a dog dies
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There are no pets in the movie, and no animals at all except a fly
someone is sexually assaulted
Yes
an animal dies
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I love this group cause the fly is something I’d want to know about and not most people would care about that.
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animals were harmed in the making
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The fly was CGI.
there's a dead animal
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Crayfish can be seen close up in great detail being consumed, as well as a fly drowning in a glass of wine.
animals are abused
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there are bugs
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There are a couple shots of a fly, once on someone's neck and once in a drink.
an animal is abandoned
Yes
a child is abandoned by a parent or guardian
Yes
someone leaves without saying goodbye
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I would consider leaving your former self in a cold dark room for a week a bit like abandonment
there's child abuse
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Child in distress during final act at New Year’s Eve show
a woman is brutalized for spectacle
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Horrible things happen to a woman as this is the point of the movie. But I'd say this is a feminist movie, she isn't brutalized to appeal to audiences
there's domestic violence
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Not in the classic sense of partner or parental violence, but there is a lot of extreme physical violence in the home.
there's abusive parents
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No parental figure present in the story
the abused forgives their abuser
Yes
someone gets gaslighted
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People lie and are abusive but there aren't any plain depictions of gaslighting.
someone is abused with a belt
Yes
the abused becomes the abuser
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Technically speaking yes
someone is stalked
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A side character follows the main character from the location where she gets the subtance to a nearby diner. She’s shown being very stressed about this and constantly looking behind herself as she runs.
there's addiction
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Arguable. The main character behaves like an addict towards "The Substance" which is an allegory for plastic surgery and other youth-sustaining products. There are lines about 'wanting to stop' and being unable to stop.
alcohol abuse
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Sue goes out drinking and brings home a man. The next day it is shown that they had a lot of alcohol.
someone uses drugs
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lingering shots of injection paraphernalia, as well as intermittent and close-up scenes of injection throughout the movie. CW DETAILS: includes healthy vein & subcutaneous injection, tournquet use, slow needle insertion, spinal injection, and injection into an infected site.
someone is sexually assaulted onscreen
Yes
there's pedophilia
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Not as such, but there is a lot of sexualization of younger women (of legal age) by men far older than them
someone is drugged
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no portrayel of malicious, unconsenting dosing, but one character must set up injection for the unconscious other throughout the movie.
a woman gets slapped
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Not slapped? But extensively brutalised. This film is very violent against a woman's body.
someone is beaten up by a bully
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Physical fighting, no beatings from a bully.
someone's mouth is covered
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not a super specific portrayel, but within the realm of body horror, we get an open mouthed face slowly covered by fabric in the third act, as well as the character in the third act who struggles to speak (no covering of her mouth)
someone is held under water
Yes
someone is restrained
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I don’t know if this counts but one character is locked in a room against her will
there's eye mutilation
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There's kind of 'everything mutilation' in this movie but in particular there are some shots of eyes duplicating themselves and bulging
there's excessive gore
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Tons of 80s style prosthetics, comically large amounts of blood, surgical stuff, wounds, etc. Extremely gory film.
there's torture
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One person is knowingly causing harm and permanent damage to another person for their own benefit, resulting in deformities and the worsening of a rather grotesque injury. This happens while the abused is unconscious. The abused is always horrified to find this happens and starts to feel more and more trapped, hurt and can no longer live a normal life without fear of the abuser.
there's genital trauma/mutilation
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in the second act, there is a quick nightmare scene where the main character squats and experiences a bulging/herniation in her buttocks; in the third act, the main character emerges with full-body deformity that includes breast placement. later, a breast is produced through a orifice on the deformed body and falls to the ground.
there's body horror
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Extensive, think 80s horror like The Fly or The Thing
there's finger/toe mutilation
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Fingernails peeling off in a grotesque way towards the end of the film
teeth are damaged
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yeah she pulls out 3 of her teeth very realistic too
someone's throat is mutilated
Yes
there's cannibalism
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No, but fluids are taken out of one person and injected into another for sustenance
there's shaving/cutting
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No, but there is a huge cut - like wound in the main characters back. It is also graphically shown when it is being sewn back up
someone is buried alive
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No, but someone is sealed in a dark room while unconscious
there's amputation
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in the third act: the flesh of an ear falls off, a hand is amputated and showers blood, and a head is lopped/knocked off. all three of these scenes happen extremely fast and are positioned with an air of absurdity/campiness.
someone struggles to breathe
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There is gasping for air at several parts, but not necessarily suffocating
someone asphyxiates
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No but more than once a character has an extremely difficult time breathing which could be super triggering to some people
somebody is choked
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A character chokes another in a violent fight inside the home
hands are damaged
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At the end, a fingernail peels off, resulting in loss of the whole finger.
