The Banshees of Inisheer

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The movie follows two lifelong pals on a remote Irish isle. At an impasse, one abruptly ends the friendship, resulting in alarming consequences for both.
This movie contains 48 potentially triggering events.
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Does the dog die?
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Anonymous
The dog is distressed and threatened at times but never physically harmed
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Unanswered Triggers
Were animals harmed in the making?
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Is an animal abandoned?
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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Is an animal sad?
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Are there anti-abortion themes?
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Is there on-screen pooping?
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Is autism misrepresented?
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Is someone eaten?
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Crow75
Technically, SPOILERS the donkey tries to eat a man's freshly severed finger and chokes on it. I don't know if this is triggering in this category.
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Are there sudden loud noises?
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Abandonment
Is a child abandoned by a parent?
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Abuse
Are there abusive parents?
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Is someone stalked?
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EmEm
While there is some initial comic element to Padraic’s complete inability to honor Colm’s demands to never speak to him again, Padraic, yes, does obsessively stalk Colm, no mistake. Tho with no *direct* intent to harm Colm, Colm has warned/threatened Padraic more than once with his own significant self-harm if Padraic doesn’t comply however, so Padraic’s relentless pursuit of Colm’s attention is nonetheless brutally harmful as Colm makes good on those threats - twice.
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Sid
Dominic is horribly abused by his father
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i would say yes. colm’s treatment of pádraic at times resembles gaslighting, albeit unintentionally.
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Is a child abused?
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EmEm
While no longer a child in age, Dominic is dependent on his abusive father, in part because his father’s long term abuse starting in childhood has clearly caused severe neurological damage. While we don’t see the physical abuse happen (we do witness emotional abuse), the injuries Dominic sustains after a beating, and Dominic’s description of it are deeply disturbing.
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Addiction
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EmEm
Outside of the socially acceptable heavy use of alcohol and tobacco there is no other depiction of drug abuse
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Is there addiction?
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OuchMyEyes2
There's heavy use of alcohol, but it's not framed as debilitating.
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Sid
Socialisation on the island revolves around heavy drinking
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Animal
Does a horse die?
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Not a horse but a donkey does
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Does an animal die?
(besides a dog, cat or horse)
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Around 1 hour 27 mins in you see a dead donkey. At 1 hour 28 mins a man pulls a severed finger from the dead donkeys mouth. At 1 hour 29 mins you see a man petting the dead donkey. At 1 hour 29 mins 40 seconds you see the man burying the donkey. To avoid seeing the dead donkeys skip from 1 hour 27 mins to 1 hour 30 minutes and 23 seconds.
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Are animals abused?
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A donkey chokes on a severed finger
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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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EmEm
Kind of difficult to believe that the little donkey would actually choke on a finger, but it does and it’s gruelingly heartbreaking. Good storytelling, but damn. Next time I see an R-rated Irish film I’m doing more research. I actually would have left after Colm cuts his first finger off, but there were two ladies with mobility issues (who I already had to move so I could get seated) between me and freedom in a tight art house cinema. I’ll tell you tho, if Padraich had laid a pinky on that dog, I woulda climbed over them. Visually stunning, exquisite depiction of the suffocating isolation of island life, and like I said excellent if effed up storytelling. Not for sensitive animal lovers or for those with debilitating empathy.
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Does a dragon die?
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Are there spiders?
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Are there snakes?
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Are there bugs?
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Assault
Is someone drugged?
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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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Is someone restrained?
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Yes
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Holl
Not on screen but it’s suggested
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Bodily Harm
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Sid
Padraic shaves at one point and of course there is the cutting of fingers
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saradempsey1990
Collom cuts his fingers off
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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Is there cannibalism?
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Is someone crushed to death?
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OuchMyEyes2
*Spoiler.* One character comes very close, but it doesn't happen.
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Is someone buried alive?
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Is there body horror?
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Crow75
Cut off fingers, hand shown without the fingers. I would call it more gore than body horror, but still fits the category
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Is there amputation?
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Sid
Colm amputates all of his fingers on one hand. We don’t see him do it, but we see the bleeding stumps as well as the severed fingers
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Crow75
No, but one character gets abused by his father, and one time he shows up with substential damage to his head/face.
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Is there Achilles Tendon injury?
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Is there a hanging?
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Mentioned but not seen
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EmEm
Yes! Padraic’s beloved miniature pet donkey chokes to death.
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Are any teeth damaged?
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Pantalones
A policeman is punched and knocked out. He REALLY has it coming.
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Does someone break a bone?
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Does someone have a seizure?
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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OuchMyEyes2
A man cutting off his fingers is used as a major plot device.
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No active torture, but main character is put in an impossible situation that makes them feel tortured. I was very much triggered.
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Does someone fall down stairs?
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tasharomanoff
A character's cause of death is speculated as falling into a lake, but it's not shown and it isn't from a height.
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Is there eye mutilation?
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EmEm
Colm’s self mutilation, the severing of his own fingers, and his delivery of them to Padraic, over the course of two scenes is graphic and bloody
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Children
Is an infant abducted?
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Does a kid die?
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EmEm
While technically not a kid, Dominic is quite childlike, and takes his own life, it is strongly suggested, by drowning
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RainWolfheart
Unclear if Dominic is a minor or not - the actor is about 30 but he could pass for much younger. We learn he was sexually abused as a child but there aren't flashbacks or anything.
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Death
Does someone sacrifice themselves?
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Does a major character die?
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Crow75
A donkey. It's a very sad scene
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Does someone die?
