Pearl
Movie • 2022 • Horror
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Your Triggers
Yes
2
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148
Abandonment
Yes
5
No
43
Yes
1
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40
Is a child abandoned by a parent?
0 supporters
Yes
9
No
53
8
I'd say emotionally. The mother abandons and disregards the main character's emotions.
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Abuse
Yes
38
No
64
11
a parent is verbally abusive and controlling, and there is a physical altercation between the two, but the child is an adult
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
148 supporters
Yes
6
No
48
2
Pearl lights her mother on fire and kills her sister-in-law.
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Yes
130
No
1
10
A character and one of their parents get into a brief physical altercation at a dinner scene that takes place during a thunderstorm. The altercation begins with threats of using a knife, one character starts yelling, the two characters slap each other while yelling, start pushing each other, and begin wrestling in the dining room.
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Are there abusive parents?
68 supporters
Yes
82
No
4
7
A character’s mother stops them from eating dinner as a punishment.
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Does an abused person forgive their abuser?
53 supporters
Yes
18
No
39
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Pearl's mother emotionally abuses her/is strict to the point of neglect (arguably) and tries to hurt her during a fight, while also threatening to kick her out. Pearl later expresses that she doesn't really hate her mother, who she knows "had a hard life."
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Yes
63
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34
Yes
94
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5
5
There is a mutually abusive parent child relationship where one eventually overpowers the other and goes on to hurt and kill others too
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Is someone stalked?
29 supporters
Yes
2
No
95
-1
Not extensively, but characters are followed / chased by a character with intent to kill.
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Yes
2
No
52
Addiction
Yes
0
No
86
Yes
0
No
86
Yes
105
No
6
7
Someone recreationally takes morphine meant for an ill family member.
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Animal
Are animals abused?
321 supporters
Yes
195
No
3
8
A pet bird is kept in a very small cage, in one scene you see it frantically trying to escape as it likely is being neglected
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Yes
3
No
121
Is there a dead animal?
196 supporters
Yes
166
No
3
12
A goose is killed off-screen with a pitchfork in the opening minutes of the movie after a character feeds the other farm animals. The cries of the goose can be heard and its limp bloody body is shown, still attached to the pitchfork, before being fed to an alligator in a pond. A character also takes a fertile alligator egg from a nest and squishes it with their bare hands.
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62
Yes
0
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104
Are there bugs?
53 supporters
Yes
137
No
4
0
1:14:30
to
1:14:54
Maggots are shown again on screen eating a pig carcass
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Yes
1
No
114
Are there alligators/crocodiles??
1 supporters
Yes
115
No
1
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There is an alligator named Theda… kind of like a weird violent pet that the main character has.
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No
107
Yes
1
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108
Yes
25
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35
Yes
5
No
79
Yes
1
No
107
Does a pet die?
0 supporters
Yes
101
No
24
5
A farm goose is killed, carried on a pitchfork, then fed tk an alligator
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Yes
233
No
2
12
the main character kills a goose at the beginning of the movie with a pitchfork.
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Assault
Yes
4
No
55
Yes
1
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60
Yes
0
No
55
Is someone drugged?
41 supporters
Yes
19
No
41
0
Pearl’s father takes morphine for his condition. Pearl doses him with it once to keep him quiet while she entertains a guest.
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Yes
6
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67
Yes
72
No
1
3
Two women slap one another
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Yes
0
No
62
Is someone's mouth covered?
1 supporters
Yes
53
No
6
2
Pearl kills her father this way.
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Is someone beaten up by a bully?
1 supporters
Yes
10
No
37
0
You could say people are killed by a bully. Pearl likes to make others feel afraid and likes to inflict pain.
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Yes
38
No
88
30
not exactly(?), however a man shows the main character a porn movie without her consent and stands behind her while she watches and later puts his arm around her, nothing happens but personally it made me nervous so just be aware!
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Yes
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No
78
1
To elaborate on the above commenter's statement: there's a scene where Pearl dances with a scarecrow, makes out with it, and then grinds on top of it. The scarecrow is shown to represent one of Pearl's fantasies of a man she meets earlier in the film. Could potentially be triggering for some, but there's no actual human victim involved. Just a straw-stuffed scarecrow.
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Bodily Harm
Is there eye mutilation?
