The Living End
Movie • 1992 • Drama
ReportLuke is a gay hustler. Jon is a movie critic. Both are HIV positive. They go on a hedonistic, dangerous journey. Their motto: "Fuck the world".
This movie contains 32 potentially triggering events.
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Your Triggers
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Unanswered Triggers
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Abandonment
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Abuse
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Does an abused person forgive their abuser?
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Luke and Jon stay together despite Luke being pretty abusive. It's complicated I guess.
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Is someone stalked?
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cosy
Sorta? One of the main characters returns back to the protagonist’s home at night without their knowledge.
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raakamieli
A couple argues and gets physical against the car of the protagonists.
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Does the abused become the abuser?
National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233)
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Addiction
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raakamieli
Ecstasy is mentioned once.
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Is there addiction?
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Darcy is addicted to nicotine. Luke seems to be addicted to alcohol or at least he drinks a lot. Luke also has a cigarette in his mouth for almost the entire movie but he apparently doesn't actually smoke.
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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esmeraldabloodfreeze
A character drinks alcohol covertly (hiding it in a soft drink bottle) throughout the movie, including while driving and almost causing a collision.
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Animal
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A pet goldfish
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Is there a dead animal?
118 supporters
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raakamieli
A goldfish is implied to jump out of it's bowl and die, and is seen on the floor for the duration of a shot.
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Are there snakes?
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A woman is attacked by a snake offscreen
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Assault
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a short scene of a couple arguing and the man hitting the woman
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Is someone restrained?
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lonely_tardigrade
Towards the end of the movie, one of the main characters has their wrists tied
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juice
Near the end of the movie, there's a scene that could be interpreted as sexual assault. Either way, it's pretty disturbing
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lonely_tardigrade
At the end of the movie, one of the main characters is tied up and raped by the other main character. Only their faces are seen.
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Bodily Harm
Is there shaving/cutting?
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raakamieli
The other protagonist cuts his wrist.
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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raakamieli
The protagonist is choked in the later shower scene with sexual intent.
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Is someone choked?
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lonely_tardigrade
One of the characters asks another character to choke him during sex and he does.
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Is there a hanging?
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raakamieli
No, but a hanging method is discussed.
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Does someone asphyxiate?
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one of the characters is choked during sex consentually, you can hear him gasping and struggling to breathe. its during a shower sex scene
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Does someone become unconscious?
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a character is hit in the head and passes out
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Does someone fall to their death?
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raakamieli
Not on-screen, but someone jumping off of a skyscraper is discussed.
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Is someone stabbed?
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there is a self- harm scene but no stabbing
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Children
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Creepy Crawly
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Death
Does a major character die?
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cosy
No, but both main characters are positive for HIV.
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Does someone die?
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The main character kills three people who were going to kill him
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Disability
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Drugs/Alcohol
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Family
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Does someone cheat?
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esmeraldabloodfreeze
A married character cheats with a hustler. His wife finds them in bed together.
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Fear
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Are there natural bodies of water?
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The ocean
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Are there clowns?
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There's a Circus Liquor neon sign with a clown briefly
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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mjane
super tame, just a man’s back with no visual or audio, happens like 2 mins in and only lasts a few seconds
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Does someone wet/soil themselves?
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lonely_tardigrade
There’s a pretty long clip where one of the main characters pees outside onscreen (like 60 seconds or so long)
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Does someone spit?
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raakamieli
Luke spits on his hand near the end. Brief, little shown.
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Large-scale Violence
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
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The main characters kill cops 👍
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LGBTQ+
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Is there bisexual cheating?
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Near the beginning Luke sleeps with a married bisexual man.
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Loss
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Medical
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Is there a hospital scene?
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raakamieli
Only a very brief one, of an office rather than an "actual" hospital.
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Mental Health
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raakamieli
The other protagonist cuts his wrist.
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esmeraldabloodfreeze
A character displays suicidal behavior and makes remarks to this effect often in the movie, and attempts suicide in the last scene.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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Luke repeatedly puts a gun in his mouth in front of Jon and says that he's going to kill himself the moment the symptoms of AIDS start appearing on him.
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Is there body dysmorphia?
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raakamieli
A protagonists briefly mentions he doesn't want to grow old and fat.
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raakamieli
No, but suicide is mentioned several times. The suicide of Ian Curtis is described. One of the protagonists attempts to shoot himself twice, but fails both times.
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Noxious
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Paranoia
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Is the fourth wall broken?
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One character keeps an audio diary and narrates sometimes but it stops after his recorder runs out of batteries
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Pregnancy
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Prejudice
Are there homophobic slurs?
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raakamieli
Both reclaimed and used against the protagonist.
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Does an LGBT person die?
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raakamieli
Not on-screen, but the protagonists are HIV-positive gay men who frequently talk about an approaching death. One of them attempts suicide.
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Is there hate speech?
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raakamieli
Homophobic slurs. Luke calls a man an anti-Asian slur.
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Race
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Relationships
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Sex
Are there nude scenes?
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A bare butt is shown and one of the main characters is often shirtless but no full nudity
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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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raakamieli
The protagonists have sex multiple times and sexual dialogue and jokes are frequent.
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Is there BDSM?
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A little bit. Near the beginning Luke spanks a guy he's fucking with a tennis racket. Later Jon chokes Luke during sex.
Also Luke has a black handkerchief in his left back pocket indicating he's into BDSM.
Also Luke has a black handkerchief in his left back pocket indicating he's into BDSM.
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Sickness
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Social
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Is existentialism debated?
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Afterlife or the lack of it is.
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Spoiler
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Vehicular
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Violence
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Is there blood/gore?
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raakamieli
Frequent blood.
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