The Old Guard
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Does a woman get slapped?
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Is a child abandoned by a parent?
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no, but there is a flashback where a character's child (as an adult) is upset and yells at their parent (wordlessly) because their parent is immortal and cannot share the 'secret' to save their child.
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Abuse
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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Witch trials.
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Is there domestic violence?
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Does an abused person forgive their abuser?
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Andy patches things up with two different people who have betrayed her recently. She does hold both accountable for their actions.
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Is someone gaslighted?
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There is no gaslighting, but near the end of the movie some people find out they were lied to for the whole movie by someone they care about.
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Does the abused become the abuser?
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Is someone stalked?
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The main characters are tracked down, the main characters try to track someone down, and at Merrick there is a bunch of photos and files gathered of some people.
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Addiction
Is there addiction?
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Possibly alcoholism, perhaps especially clear very near the end (after Booker has become alone).
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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Characters drink throughout, and one character (Booker) is constantly drinking, especially when he's stressed. He appears to be drunk in a post-credit scene but otherwise no one ever appears erratic or drunk.
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no, but there are several instances of alcohol consumption
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Animal
Are animals abused?
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While no animals are abused on screen, Merrick talks about having experimented on and killed a quarter of a million mice.
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While no animals die on screen, Merrick talks about having experimented on and killed a quarter of a million mice.
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Does a horse die?
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In flashbacks to Andy's past, there are mounted combat scenes, but no horses are harmed.
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Assault
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Is someone restrained?
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in the second half of the movie, characters are shown handcuffed and then strapped down to tables/chairs. they are also physically restrained by guards
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Is someone held under water?
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Yes, one of the characters is doomed to constantly drown and revive for centuries.
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Bodily Harm
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Is someone tortured?
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Characters are held captive to find the secret to their immortality. We don't see much of the experimentation but the bad guy threatens to spend decades cutting pieces off them if necessary. We are also told about (or shown in flashback) some deaths by torture, including burning alive and imprisonment in an underwater coffin.
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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Broken fingers and shot in the foot
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Does a head get squashed?
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No. People are shot in the head/face, though.
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Are any teeth damaged?
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A character spits some blood after a strike to the face, however there is no damage shown to the teeth or mouth and no teeth are spat.
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Is someone burned alive?
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Nothing is shown but one of the characters tells a story of how they were burned alive for being a witch
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Is there a hanging?
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Around 49:00 minutes in, two women are shown hanging (as part of a witch trial) and struggling for breath, but as they are immortal, they don't die. The scene lasts less than a minute.
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Is someone crushed to death?
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No, but two characters fall from a height and end up inside a crushed car.
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Is there shaving/cutting?
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Knives are used in close-contact fights; various wounds are dealt with them, including some to the throat.
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Is someone buried alive?
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Someone is locked in an iron maiden (metal casket) and thrown to the bottom of the ocean.
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Is there amputation?
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Very brief shot of a man's arm getting cut off during the fight scene at the church. 56:50-56:53.
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Does someone asphyxiate?
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A character is shown drowning in the ocean. Other characters are shown struggling to breathe after being hung.
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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A character is shown drowning on-screen as backstory.
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Does someone break a bone?
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An arm is broken in a fight scene and the bone is shown through the skin. At the end, an immortal character jumps from a tall building onto a car and her hand is shown to be broken in many places. We do see it heal. Also, this doesn’t fit anywhere else, but an immortal man catches a grenade and his intestines are shown exposed before they heal.
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Is someone choked?
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two characters are hung on nooses but do not die, and as such there is a lot of choking noises.
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Is someone stabbed?
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swords are used in the opening fight scene, and an axe/labrys is used to also kill people in multiple scenes.
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Does someone fall to their death?
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Two characters fall from a window, they are shown falling then the impact of them landing on a car is shown. One is immortal and the other is not, but no gore/body is shown afterwards from the character who dies.
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Children
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Does a kid die?
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An immortal man discusses the pain of losing his son (an adult), since his family aged around him while he didn't.
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Creepy Crawly
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Death
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Does a major character die?
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not permanently, as the premise of the film is a group of immortals who cannot die.
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Does someone sacrifice themselves?
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Sort of. They're immortal, so no permanent damage is done. We do see characters using their bodies to shield others, though.
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Disability
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Drugs/Alcohol
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Family
Does a parent die?
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Main characters are immortal and talk about loved ones lost along the way
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Does a family member die?
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multiple characters discuss the family that they have outlived.
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Does someone cheat?
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There are multiple cases of the opposite, where two characters show immense love towards each other and a complete lack of desire to ever leave each other or betray each other
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Is someone kidnapped?
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At the beginning of the movie, the main characters go to save children being held hostage, but it turns out that there were never actually any children there, it was a lie. When Andy first sees Nile in-person, she knocks Nile out, kidnaps her, and won't let her leave after she wakes up. After Nile and Andy step outside of the church, two characters are forcefully kidnapped, and a rescue is planned and performed for the remainder of the movie.
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Fear
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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Around 33:30 minutes in, Nile Freeman stabs Andy and Andy pulls the knife from her own arm. She says "Can you please not do that again?" and Nile starts r*tching, then ducks in and out of the frame before v**iting. Full audio, I think there's visual. Lasts less than ten seconds and she's fine afterwards.
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Does someone spit?
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During a fight on a plane, Nile hits Andy in the face and Andy spits out blood.
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Large-scale Violence
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
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No, but there's positive depictions of the US military.
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Is there incarceration?