150 supporters
Yes
9
No
68
10
not exactly eye mutilation, but a character’s corpse is shown with one of his eyes sort of bulging out that may be triggering.
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Is there excessive gore?
142 supporters
Yes
98
No
6
6
A couple uncensored murders throughout. The goriest is definitely a small mirrored montage at the end of the film, where there’s hyper detailed up close shots of the main character dismembering a dead woman’s body with an axe.
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Is someone tortured?
128 supporters
Yes
87
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17
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Yes, but it's psychological torture. Pearl's father can't move because he is paralyzed and he is forced to watch Pearl murder people (more implicit than explicit).
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87
Yes
0
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77
Yes
3
No
69
Does a head get squashed?
78 supporters
Yes
24
No
54
9
Technically no, but a character's severed head is fed to an alligator. The alligator does begin to bite down, but the full crushing of the head is never shown on-screen.
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Is there a hanging?
68 supporters
Yes
0
No
83
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A shot of the dangling feet of the scarecrow might look triggering though.
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Is there throat mutilation?
59 supporters
Yes
47
No
3
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Someone is stabbed in the throat with a pitchfork.
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Is there shaving/cutting?
56 supporters
Yes
20
No
62
0
A knife is pulled in one scene but it’s not actually used on anyone.
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Yes
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No
70
Yes
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Yes
1
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33
Yes
0
No
73
Does someone fall down stairs?
21 supporters
Yes
97
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4
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An unconscious woman is dragged down stairs.
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Does someone fall to their death?
20 supporters
Yes
0
No
75
1
A dying character is thrown down the cellar stairs, but we later see evidence that they survived the fall.
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Does someone become unconscious?
12 supporters
Yes
21
No
23
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Her mother is barely alive and unconcious
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Does someone asphyxiate?
1 supporters
Yes
85
No
3
6
A man is suffocated by a pillowcase. Nothing is shown, but it is heard.
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Yes
0
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37
Is there amputation?
1 supporters
Yes
96
No
2
6
A character has their limbs and head cut off during a montage near the end of the movie. Of the many close-ups, there are ones of a severed neck and an arm that is cut in half numerous times on-screen.
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Does someone break a bone?
1 supporters
Yes
4
No
66
3
There are a few violent struggles where characters could possibly break some bones BUT we don’t see it and it’s not actually confirmed.
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Is someone burned alive?
1 supporters
Yes
119
No
1
13
A character catches fire after they come too close to a lit fireplace at a dinner scene that takes place during a thunderstorm. This character does not succumb to their burns, but there is plenty of screaming and visible burn scars that are shown after the fire is put out.
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
1 supporters
Yes
113
No
1
4
A character, while in the bathtub, grabs the throat of another character with one hand. The victim, while not visibly distressed, can be heard struggling to breathe. This same character, the previous victim, is also suffocated to death with a pillowcase later—albeit off-screen—loud groans can be heard.
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Is there decapitation?
1 supporters
Yes
52
No
3
3
there is a graphic depiction of the head being cut off of a dead body and the decapitated head is held up and tossed
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Is there body horror?
1 supporters
Yes
61
No
6
4
Decomposing and charred bodies are shown in detail / in hallucinations, at the end corpses are dressed up. There's a pretty gross moment of a dead body's hair being brushed
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Is someone stabbed?
1 supporters
Yes
42
No
0
0
Many standings throughout
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Is someone buried alive?
1 supporters
Yes
1
No
84
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Pearl's mother
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Yes
0
No
92
Is someone choked?
1 supporters
Yes
54
No
1
4
A paralyzed man is briefly choked.
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Children
Is a minor sexualized?
138 supporters
Yes
6
No
65
-3
Pearl is apparently around 16 years old in the movie.
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Yes
3
No
80
Yes
0
No
61
Creepy Crawly
Are there bedbugs?
23 supporters
Yes
0
No
36
0
No but there is a significant shot of maggots crawling through a rotting corpse of an animal. Viewer discretion is advised.
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Death
Does a major character die?
39 supporters
Yes
45
No
4
4
All of the major characters besides Pearl die.
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Does someone sacrifice themselves?
18 supporters
Yes
1
No
56
2
Not in a death way, but Pearl does sacrifice her own happiness and dreams, could be seen as a part of herself, in order to try and live the simple farm life with her husband that's always been expected of her. As shown in the credits, she knows she'll be miserable for the rest of her life.
