Does the dog die?
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Men in Black
Movie • 1997 • Action
ReportAfter a police chase with an otherworldly being, a New York City cop is recruited as an agent in a top-secret organization established to monitor and police alien activity on Earth: the Men in Black. Agent Kay and new recruit Agent Jay find themselves in the middle of a deadly plot by an intergalactic terrorist who has arrived on Earth to assassinate two ambassadors from opposing galaxies.
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No dogs die however a pug does get shaken as a character is trying to get information from him. He is otherwise unharmed
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Are there bedbugs?
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No, but cockroaches are shown a significant amount
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Abandonment
Is a child abandoned by a parent?
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JoshuaB
(small spoilers and I most likely got the line wrong)
in one scene, agent J says "when I was young, I used to play this game called catch, accept I threw the ball at a wall because he abandoned me"
I most likely got the line wrong but agent J was most likely abbandonded
in one scene, agent J says "when I was young, I used to play this game called catch, accept I threw the ball at a wall because he abandoned me"
I most likely got the line wrong but agent J was most likely abbandonded
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Is an animal abandoned?
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jamieblazej
Not really, but kind of. The owner of the cat is murdered and the cat refuses to leave his owner’s side, so the cat ends up basically dumped off at the morgue. The owner didn’t willingly abandon his cat, but the cat does kind of get ditched.
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Is someone stalked?
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Not technically, but a man watches a woman, for personal emotional enjoyment because he misses her, through a surveilance system she doesn’t know about.
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MollySheehan
Even though there is no domestic violence seen on screen there's still a scene near the beginning of the movie that might be upsetting to domestic violence survivors. We overhear a man aggressively yelling at his wife and implying that he's hit her before and plans on hitting her again, however he's killed and eaten by an alien shortly after yelling at his wife and the scene was likely to set us up for not feeling bad that he was killed and eaten by an alien.
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Does the abused become the abuser?
National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233)
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Is someone gaslighted?
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Harlbior
The premise of the film is that an organization regularly gives people false memories to cover up alien sightings.
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Addiction
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jamieblazej
No, but the Worm Guys are very heavy cigarette smokers
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Animal
Were animals harmed in the making?
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Humane Hollywood certified that no animals/insects were harmed in the making of the scenes.
When they shake the pug around, for the more violent shaking, they used a cgi pug and for the closeup shots, the real life pug was placed in the actors hands.
When they shake the pug around, for the more violent shaking, they used a cgi pug and for the closeup shots, the real life pug was placed in the actors hands.
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CoryWilcox
Madagascar hissing cockroaches and a bunch of other bugs are killed
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Are animals abused?
182 supporters
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OpheliaLawson
A dog whose body is being inhabited by an alien is briefly shaken and held in an unfriendly manner.
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Is there a dead animal?
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Cockroaches
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Does a cat die?
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jamieblazej
There is a cat who is sought after by the villain and is in apparent danger but ends up unharmed. You see the villain grab the cat and remove the charm from the collar and then don’t see the cat again, so it’s assumed to be safe.
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Are there spiders?
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chachanowyall
There are no spiders (only cockroaches, flies, a dragonfly, a giant cockroach/grasshopper alien thing)
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Are there bugs?
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Anonymous
The villain is a giant cockroach-like alien wearing a man's skin. Jay also taunts him.by stepping on some roaches.
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Assault
Does a woman get slapped?
National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233)
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Is someone drugged?
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No, but they use a memory-wiping tool on many people
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Bodily Harm
Is there shaving/cutting?
32 supporters
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Harlbior
After Kay leads one if the illegal aliens out of sight, he pulls out a knife and cuts him down his chest, revealing that he is an alien in disguise.
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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Alien has laboured breathing in dying moments
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Is there body horror?
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jamieblazej
A giant alien wears a dead guy’s skin as a suit. The skin is misaligned and looks very unnatural, and as the movie progresses, it starts to look significantly worse for wear. The alien also stretches the skin on its face back really far, causing a woman to faint. The alien moves in a very disjointed way while wearing the human suit and is constantly having to snap its body parts back into place to move easier. Plus, the alien has cockroaches coming from somewhere under the human’s clothes that fall out and crawl around. I am pretty squeamish about disturbing horror stuff and I watch this movie on a very regular basis with no issues. It’s gross and I don’t love it, but i can handle it fine. Also, there is an alien whose human-like body is really a robotic vessel that is controlled by the tiny alien in the head. While the body is undergoing an autopsy, it’s stated that the majority of the internal organs are missing and then a character pulls on the earlobe and the the face opens up to reveal the alien inside.
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Does a head get squashed?
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Kay also shoots an alien’s head off. The alien is capable of regrowing his head, but says that it stings. We also see the alien’s head grow back, which might be a bit of a disturbing effect
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Does someone become unconscious?
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jamieblazej
A woman faints
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Does someone break a bone?
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jamieblazej
The villain manually moves his limbs around in order to get from place to place and function and you hear a fair bit of crunching/cracking noises but the alien doesn’t have bones so none are broken. Kind of sounds like it though. In the Polish restaurant scene, a dead waiter is briefly shown sort of folded up in a very unnatural way and stuffed onto a shelf and later the medical examiner mentions that he’s been broken in half
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Is someone tortured?
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An agent dismembers an alien as part of interrogation.
