2001: a Space Odyssey
Movie • 1968 • Sci-Fi
ReportHumanity finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its origins with the help of HAL 9000, the world's most advanced super computer.
This movie contains 23 potentially triggering events.
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Your Triggers
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Abandonment
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Is a child abandoned by a parent?
35 supporters
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namupokemanchan
A child's father goes on a business trip and disappears but he does not abandon her
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Abuse
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Is someone stalked?
22 supporters
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BrownMcBrick
Humanity is stalked by a Godlike alien race.
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Is there domestic violence?
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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?
34 supporters
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BrownMcBrick
Yes. I don't know why people are answering no. That's like the main plot. HAL gaslights the crew the entire movie to make sure his mission succeeds.
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Addiction
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Animal
Were animals harmed in the making?
155 supporters
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BrownMcBrick
There is no evidence to show that animals were harmed to make the movie, but dead animals are shown.
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Does a horse die?
107 supporters
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Bebrave
The zebra is actually a real dead horse that was painted to look like a zebra.
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CLmajot
An ape is killed by another ape, though the death isn't extremely graphic and no blood is shed.
Meat is eaten by apes.
A tapir collapses, a dead horse is shown.
Meat is eaten by apes.
A tapir collapses, a dead horse is shown.
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Are animals abused?
212 supporters
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greenteadragon
Monkeys are beaten by other monkeys.
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Is there a dead animal?
118 supporters
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There is a dead horse shown, painted fo look like a zebra
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Are there bugs?
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Lifeofarat
Computer bug…
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Assault
Does a woman get slapped?
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Is someone drugged?
33 supporters
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No, but multiple people are shown in hypersleep
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Is someone restrained?
30 supporters
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SpoonDee
People are in cryo-sleep.
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Bodily Harm
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
29 supporters
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GrymR
One character has his airline cut and he suffocates in space. Another character has to enter the spacecraft without a helmet.
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Is someone choked?
18 supporters
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BrownMcBrick
People suffocate to death, I'm not sure if that's close enough or what.
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Does someone asphyxiate?
25 supporters
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The second time a pod is taken out, Frank is cut loose from his air and suffocates to death. He is shown struggling momentarily but there is no graphic audio
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Does someone become unconscious?
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No, but a corpse is featured heavily for a portion of the movie. It can be slightly disturbing as it is floating in space and fully limp.
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Does someone break a bone?
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BrownMcBrick
Monkeys beat each other to death with clubs, so presumably.
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Does someone have a seizure?
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SPOILERS
During the ending after all of the pretty colors and whatnot, Dave is shown shaking and seemingly having a seizure of sorts temporarily. Only his face is shown
During the ending after all of the pretty colors and whatnot, Dave is shown shaking and seemingly having a seizure of sorts temporarily. Only his face is shown
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Is someone tortured?
93 supporters
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BrownMcBrick
Mentally, but not physically.
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Does someone fall to their death?
11 supporters
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CupcakeTheSpoilerer
Frank, one of the main characters, is ejected out of the Jupiter mission by HAL, and dies as a result, not technically a fall though
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Children
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Creepy Crawly
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Death
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Does a major character die?
24 supporters
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BrownMcBrick
Yes. It's very well done.
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Does a non-human character die?
30 supporters
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ghostieZone72
[SPOILERS]
HAL 9000, the sentient computer, has his memory cards and power source cut off. during the entire scene he is talking about how he can feel it, and his voice progressively gets deeper and slower as if running out of battery and eventually stopping.
HAL 9000, the sentient computer, has his memory cards and power source cut off. during the entire scene he is talking about how he can feel it, and his voice progressively gets deeper and slower as if running out of battery and eventually stopping.
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Disability
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Drugs/Alcohol
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Family
Does a family member die?
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BrownMcBrick
Yes. Frank is shown to have living family and later gets killed by HAL9000.
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Does a parent die?