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Does a non-human character die?
1 supporters
Yes
35
No
26
2
animals, not something like an alien or a robot
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Does someone die?
1 supporters
Yes
51
No
1
1
Pearl kills her mother, her father, her sister-in-law, and a film projectionist
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Disability
Yes
0
No
82
Yes
45
No
2
Drugs/Alcohol
Yes
0
No
72
Family
Yes
0
No
77
Does a parent die?
39 supporters
Yes
105
No
1
3
Two characters that could be considered "parents" both die in this movie. One is burned alive and pushed down a flight of stairs (their official "death" is off-screen) while the other is suffocated to death with a pillowcase off-screen although their struggles can be heard.
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Yes
49
No
0
Does someone cheat?
28 supporters
Yes
107
No
1
6
A character cheats on their spouse, who is overseas, by having sex with another character. The sexual act itself is implied and mentioned rather than explicitly shown.
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Is someone kidnapped?
17 supporters
Yes
3
No
66
3
One character is trapped in the basement.
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Fear
Are there jump scares?
97 supporters
Yes
47
No
29
8
A character wanders into a cornfield and birds (likely crows) startle them as they walk around. Another character is also startled by another when they appear behind them and tap them on the back.
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Yes
0
No
36
Yes
0
No
83
Are there clowns?
16 supporters
Yes
0
No
78
7
Technically no, but during a dance recital, a character imagines that more dancers are following along with them onstage. These dancers are wearing military uniforms and are wearing what could be considered as clown makeup (Face painted white, painted on rosy cheeks, and black circles drawn around the eyes).
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Is there a shower scene?
13 supporters
Yes
27
No
48
8
There are a few scenes with the main character Pearl in a bath, but it’s very clean and tasteful.
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Yes
0
No
80
Are there mannequins?
6 supporters
Yes
17
No
35
9
Kinda, the scarecrow is a little mannequin-esc.
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Are there natural bodies of water?
4 supporters
Yes
51
No
0
2
There is a lake/pond behind Pearl’s house.
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Yes
1
No
44
2
No, but a woman does hold a kitchen knife to a man’s throat and threaten to kill him.
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
183 supporters
Yes
4
No
100
5
man spits up blood after being stabbed by pearl
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Yes
0
No
38
Is someone eaten?
50 supporters
Yes
28
No
14
3
It's not shown but implied that a gator eats a human corpse, and another person is almost fed to that same gator.
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Does someone wet/soil themselves?
33 supporters
Yes
76
No
14
15
We don’t actually see it in the movie but characters speak about how a physically disabled man often soils himself and needs to have his clothing changed and be cleaned.
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Yes
1
No
40
Does someone spit?
18 supporters
Yes
57
No
20
7
Slight dribble from Pearl's father, and spittle from pearl when speaking with a lot of emotion.
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Is there audio gore?
1 supporters
Yes
82
No
2
2
Audio gore frequently accompanies the killings.
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Large-scale Violence
Are there 9/11 depictions?
8 supporters
Yes
0
No
74
1
Movie set in 1918, so way before 9/11.
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Law Enforcement
Yes
1
No
80
Is there incarceration?
1 supporters
Yes
0
No
42
0
Despite what you might think, nobody actually gets arrested in this movie
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LGBTQ+
Yes
0
No
46
Yes
0
No
42
Is there bisexual cheating?
31 supporters
Yes
2
No
52
5
There is cheating, but only among a heatersexual couple (as far as we’re shown onscreen).
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Yes
1
No
41
Yes
0
No
45
Loss
Yes
0
No
37
Medical
Yes
0
No
77
Yes
0
No
76
Yes
0
No
79
Yes
0
No
75
Yes
0
No
77
Yes
0
No
34
Yes
0
No
8
Mental Health
Yes
0
No
85
Yes
1
No
37
Is there misophonia?
49 supporters
Yes
52
No
17
10
In terms of food-related misophonia, yes. There are multiple instances of characters eating food at a dining table and slurps of soup and the chewing of corn can be seen and heard.
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
49 supporters
Yes
0
No
78
5
No but a mom doesn’t allow her daughter to eat food at points even though she’s quite hungry.