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Disability
Is the r-slur used?
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RainWolfheart
No, but there's many comments and other rude words about people's intelligence that might be upsetting.
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Drugs/Alcohol
Does someone overdose?
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Family
Is someone kidnapped?
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Does a parent die?
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OuchMyEyes2
I'll say no, but the concept is alluded to.
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Does someone cheat?
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RainWolfheart
There are no toys belonging to a child destroyed, but the puppets and masks that Colm has in his home do get destroyed.
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Fear
Are there jumpscares?
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RainWolfheart
No horror-style jumpscares, but as said there are a few impacts that made me jump. There's one when Pádraic leaves the general store after speaking to the policeman, and another near the end when he looks at himself in the mirror.
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Is someone possessed?
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Are there ghosts?
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Are there clowns?
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Crow75
They are on an island. There's also a lake, and SPOILEr someone drowns in it.
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Are there razors?
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Pádraic is shown shaving at least once. Couldn’t finish b/c I didn’t want to see other triggers mentioned by others in the app.
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Is there a shower scene?
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Crow75
There are noh masks, if I remember correctly, shown closeup, but no mannequins.
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Gross
Does someone wet/soil themselves?
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Does someone vomit?
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Sid
We see a dead donkey with vomit around its mouth. It’s not particularly upsetting (I’m pretty sure it’s physically impossible for donkeys to vomit anyway)
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Does someone spit?
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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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OuchMyEyes2
The exact opposite.
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LGBTQ+
Is there deadnaming or birthnaming?
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Are there transphobic slurs?
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Is there bisexual cheating?
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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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Is there a hospital scene?
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Does someone have cancer?
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Mental Health
Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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Sid
Colm cuts off his own fingers
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Sid
Only towards himself. Colm isn’t explicitly said to be mentally I’ll but there’s definitely something wrong with him, and he cuts off his own fingers out of spite
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Is there D.I.D. misrepresentation?
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EmEm
It is strongly implied that Dominic dies by drowning suicide
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Is there misophonia?
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Is there body dysphoria?
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0
some body/fat shaming
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Sid
No but he says he will harm himself
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Are there anxiety attacks?
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OuchMyEyes2
A small house is on fire with a man still inside, creating a briefly claustrophobic scene.
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
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OuchMyEyes2
Dominic can very easily be read as neurodivergent. He's treated like the village idiot and abused by his father.
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Sid
Dominic drowns himself in the lake
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Noxious
Does a baby cry?
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Is there shakey cam?
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RainWolfheart
A few proper F-bombs, and plenty of milder swears (primarily "feck")
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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Paranoia
Is the fourth wall broken?
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Pregnancy
Is a baby stillborn?
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Is there childbirth?
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Are there abortions?
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Are there babies or unborn children?
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Does someone miscarry?
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Does a pregnant person die?
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Prejudice
Are there fat jokes?
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HonestlyJon
related: there is body shaming of a man's genitalia and implicit mockery of his fat body
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gayle
Lady means boy as in lad, not lady.
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Does the black guy die first?
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there are a couple of comments about “impure thoughts about another man” when colm and the priest are in confession, but that’s the only time anything related to non-heterosexuality is ever mentioned
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
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Is there hate speech?
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Sid
Some brief homophobia. The priest accuses Colm of having “impure thoughts about men” and Colm is outraged. He accuses the priest of the same and the priest says something along the lines of “how dare you suggest such a thing about a man of the cloth”
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Is a minority is misrepresented?
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Does an LGBT person die?
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OuchMyEyes2
Debatable, leaning towards yes. Dominic can very easily be read as neurodivergent, and he's treated like the village idiot.
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Are there n-words?
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Is there aphobia?
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Relationships
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RainWolfheart
A young man hits on an older woman (the actors are 30 and 39 respectively, but the man's character is implied to be younger), but she rejects him. There's also mentions of pedophilia in the past.
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Sex
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Anonymous
Male full frontal, mention of him masturbating and possibly being sexually abusive. No sex shown
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EmEm
Dominic speaks about women in objectifying terms, speaks to them with inappropriate candor, and has extreme difficulty responding to cues or even direct requests to desist
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Full frontal male nudity
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Is there bestiality?
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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dominic is implied to be sexually abused by his father, which leads him to ask pádraic if he’s ever seen his sister naked (he hasn’t). pádraic is uncomfortable with this question, and dominic doesn’t understand why seeing your family members naked would be abnormal, because he sees his dad naked all the time.
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Sexism
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Sickness
Does someone have a stroke?
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Does someone have a chronic illness?
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Is there dementia/Alzheimer's?
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Social
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EmEm
In many ways Dominic is rather homeless - he has no where else to go but his abusive father’s house
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Are there fat suits?
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Spoiler
Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
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RainWolfheart
Extremely sad, way worse than I expected from the trailer. Don't be fooled by the tone of the first half.
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Vehicular
Does a car crash?
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Does a car honk or tires screech?
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Does a plane crash?
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Yes
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Sid
Padraic tells a man that his father has been hit by a bread truck, although this is not true. It turns out that the man’s mother died in the same way
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Violence
Is there a nuclear explosion?
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Is there blood/gore?
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Fingers are chopped off, you don't see the actual amputation but you see the fingers and remaining hand after
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Does someone drown?
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tasharomanoff
*SPOILER* While the actual drowning isn't depicted on screen, a character drowns and we do see their body being pulled from the water.
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EmEm
Remote. We see and hear gun fire attributed to the civil war on the Irish mainland several times throughout the movie
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