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Several main characters are imprisoned in a private research lab, and in a flashback main characters are imprisoned by church-government authorities.
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LGBTQ+
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Loss
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Medical
Are needles/syringes used?
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We see a syringe inserted into a man's abdomen area, and hear/see his reactions of pain.
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Does someone have cancer?
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One of the main characters lost a loved one to cancer
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Is there a hospital scene?
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Not a "hospital" but a lab with medical equipment and restraints, so it may be triggering nonetheless.
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Mental Health
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In the penthouse at Merrick, Nile grabs someone and jumps out of a window. She does die when she hits the ground (as the immortals can temporarily die) but she comes back to life a few moments later. Additionally, there is a plotline about someone allowing themselves to be tested on in the hopes that it'll someday result in their own death.
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Sort of. Characters are immortal and they are shown intentionally doing things that cause them to die, but this is done with the knowledge that they are immortal. One character discusses trying to find a way to end their life.
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This should be a yes due to a scene where a character deliberately holds her hand in a fire to check whether her self-healing powers are real. She's in obvious pain and there is a shot of her severe burns rapidly healing. Not typical self-harm since she knows she'll heal within seconds, but could definitely be triggering. As mentioned, there's also another scene where she shoots herself in the foot.
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Is there misophonia?
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Lots of loud gunshots. Nile can be heard throwing up after getting out of Andy's van.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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No but Booker expresses suicidal ideation
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Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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Nile has a nightmare about being killed/killing someone else after her time in the military. Booker clearly struggles with the loss of his wife and children.
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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There’s a story told in which a character is locked in coffin on the bottom of the ocean for over 500 years. They die and then revive repeatedly.
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Are there anxiety attacks?
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A few times Nile is shown having slight difficulty breathing and moving around anxiously, and does things like listening to music to calm down.
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Noxious
Are there flashing lights or images?
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No, but some scenes have constant flashes from gunshots that you may want to be aware of.
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Are there underwater scenes?
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Including graphic depiction of dr*wning
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Is there shakey cam?
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The entire movie has a shakey cam
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Paranoia
Is someone watched without knowing?
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the opening scene is recorded by security cameras without the group's knowledge, though they later become aware of it.
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Is the fourth wall broken?
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In the beginning of the movie, a character is narrating. Presumably to the audience, although they aren't directly addressed.
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Pregnancy
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Prejudice
Are there homophobic slurs?
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Not slurs, but obvious disrespect, mocking.
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Does an LGBT person die?
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Two of the main characters are in a same sex relationship, both are immortal and die multiple times. Both are alive at the end of the film. All of the main characters die and the LGBT ones don't die a disproportionate amount.
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Is there hate speech?
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One character makes a homophobic joke, but is quickly told off by another.
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Are there usages of the n-word?
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The man who kills Nile does so as she tries to treat his gunshot wound. He tells her not to touch him. Whether he objects to her being: his killer, an American solider, a woman, an unbeliever, or Black, isn’t clear.
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Does the black guy die first?
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Unknown black soldiers are the first non-immortals killed onscreen (by the main characters on a mission), and one of the main characters is a Black woman who is immortal and alive by the end of the film, but is shown dying graphically before this. [addition: also yes, the only immortal we know of that died is a Black man. he is seen dying in flashbacks at two different points in the film.]
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Race
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Relationships
Is there a large age gap?
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Not between romantic pairings.
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Religious
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Is religion discussed?
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One character ridicules another's belief in God.
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Sex
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Is there sexual content?
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The most sexual part of the movie is when a couple kisses for 1-2 seconds. One character makes a joke about another's sex life.
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Are there nude scenes?
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Nicky and Joe are shown shirtless, otherwise no.
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Is someone sexually objectified?
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There's a remarkable absence of objectification given how common it is in the genre. Both the lead characters are women and neither of them is ever sexually objectified by other characters or the camera.
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Sexism
Is a male character ridiculed for crying?
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Booker cries when speaking about his son, Copley's voice breaks when speaking about his wife, Joe is near tears when trying to wake Nicky. Joe is teased (by the antagonists) for showing affection but he quickly shuts the homophobia down. All together, this movie puts a lot of emphasis on emotional vulnerability of all characters and subverts expectations by having the main cast be emotionally open and supportive, and having the men do the emotional caretaking.
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Sickness
Is there dementia/Alzheimer's?
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Copley discusses his wife who died of ALS or something of that nature
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Is someone terminally ill?
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Several characters discuss the trauma of watching loved ones die of terminal illness (cancer, ALS), of their own inability to save those loved ones, and of receiving hate for that inability.
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Does someone have a chronic illness?
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One character discussing having had a son with cancer, another discusses having a wife with ALS. Both of these characters died before the movie takes place and are only mentioned by others.
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Social
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Spoiler
Does it have a sad ending?
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It has a very bittersweet ending
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Vehicular
Is someone hit by a car?
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no, but there is one instance of characters falling into a car from a high height, both die and one, the villain, is not immortal
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Does a plane crash?
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No, but a pilot stops steering and it looks like a plane is going to go down--turbulence is shown both inside and outside, but it continues safely.
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Violence
Is there blood/gore?
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Constant blood and gore--the main characters are immortal and their wounds heal, but some bad wounds and blood are shown both on them and on others throughout.
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Does someone drown?
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A character is shown drowning and resurrecting multiple times over centuries, and it is discussed in detail
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Is there gun violence?
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Gun violence is constant throughout with a variety of weapons and situations -- it's best to avoid this movie if this is a trigger.
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