman

Movie • 2020 • Crime  

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A young woman haunted by a tragedy in her past takes revenge on the predatory men unlucky enough to cross her path.
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Does the dog die?
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Is someone stabbed?
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Is there menstruation?
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Does someone have a meltdown?
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Are there dislocations?
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Is there incarceration?
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Are there natural bodies of water?
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Abandonment
Is a child abandoned by a parent?
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Is an animal abandoned?
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Abuse
Are there abusive parents?
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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?
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TheGooney
The protagonist stalks a guy to take revenge on him.
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Is there domestic violence?
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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
SPOILER
SPOILER
SPOILER

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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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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Is someone abused with a belt?
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Is a child abused?
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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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Is there addiction?
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TheGooney
Though sometimes fake
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Animal
Were animals harmed in the making?
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Does a horse die?
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Does an animal die?
(besides a dog, cat or horse)
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Are animals abused?
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Is there a dead animal?
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Is an animal sad?
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Are rabbits harmed?
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Does a cat die?
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Does a pet die?
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Does a dragon die?
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Are there spiders?
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HannahMurray
Daddy long legs
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Are there alligators/crocodiles??
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Are there snakes?
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Are there sharks?
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Are there bugs?
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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?
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Is someone drugged?
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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 there pedophilia?
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Is someone held under water?
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Is rape mentioned?
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Bunbee
There are mentions of rape throughout the whole movie
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Is someone beaten up by a bully?
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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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Bunbee
(Spoilers)

Not someone's mouth specifically but someone's face is covered with a pillow
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godofallfemboys
I wouldn’t necessarily describe it as a joke but the movie really does depict men as ONLY being the assailants of sexual assault and doesn’t do very well acknowledging that rape doesn’t only happen to women. If you’re a man and have been SA’d this is not the movie for you. This movie is sickening and though the attempted point was admirable it’s really just a f***ed up trauma fest that paints a false narrative. (For example the scene where the guy says “getting accused of rape is a man’s biggest fear” and protag says “want to know what a woman’s biggest fear is?” Which is monumentally disrespectful to male sexual abuse victims like myself. Don’t waste your time.
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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
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RedPrinceE
Cutting is threatened and prepared for but does not take place.
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TammiiCore
SPOILER
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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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Is there throat mutilation?
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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 there decapitation?
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Is there cannibalism?
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Is someone crushed to death?
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Is someone choked?
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Bunbee
No one is ever choked but a character is suffocated with a pillow
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TheGooney
Someone's body is burned though.
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Is someone buried alive?
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Is there body horror?
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Is there amputation?
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Anonymous
No, but someone’s head is held under a pillow until she suffocates.
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Is there Achilles Tendon injury?
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Is there a hanging?
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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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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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Does someone become unconscious?
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Does someone break a bone?
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Does someone have a seizure?
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Are any teeth damaged?
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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Is someone tortured?
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TheGooney
Yes, but not in the slasher kind of way. More psychologically.
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Does someone fall down stairs?
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Does someone fall to their death?
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Is there eye mutilation?
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Is there excessive gore?
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Children
Is an infant abducted?
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Does a kid die?
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Is a minor sexualized?
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Creepy Crawly
Are there bedbugs?
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Death
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TammiiCore
SPOILER
SPOILER
SPOILER
SPOILER

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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Does a major character die?
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Does a non-human character die?
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Does someone die?
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Disability
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Is the r-slur used?
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Drugs/Alcohol
Does someone overdose?
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Family
Does a family member die?
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Does a parent die?
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Is a child's toy destroyed?
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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?
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SocialDopamine
Cheating is not on camera.
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Fear
Are there ghosts?
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Are there jump scares?
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Is there a shower scene?
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Are there clowns?
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Is someone possessed?
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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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Carz
Scalpels are shown in one scene.
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Carz
Anatomical skeleton in at least two scenes
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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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 wet/soil themselves?
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Is there farting?
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Is someone eaten?
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Is there on-screen pooping?
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Does someone spit?
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G335
The protagonist spits in a cup of coffee after being asked if she wanted to
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Is there audio gore?
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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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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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LGBTQ+
Are there transphobic slurs?
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Is there deadnaming or birthnaming?
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Is there bisexual cheating?
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Is an LGBT+ person outed?
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Loss
Is a priceless artifact destroyed?
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Medical
Is electro-therapy used?
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Are needles/syringes used?
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Is there a mental institution scene?
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TheGooney
The protagonist's love interest works at a hospital.
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TheGooney
Though for one line cancer is mentioned.
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Mental Health
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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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Is autism misrepresented?
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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Is there D.I.D. misrepresentation?
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Is there autism specific abuse?
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Reflective
only discussed, and it takes place before the movie.
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Is reality unstable or unhinged?
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Is there misophonia?
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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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Is there ABA therapy?
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Is there body dysphoria?
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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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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
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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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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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Noxious
Are there underwater scenes?
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Are there sudden loud noises?
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Is there shakey cam?
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Does a baby cry?
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Is there screaming?
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Is there obscene language/gestures?
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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
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Carz
When the character pretends to be drunk, they’re actually watching other patrons
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Is the fourth wall broken?
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Pregnancy
Is a baby stillborn?
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Does someone miscarry?
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Are there babies or unborn children?
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Is there childbirth?
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Are there abortions?
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Does a pregnant person die?
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Prejudice
Are there homophobic slurs?
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38
Yes
3
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Are there usages of the n-word?
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Yes
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Yes
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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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Does an LGBT person die?
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Are there fat jokes?
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Is there aphobia?
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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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Is a minority is misrepresented?
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Does the black guy die first?
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Is there hate speech?
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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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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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3
Are there demons or Hell?
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Sex
Are there nude scenes?
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Is there bestiality?
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7
Does someone lose their virginity?
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4
Yes
11
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Reflective
not really by the movie itself, but by the characters
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Are there incestuous relationships?
National Sexual Assault Hotline 800.656.4673
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64
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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 there BDSM?
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2
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TammiiCore
SPOILER
SPOILER
SPOILER
SPOILER

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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Sexism
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Sickness
Is someone terminally ill?
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Yes
0
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Nobody has a stroke
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Does someone have a chronic illness?
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5
Is there dementia/Alzheimer's?
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Social
Are there fat suits?
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i didn’t see any
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Is someone homeless?
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Is existentialism debated?
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3
Are there anti-abortion themes?
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Spoiler
Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
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Are there end credit scenes?
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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 honk or tires screech?
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Does a car crash?
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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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Does a plane crash?
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35
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0
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34
0
A car doesn't hit her but she hits a truck with a tool
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Violence
Does someone drown?
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35
Is there blood/gore?
52 supporters
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17
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SocialDopamine
There's a fake out where a red liquid is shown, but it's not blood.
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Is there a nuclear explosion?
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37
Is there gun violence?
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