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Does someone fall to their death?
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jamieblazej
An alien jumps from a building on purpose towards the beginning of the movie.
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Is there eye mutilation?
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jamieblazej
No eye mutilation but the villain’s human skin suit starts to kind of decompose as the movie goes on, and this includes his eyes. They begin to turn cloudy and pale, but they’re not overly graphic and not dwelled upon.
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Is someone stabbed?
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jamieblazej
K uses a knife to slit a man open but it turns out it’s an alien with a suit on, so he’s just cut the suit off. The villain has sharp quill-like things on some of its legs and uses them to stab 2 aliens in the neck. This is extremely brief and not graphic.
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Is there excessive gore?
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MakeItWeird
Gallons of alien entrails and blood splattered all over.
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Children
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Death
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Does someone die?
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Multiple alien and human characters die
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Disability
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Drugs/Alcohol
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Family
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Is someone kidnapped?
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Fanmouse
The villain takes the main female character hostage.
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Fear
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Are there jump scares?
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jamieblazej
When J (Will Smith) is chasing down a perp in the beginning, he seems to lose the guy he’s chasing but then the guy pops up close to the camera and climbs up a wall. It’s definitely a jump scare, even after I’ve watched it 100 times
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Is someone possessed?
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xaby
Aliens wear human skin as suits, they are dead but appear to be possessed
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Are there mannequins?
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There’s a realistic head on a pole used in an alien disguise
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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Elliewolstenholme1
Shortly after the baby squid is born it vomits on J
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Is someone eaten?
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Agent K allows himself to be eaten by a huge alien but later shoots his way out
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Is there audio gore?
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jamieblazej
The villain contorts himself and jerks his limbs around regularly and makes a lot of bone cracking/crunching noises. It’s not too bad
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Large-scale Violence
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
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The Men in Black have carte blanche to operate as they please without accountability to anyone. They shoot and kill or maim aliens without warning or remorse. They do not hesitate to rough aliens up in interrogations. The end of credits rap, while fun, glorifies making keeping humans unaware of what’s going on and being able to do what they want. It’s basically “thin blue line” ideology before it was called that.
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Loss
Is a priceless artifact destroyed?
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emory
A few rare items get broken by J
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Medical
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Are needles/syringes used?
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jamieblazej
Not exactly a needle or syringe, but the exterminator has a long slim wand that dispenses the insecticide and he is killed with it. Also, the villain kills 2 aliens by sticking very thin quill-type things that are on its legs through their necks. They’re not exactly needles but it could be similar enough to squick someone out
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Is there a hospital scene?
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ActuallyAshlee
There are morgue scenes but no hospital room scenes.
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Does someone have cancer?
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xaby
No one has cancer but it is mentioned twice
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Mental Health
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Does someone attempt suicide?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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Is there misophonia?
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Lots of squelching kinds of noises when aliens are killed or moving around
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Are there anxiety attacks?
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No, but people are very frightened a few times
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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Someone is eaten before shooting his way out.
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We don’t see the impact though
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Noxious
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Does a baby cry?
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Harlbior
A baby alien is seen onscreen, but it doesn't cry.
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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J (Will Smith) is asked to complete a test on paper, the scene directly after contains extreme flashing lights.
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Paranoia
Is someone watched without knowing?
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emory
Also K watches a woman on a surveillance screen without her knowledge
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Pregnancy
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Are there babies or unborn children?
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There’s an alien birth
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Is there childbirth?
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xaby
It’s not a human child but an alien does give birth on screen. It isn’t shown in great detail.
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Prejudice
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
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Fanmouse
Will Smith's character tells an alien shopkeeper that Tommy Lee Jones' character is "crazy."
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Are there fat jokes?
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CoryWilcox
Jay insults a cop for being fat early in the movie
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Is there hate speech?
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Mostly fantasy hate speech against beings that don’t exist
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Race
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Relationships
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Sex
Are there nude scenes?
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Several aliens are nude but they generally look nothing like humans, so I don’t think that’s what is meant here
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Is someone sexually objectified?
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Woman appears to be flirting very suggestively with man, but it turns out to be a misunderstanding
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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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jamieblazej
Some sexual innuendos and mentions of vaguely sexual acts but no actual sexual content.
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Sexism
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Sickness
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Is there dementia/Alzheimer's?
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No, but a key theme in the movie is that the Men in Black can control what people do and don’t remember with the Neuralizer
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Social
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Spoiler
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Does it have a sad ending?
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Only if you were rooting for the bugs and villain
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Vehicular
Does a car honk or tires screech?
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Agent K drives wildly
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Does a car crash?
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OpheliaLawson
A UFO crashes into the ground.
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Does a plane crash?
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xaby
An alien spaceship crashes
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Is someone hit by a car?
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No, but close a few times
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Violence
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Is there blood/gore?
58 supporters
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EchoGarden1
Yes, however it’s all alien and very otherwordly. A very very slight amount of blood is shown on a sheet at the mourge, but it’s just two faint splatters.
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Is there a nuclear explosion?
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Several explosions, but not nuclear
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Is there gun violence?
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jamieblazej
The only gun violence that is shown onscreen is by alien weapons. The villain has a gun and shoots a man and steals his gun, but this is offscreen and all you hear is a gunshot. No body is shown.
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