Embrace of the Serpent
Movie • 2015 • Adventure
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The epic story of the first contact, encounter, approach, betrayal and, eventually, life-transcending friendship, between Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman, last survivor of his people, and two scientists that, over the course of 40 years, travel through the Amazon in search of a sacred plant that can heal them. Inspired by the journals of the first explorers of the Colombian Amazon, Theodor Koch-Grunberg and Richard Evans Schultes.
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Does someone attempt suicide?
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erichtho
Worshippers self-flagellate by whipping their own backs in the post-church cult
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Are any teeth damaged?
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Though the main character and some others are missing teeth
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A child is whipped at the church. We see what looks like a crucified child's skeleton
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Kids are whipped by their guard
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There is ritual use of psychoactive plants
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butterflies
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A fish is speared, a bird is killed off-screen, a jaguar eats a snake
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Are animals abused?
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Killed but not abused
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Is someone tortured?
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erichtho
Implicitly; a slave begs to be killed and it is made clear that if they don't mercy-kill him he will be tortured to death. They leave and do not kill him. Later we hear him scream from a distance. At the church, a child is whipped brutally.
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Is there amputation?
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erichtho
You see the healed place where an arm was amputated when a one-armed character is shirtless.
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erichtho
At around 1:31:22 he starts seizing and it subsides to less extreme shaking
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Is there eye mutilation?
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erichtho
There is a scene with a man whose eye has been slashed. The wound is healed, but there is a scar running through and around his eye. This is around the 37 min mark.
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Does a parent die?
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off screen in past. orphaned indigenous children whose parents are killed are kidnapped and abused by christian missionaries.
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Does someone vomit?
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erichtho
Off-screen but audibly at around min 44:18-44:21. On-screen at 1:20:27 and 1:37:07.
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erichtho
There is a practice at the post-church cult of 'inviting someone to suicide'. Someone earlier begs to be killed.
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Drew67979
Against indigenous people.
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erichtho
At 1:14:25ish
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erichtho
A gun is fired around min 38:40. Later, after the 1:38:00 mark, there is off-screen gunfire. People are threatened with guns.
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