22 supporters
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oliviatrapezoid
There is death in the film, however, it isn't ever made clear whether or not the people dying are parents.
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Fear
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Are there jump scares?
68 supporters
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There are no traditional or intentional jumpscares, but there are a few moments where the music comes in suddenly, or a loud piercing noise comes in suddenly. Neither of these are done to scare the viewer.
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
113 supporters
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Anonymous
never happens, not even the suggestion of it - i think the 3 yes comes from people thinking this is a motion sickness trigger!
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Large-scale Violence
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Law Enforcement
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LGBTQ+
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Loss
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Medical
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Is there a hospital scene?
13 supporters
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pedanther
No hospitals, but there is a scene featuring hospital equipment (the type that beeps and shows a screen full of wiggly lines to show that the patient is alive).
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Mental Health
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
34 supporters
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SuperItGirl
It is implied that HAL9000 is experiencing the computer equivalent of psychosis/schizophrenia (it is specifically referred to as psychosis in the book, which is almost completely identical to the film), and as a result murders four people and attempts to kill another.
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Does someone attempt suicide?
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Is reality unstable or unhinged?
25 supporters
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pedanther
Especially so in the final section of the film (following the title card saying "Jupiter and beyond")
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Is there misophonia?
31 supporters
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idridian
Extended sequences with loud hissing noises, heavy breathing and repetitive beeping
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Are there anxiety attacks?
23 supporters
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SuperItGirl
HAL9000’s final speech while being deactivated is framed much like a panic attack, although he is unable to hyperventilate or speak in a non-monotone voice, which honestly adds to the terror
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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Is there body dysmorphia?
28 supporters
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oliviatrapezoid
This one is a little hard to answer because characters do change physical appearance, but off-screen, and the film doesn't even hint that they change physical appearances either. Rather, one moment they look one way, the next moment they look different, instantaneous and off-screen like nothing happened.
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
18 supporters
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Strangealien
The EVA pod is very small and the space helmet looks very claustrophobic
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Does someone die by suicide?
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Noxious
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Is there shakey cam?
48 supporters
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oliviatrapezoid
While the shaky camera lasts only for about 10 seconds and more towards the end of the film, it shakes with increasing drastic intensity. The camera during the rest of the film is rather smooth or static.
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Is there screaming?
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Applebees
A tribe of apes do a lot of primal screaming
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Are there flashing lights or images?
48 supporters
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The machinery ocasionally has flashing graphics on screens, and the ending of the movie *SPOILERS* after Dave finds the monolith features many heavily saturated, quick moving colorful shapes and imagery for an extended period of time (at least five minutes)
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Paranoia
Is someone watched without knowing?
14 supporters
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BrownMcBrick
By Aliens!
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Is the fourth wall broken?
10 supporters
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JiveNJingle
In a sense. When Dave is in the pod at the time he's attempting to retrieve Frank's body, he's looking out the front oval window. But the camera angle is such that he's looking directly at the camera lens, while it's intended to appear that he's looking out of the window. It's not as though he's acknowledging the 'audience' but it appears as though he's still looking directly at the camera lens.
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Pregnancy
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Are there babies or unborn children?
17 supporters
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soladios
There is a digitally generated depiction of a gigantic fetus-like being right at the end of the movie
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Prejudice
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Race
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Relationships
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Religious
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Yes
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Sex
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Yes
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Yes
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Yes
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Sexism
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Sickness
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Does someone have a stroke?
11 supporters
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See "does somebody have a seizure?" for info regarding a similarly questionable moment in the film
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Social
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Spoiler
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Does it have a sad ending?
63 supporters
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greenteadragon
It's ambiguous.
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Vehicular
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Yes
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Yes
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Is someone hit by a car?
20 supporters
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SpoonDee
A space pod collides with a person, flinging them into space.
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Violence
Does someone drown?
24 supporters
Yes
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oliviatrapezoid
Nobody drowns in water, however, someone does suffocate in space.
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