After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl comes along by the name of "Beloved". Sethe and Denver take her in and then strange things start to happen...
This movie contains 7 potentially triggering events.
The dog does not die on screen and his death isn't addressed. The assumption is that he dies of age. He's badly injured in the first scene and Sethe tends to the wounds. The special effects are pretty graphic and there are lots of sounds of the dog in pain, but he's shown to be alright a little later.
Skip about 10 minutes in. In the opening scene, a dog is being thrown around the room by an unseen supernatural force and gets thrown against the wall. It is audible and you hear the dog yelp, as well as see it fall to the ground.
Not a human but an animal - the opening scene shows a dog beaten to the point where his eye is hanging out of its socket. We see a character put it back in.
There are multiple flashback scenes involving the beating, whipping and hanging of slaves, as well as a particularly graphic scene where Sethe is being assaulted and humiliated by slave owners
There are instances of whipping,;a character is found in a field with a beaten and bloody face. A baby is shown to have had its throat slit - quite bloody.
Skip about 10 minutes in. In the opening scene, a dog is being thrown around the room by an unseen supernatural force and gets thrown against the wall. It is audible and you hear the dog yelp, as well as see it fall to the ground.
Skip about 10 minutes in. In the opening scene, a dog is being thrown around the room by an unseen supernatural force and gets thrown against the wall. It is audible and you hear the dog yelp, as well as see it fall to the ground.
The entire story revolves around the fact that the character of Beloved was murdered as a child by her mother, who preferred to kill her own children rather than have them be sol as slaves.
Sethe is raped through her life by multiple men, and she is described as having consensual s*x with both Paul B and her husband. Paul B also suffers sexual abuse at the hands of man and is eventually raped by Beloved, who uses the supernatural control she has over him to force him into having s*x on multiple occasion.
Multiple men are briefly mentioned to have engaged in acts of b********y