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
44 supporters
Yes
109
No
2
11
ambiguously but implied mentally ill character harms people and animals
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
40 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
76
Does someone suffer from PTSD?
36 supporters
Yes
15
No
62
1
[SPOILERS] Pearl suffers minor flashbacks/hallucinations of her mother throughout the latter half of the movie.
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Is reality unstable or unhinged?
36 supporters
Yes
33
No
11
1
The main character really wants to be a film star. Some of the scenes mix real life and stage/film performance
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Is there body dysmorphia?
33 supporters
Yes
2
No
74
2
Subtextual beginnings of it. Nowhere near as intense as we know it will get in 'X'.
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Are there anxiety attacks?
27 supporters
Yes
7
No
66
2
On the extreme spectrum no, but a character does admit to feeling nervous before a dance audition. Outside of the church, they talk about feeling "frightened," they begin to become more silent, and they ask another character to take their place in line to avoid going first.
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Yes
0
No
37
Yes
2
No
42
Does someone have a mental illness?
14 supporters
Yes
50
No
0
5
It’s implied that Pearl experiences low- or no empathy
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Does someone have a meltdown?
12 supporters
Yes
40
No
2
2
There are a couple meltdowns where Pearl screams and yells, and a particularly heavy one late in the movie where she screams and sobs very loudly and is clearly upset.
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Does someone attempt suicide?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
1 supporters
Add comment
Yes
1
No
73
Yes
0
No
53
Yes
1
No
83
Yes
28
No
2
Yes
0
No
70
Does someone die by suicide?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
1 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
84
Natural Disasters
Yes
0
No
8
Noxious
Are there flashing lights or images?
62 supporters
Yes
42
No
26
5
A heavy thunderstorm outside frequently flashes light into scenes from the window. There are also some outside shots where lightning strikes and light flashes momentarily.
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Is there shakey cam?
61 supporters
Yes
2
No
62
3
towards the end of the movie there's a scene with hand-held camera. it's shakey, but nothing too extreme
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Are there sudden loud noises?
53 supporters
Yes
27
No
4
2
A few small audio jumpscares with music peaking, crows cawing, etc.
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Does a baby cry?
26 supporters
Yes
0
No
78
2
No babies in this movie
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Are there underwater scenes?
14 supporters
Yes
0
No
31
1
Not underwater, but there are scenes that take place in a bathtub. The character in the bath do not submerge themselves and we do not see any explicit parts of their body.
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Is there obscene language/gestures?
1 supporters
Yes
45
No
8
4
A character masturbates using a scarecrow.
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Is there screaming?
1 supporters
Yes
34
No
1
0
Pearl screams often when she’s upset, occasionally while speaking.
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Paranoia
Is someone watched without knowing?
22 supporters
Yes
30
No
4
3
we don’t see someone being watched, but the mother says to pearl that she sees the things pearl does when she thinks no one is watching
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Is the fourth wall broken?
14 supporters
Yes
19
No
53
13
Technically no, since no characters acknowledge the audience in the film, but the final scene falls into a bit of a gray area. In it, a character walks into a house and is greeted by another character with a comment and a creepy smile. The final shot of the film is that character holding a smile while staring directly into the camera for nearly the full duration of the end credits—to the point that tears well up in their eyes. Their staring could be interpreted as them looking at the audience, as the other character in the room never comments on their staring, nor does the smiling character stop staring to engage with the other character in the room.
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Pregnancy
Does someone miscarry?
41 supporters
Yes
83
No
2
15
Mentioned but not shown.
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Yes
0
No
78
Yes
0
No
80
Are there abortions?
26 supporters
Yes
0
No
76
4
Not abortion, but a mother who is clearly stating that she did not want a baby (that didn’t survive). Nothing is shown on screen, just discussed
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Are there babies or unborn children?
22 supporters
Yes
8
No
65
5
A fertilized egg is crushed, and some blood comes out. To avoid, look away when Pearl goes up to the hayloft.
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Is a baby stillborn?
1 supporters
Yes
2
No
68
2
Insinuated; not actually depicted
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Prejudice
Yes
0
No
80
Yes
0
No
77
Yes
0
No
80
Yes
0
No
80
Is there ableist language or behavior?