someone is stabbed
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No knives, but there are many repeated scenes of needle injection
someone dislocates something
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while not explicit dislocation, bone crunching foley heard throughout some transformation scenes, as well as a scene where an old, arthritic knee is forced out of locking in order for the character to stand up.
someone has a seizure
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there are seizure- like moments but not traditional seizures
someone falls down stairs
Yes
someone falls to their death
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The creature at the end falls and explodes, in a sense dying, but not a traditional “fall to death” scenario
Someone becomes unconscious
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Each time the drug is used or a 'switch' happens the character collapses dramatically. There is also one scene in the final third where a character is beaten unconscious.
someone breaks a bone
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There's one long moment where an arthritic knee is forced to move, with bone breaking sounds. Later a finger snaps off.
there's decapitation
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an attempted decapitation causes the explosion mentioned
heads get squashed
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Not exactly squashed but repeatedly (to a comical degree) bashed against the wall with full visual of the gore
there's Achilles Tendon injury
Yes
someone is crushed to death
Yes
a minor is sexualized
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Old men sexualize young, barely legal women
a kid dies
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A child is not physically harmed, but they are shown experiencing a probably very traumatising event and getting covered in blood.
a non-human character dies
Yes
a major character dies
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upvote this instead of the huge spoiler. come on dude
someone dies
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Technically the same person dies 3 times
someone sacrifices themselves
Yes
someone disabled played by able-bodied
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there is some rapid aging related mobility loss in elizabeth's body, in particular one of her legs and an arthritic knee. however, most of the rapid aging is visual only, rather than mobility related.
someone overdoses
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Voting yes because it could be triggering to people with drug or cosmetic procedure addiction. Needles are used in an irresponsible way
A child's dear toy is destroyed
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A snow globe is thrown and shattered, but it's not framed as expressly a child's toy
there are jump scares
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There's 4 total jumpscares, 2 of them are minor, 1 intermediate e 1 a major, from my point of view:
The first is the intermediate one, that happens when her car is involved in an accident
The second one is the major, ir happens when they make the first transition, a dark road appears and a motorcycle starts to accelerate, then it happens
The thirt one is a sound jump scare, she is gonna take off a post it on from a glass wall, and the sound suddenly pops out
The fourth one is at the final part of the movie, it happens when she goes to her apartment at the new year's eve presentation. She does something at her restroom and the jumpscare happens when she is about to look at the mirror.
there are shower scenes
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There are many times in the film where the characters are shown nude in the shower, usually in various states of distress.
there are mannequins
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In the scene where Sue is first out in the world, she spots a unitard on mannequin.
trypophobic content is shown
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There are two brief scenes where a persons iris multiplies on their eyeball, that could be triggering.
someone vomits
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15:46 - 15:57 elisabeth v* after drinking martinis at the bar
31:04 - 31:10 sue v* after seeing elisabeth on the floor
1:23:15 sue gags
1:27:24 little gag from elisabeth
1:33:13 sue gags
1:39:03 - 1:39:10 elisabeth coughs and spits
1:51:57 - 1:52:21 sue coughs
1:59:30 - 1:59:50 elisasue v* after transformation
2:06:37 - 2:07:11 elisasue gags while something comes out of her eye
There's audio gore
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Tons, constantly. This is a very misphonic movie.
there's farting
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no but there is a joke towards the beginning with the word farts
there's spitting
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There's one shot towards the end where someone spits directly at the camera, it's quite gross. There is a lot lot lot of mouth misophonia stuff, open mouth chewing, too.
someone wets/soils themselves
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There is a scene towards the start of the movie where a character is shown urinating in a restroom. They don't wet themselves, but there is audio
someone defecates
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No, but there is a shot of a man at a urinal — closeup of his face
there's deadnaming or birthnaming
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There’s one scene though where a character doesn’t like another character’s name and comes up with a new name for them
a priceless artifact is destroyed
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No but several expensive items are damaged
there's a hospital scene
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The main character is briefly in hospital after a car crash.
there's menstruation
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no, but when a man sees blood on the floor he asks a female character if she's cranky because she's on her period
needles/syringes are used
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Many times in the film, in grotesque ways. You can generally see it coming, basically anytime she's in the bathroom with her body double. The worst bit is towards the end she's putting a large needle repeatedly into an infected wound.
