Does the dog die?
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The Whale
Movie • 2022
ReportA reclusive English teacher suffering from severe obesity attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption.
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Picture of dead dog shown on screen from facebook page.
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Is there domestic violence?
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Abandonment
Is a child abandoned by a parent?
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sophievokes22
the main character adandons his daughter to be with a man and that is want most of the film based on
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Addiction
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sophievokes22
weed, sleeping pills and alcohol are in the film
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Is there addiction?
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sophievokes22
to eating and it is suggested another character is an alcoholic
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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sophievokes22
the daughter tells the dad that her mum is only happy when drinking
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Assault
Does a woman get slapped?
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Is someone drugged?
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sophievokes22
the daughter drugs the the dad with ambien
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Bodily Harm
Is there shaving/cutting?
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sophievokes22
no cutting but the main character is shown shaving his face
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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sophievokes22
the main character chokes on food at one point, but throughout he struggles to breath due to his size, there is a lot of wheezing
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Is someone choked?
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not choked but a character does choke on food
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Is someone stabbed?
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CarlyP
No one is hurt but it is joked about between two characters and the stabbing motion is made
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Creepy Crawly
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Death
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Does a major character die?
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sophievokes22
the main character is seen going into the light at the end of the film, presumably dying
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Disability
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Is the r-slur used?
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sophievokes22
once towards the middle of the film
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Is there a shower scene?
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sophievokes22
nothing graphic
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Are there natural bodies of water?
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the sea
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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A character binge eats in an aggressive manner as a form of self harm towards himself, he ends up puking on himself. A long sequence depicting his mental state.
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Mental Health
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sophievokes22
personally, i think the main character has depression and a binge eating disorder
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sophievokes22
no cutting, self harm in the form of the main character eating himself to death
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sophievokes22
yes but it is not onscreen, just talked about
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
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sophievokes22
the main character seems to have some kind of binge eating disorder as throughout the film he is eating himself to death but doesn’t seem to care that the food is killing him
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sophievokes22
the main characters partner is thought to have jumped off a bridge. it is not on onscreen, only talked about
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Noxious
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Is there screaming?
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shouting not screaming
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Prejudice
Are there homophobic slurs?
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sophievokes22
faggot is used once
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
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sophievokes22
the slur retarded is used once
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Does an LGBT person die?
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sophievokes22
a presumed gay man kills himself due to religion
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Are there fat jokes?
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sophievokes22
the movie is based around a person with severe obesity, so there are severe fat jokes made by him as self deprecation and other characters
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Is there hate speech?
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sophievokes22
there are a some slurs used
faggot and retarded
faggot and retarded
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Religious
Is religion discussed?
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sophievokes22
christianity is a big part of the film, and there is a lot of religious manipulation
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Is there sexual content?
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sophievokes22
the main character is masturbating to pornography at the beginning of the film, nothing graphic
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Sickness
Is someone terminally ill?
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someone has congestive heart failure, but its only talked about specifically once or twice
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Does someone have a chronic illness?
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congestive heart failure
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Social
Are there fat suits?
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sophievokes22
the main character is an actor wearing a fat suit
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Is existentialism debated?
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by the main character
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Spoiler
Does it have a sad ending?
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sophievokes22
the whole film is extremely bleak
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