53 supporters
Yes
88
No
22
19
I have no idea why people voted no. The main character repeatedly complains about, berates, and contemplates and performs violence against her disabled father. She herself seems to have some mental issues and falls into the mentally ill killer trope
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Yes
0
No
81
Is a minority misrepresented?
40 supporters
Yes
15
No
36
7
I’d say yes. The main character is a murderer and implied to be mentally ill
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Is there hate speech?
39 supporters
Yes
3
No
69
5
No, but one character recalls how they and their family have been mistreated for being German during a dinner scene
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
0
No
77
Yes
0
No
79
2
No, but they are in WW1 and there’s references to that
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Does the black guy die first?
27 supporters
Yes
0
No
79
6
There are no Black people in the film, probably for the best given the setting is 1918 Texas
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Is there Aphobia?
1 supporters
Yes
0
No
39
-3
I don’t remember any ace characters but there is a brief scene where a character says pornography is the future of cinema and shows it to a character who is not asexual but does not seem into it
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Race
Yes
0
No
38
Relationships
Is there a large age gap?
45 supporters
Yes
1
No
71
-3
It is unclear how old the parent characters in the movie are, but the real-life age gap between the two actors is only two years. The same applies to the protagonist and their lover—whose actors only have an age gap of one year.
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Religious
Are there demons or Hell?
15 supporters
Yes
3
No
29
0
Religious consequences and sin are frequently discussed, mostly by the mother who accuses Pearl of sinful behavior (implying she will go to hell)
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Is religion discussed?
15 supporters
Yes
32
No
1
2
Multiple scenes where people are praying
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Sex
Yes
0
No
51
Yes
4
No
87
18
Pearl bathes in front of her father multiple times, which could be uncomfortable or triggering. However, nothing incestuous happens between them.
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Is there sexual content?
80 supporters
Yes
105
No
0
12
A character straddles a scarecrow early on to the point of their own climax. Plenty of moaning occurs as well. Later, in a movie theatre, two characters watch a foreign film that depicts a man and two women having sex outdoors. The genitalia of one woman is briefly shown as she smiles at the camera. There is also implied sexual content in the form of two characters meeting up, kissing, and later, one is shown getting out of a bed in their underwear.
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Is someone sexually objectified?
53 supporters
Yes
56
No
30
10
the guy who works at the movie mentions (a few times i think) that he would like to see the main character in a p***o
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Yes
0
No
37
Yes
0
No
39
Are there nude scenes?
1 supporters
Yes
80
No
2
0
Nudity shown through an adult movie watched by Pearl and the projectionist.
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Sexism
Yes
0
No
78
Sickness
Yes
0
No
50
Is someone terminally ill?
31 supporters
Yes
30
No
9
2
A character is described as "infirm" and their illness is central to the main character's mindset.
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Does someone have a chronic illness?
19 supporters
Yes
71
No
0
5
Pearls father has an unspecified illness which makes him unable to walk and speak. He’s taken care of by his daughter and wife troughout the movie. If this triggers you i suggest skipping the movie because he plays a pretty major role.
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Does someone have a stroke?
1 supporters
Yes
3
No
57
3
While never explicitly stated, Pearl's father appears to be a stroke victim and is left disabled
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Social
Yes
0
No
36
Yes
0
No
45
Yes
0
No
34
Is someone homeless?
4 supporters
Yes
7
No
64
4
One character lives where he works, and refers to himself as a 'bohemian', but he has no issue with it.
3 comments | Add comment
Spoiler
Does it have a sad ending?
87 supporters
Yes
65
No
13
6
imo the smile seemed more forced/with mixed feelings than only sincere joy
4 comments | Add comment
Are there end credit scenes?
75 supporters
Yes
7
No
28
3
A scene plays in the background of the credits, but disappears a few minutes in.
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
0
No
74
Vehicular
Does a car crash?
30 supporters
Yes
55
No
19
4
Someone is killed in a car they were trying to drive. It rolls some distance before stopping. Later, we see it being pushed into a lake.
3 comments | Add comment
Yes
0
No
74
Yes
0
No
69
Yes
15
No
43
Violence
Is there blood/gore?
84 supporters
Yes
98
No
0
5
Many instances of blood and gore.
6 comments | Add comment
Yes
1
No
74
Yes
0
No
71
Does someone drown?
1 supporters
Yes
7
No
70
4
Corpses are thrown into a lake - no active drowning
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