Someone attempts suicide
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The character expresses no longer willing to live in a certain version of herself, willing to endure extensive suffering to no longer live in her life anymore, ultimately tries to kill a version of herself. Not a traditional suicide attempt by any means, but could be interpreted as suicidal ideation in certain ways.
someone self harms
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Yes, the main character harms herself several times throughout the movie, through smacking herself in the head/face, pulling her hair, rending at her face, berating herself in a classic dysregulation/punishment cycle, sometimes banging her head against the wall.
there's misophonia
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It’s pretty unbearable throughout the entire movie
someone has an eating disorder
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Absolutely, I’d say it’s a major theme. Extreme binging & body dysmorphia for sure.
a mentally ill person is violent
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Arguable. If you characterise the main character as mentally ill... there is a lot of violence in this movie.
someone says "I'll kill myself"
Yes
reality is unstable or unhinged
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There are hallucinations sometimes, it is never clear how real they are.
there's a claustrophobic scene
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A character is locked in a walled off room, and a character is essentially locked-in or dissociates for periods of time
D.I.D. Misrepresentation
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DID is not part of the story but this story does have DID features, with splits between body and self.
there's dissociation, depersonalization, or derealization
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Elisabeth suffers alot of DP and DR. She loses her sense of self to Sue, and loses contact with reality after Sue is made.
Also Sue starts to harm her and completely disconnect or dissociate from E. Might be a metaphor for DID or UID
someone has an anxiety attack
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Not exactly. But the way they film the character's experience when she is due to 'switch' may be reminiscent of an anxiety attack.
there's body dysphoria
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No. There is body dysmorphia, not dysphoria.
someone has a mental illness
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Not explicitly stated, but a character experiences stmproms of body dysmorphia and depression.
someone has a meltdown
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Depending on the definition of a 'meltdown', the main character experiences scenes of dysregulation and responds with self harm, as well as a scene of overwhelm where she snaps as a colleague.
someone dies by suicide
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Technically yes? But in more of a metaphorical sense.
there's body dysmorphia
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The main character is so dissatisfied with her body that she goes to extremes to become young again, with catastrophic consequences.
there's flashing lights or images
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there are 2 scenes where they use the activactor, they're pretty long (about 20 sec each) it triggered my migraines
shaky cam is used
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A lot
there are sudden loud noises
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A ton of loud and nasty noises throughout the movie
a baby cries
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A child cries a lot at the end of the movie
there is obscene language/gestures
Yes
there's screaming
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Lots, during severe fighting scenes
someone is watched without knowing
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Not explicitly, but there’s implications it could be happening, depending on how you interpret certain scenes
the fourth wall is broken
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Not explicitly, although there are a lot of staring-directly-into-mirror-reflection scenes that might trigger someone sensitive to it
there is a baby or unborn child
Yes
there's childbirth
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There are scenes reminiscent of birthing as the new self emerges from her former body, pulls things out of her body, and the monster at the end “births” a breast, in a sense.
there are homophobic slurs
Yes
there's fat jokes
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Not jokes but derogatory comments about fatness and body image
there's ableist language or behavior
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No, but I do think some might be troubled by this film's treatment of disfigurement. There is a 'monster' in the film. The message is not at all about disability but could be read that way.
someone speaks hate speech
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Misogynistic and ageist comments are made but presented negatively.
there's antisemitism
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This comment is more anti-semetic than anything in the movie
the black guy dies first
Yes
there's a large age gap
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Arguable. The main character is 50 but gets to live in a younger body so has relationships with younger men. However, the men in the film are generally portrayed as predatory so it doesn't have the 'vibes' of an age gap relationship.
there is sexual content
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No explicit sex but lots of nudity, sexualised imagery, and one scene of drunk people about to have sex (thwarted)
there are nude scenes
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Lots of nudity in this film, not generally sexual though
someone is sexually objectified
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The young version of the character is filmed in a highly sexualised way, to a comical degree
someone loses their virginity
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Sue has sex for the first time, its not talked about however. One might Even Wonder if she is a virgin since she is Elisabeth which is not
someone is terminally ill
Yes
someone has a chronic illness
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No typical chronic illness depicted, but use of the substance is repeatedly shown as necessary throughout, so characters experience illness (ie. vertigo, pain, nose/ear bleeds) only alleviated by injection.
there's fat suits
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Not a fat suit, but a large deformed body prosthetic is used at the end of the film.
existentialism is debated
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Sort of? A character is constantly reminded that they and another character are the same person, and the whole movie could be seen as aging, trying to prevent it, and trying to survive within the male gaze
the ending is sad
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Arguable. It's certainly not a happy movie but maybe you could think she found peace.
a car crashes
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There is a dramatic rolling car crash towards the beginning of the film. It's shot from inside the car. The character is shown uninjured afterwards.
a person is hit by a car
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A character is driving in their car and gets hit by another car in a big jumpscare moment.
a car honks or tires screech
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There is a dramatic rolling car crash towards the beginning of the film.
there's blood/gore
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Tons, constantly.
there's gun violence
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At the end, there are calls for someone to shoot at a monster, but it doesn't really happen.
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