Does the dog die?
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Movie • 1984 • War
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Documentary style account of a nuclear holocaust and its effect on the working class city of Sheffield, England; and the eventual long run effects of nuclear war on civilization.
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Dead dogs and cats are shown, though their deaths happen off-screen.
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Abandonment
Is a child abandoned by a parent?
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a child is shown calling for its mother after the explosion
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Does someone leave without saying goodbye?
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Once where Ruth runs away from home during the Finningley attack.
Then another where Jimmy leaves his colleague to go and look for Ruth.
Then another where Jimmy leaves his colleague to go and look for Ruth.
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Is an animal abandoned?
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Animals are shown walking through the rubble after the explosion, presumably because their owners have died.
Also a dog goes briefly missing whilst a family is preparing to leave the city, but he does appear again shortly afterwards.
Also a dog goes briefly missing whilst a family is preparing to leave the city, but he does appear again shortly afterwards.
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Abuse
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One child is shown being grotesquely abused by another, and a teen/young adult is shown being shot
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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Ruth's daughter is implied to be sexually assaulted, but the majority of it happens off-screen with only the start of it shown (near the end of the film).
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Is there domestic violence?
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Does the abused become the abuser?
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Addiction
Does someone abuse alcohol?
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Mr Kemp is seen attempting to drink whisky which he traded his cigarettes to another man for. It doesn't go too well with radiation sickness.
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Animal
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Does a cat die?
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A cat is shown asphyxiating during a fire storm (the cat was, in reality, dosed with catnip to get it to roll around as if it was dying.)
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In addition to the other scenes mentioned here, there is a prolonged scene arond the hour and-a-half mark involving a dead sheep. It begins with a close-up of the (bloodless) corpse, but the two characters involved end up cutting open the sheep and eating it raw. This goes on for a couple minutes.
After this, near the end of the film, a close-up of a dead rabbit is shown. A girl picks up the corpse and runs around with it, as two boys try to steal it from her.
After this, near the end of the film, a close-up of a dead rabbit is shown. A girl picks up the corpse and runs around with it, as two boys try to steal it from her.
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Were animals harmed in the making?
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A scene of a dying cat was portrayed by using catnip.
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Is there a dead animal?
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A kitten is shown dying from the radiation. It's gruesome and simply awful.
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Are rabbits harmed?
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A dead rabbit is shown near the end, but as far as I'm aware no actual rabbits were harmed when making the film.
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Are there spiders?
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The film opens with a spider spinning a web. It's presented in a peaceful manner and isn't intended to trigger/scare the viewer.
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Are there bugs?
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Maggots.
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Assault
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We see the events leading up to it but the camera cuts away right before the actual assault.
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A 13 year old girl is raped by another teenager.
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Is rape mentioned?
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Towards the end of the film, Ruth's daughter is raped by a boy her age.
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Does a woman get slapped?
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Is someone's mouth covered?
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If you want to count the man who has his mouth stuffed with rags while his leg is being cut off with a saw...
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Bodily Harm
Is there eye mutilation?
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When the first blast wave hits, people get glass from shattered windows in their eyes.
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Is there excessive gore?
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Multiple charred corpses are shown, as well as people with severe radiation burns and profusely bleeding wounds.
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Is there body horror?
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No body horror of the fantasy or sci-fi variety but a lot of gore as bodies are shown, both dead and alive, in various state of injury and decay. Often quite gruesome.
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Does a head get squashed?
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Technically one member of the council is killed when a beam hits him on the head in the council basement.
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Is someone crushed to death?
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Several corpses are shown buried underneath debris and rubble after the attack.
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Is someone buried alive?
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Somewhat, a group is caved in and unable to be dug out
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Is there amputation?
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a mans leg is amputated during the hospital scene
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Does someone asphyxiate?
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A group of people are trapped in an underground bunker and uncovered weeks later, and so likely either died of eventual asphyxiation or lack of food.
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Is someone stabbed?
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In the hospital scene there is evidence of people having been impaled with debris, but nothing of anybody being stabbed by another person.
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Is there a hanging?
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Technically, near the end of the film, some corpses are seen hanging in the city ruins. How they got there isn't known.
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Is someone tortured?
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There's a scene that shows a death-by-shooting style execution. An actual scene of physical torture, however, is not shown.
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Does someone fall down stairs?
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No, but Ruth's nan has to be helped down the stairs into their makeshift bunker.
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Is someone burned alive?
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There are many people seen burning. Lots of scenes of corpses on fire or smoldering as well.
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Are any hands damaged?
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Graphic wounds to people's hands, including radiation burns, are shown.
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Children
Is a minor sexualized?
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No but a teenager is sexually assaulted, mainly offscreen.
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Does a kid die?
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In addition to seeing that a kid has died in the initial blast (his legs are seen in rubble), one childbirth scene appears to end with a mutated and/or stillbirth. The camera never focuses on the newborn.
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Creepy Crawly
Are there bedbugs?
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No, but there are maggots, flies, and a spider.
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Death
Does a major character die?
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Pretty Much everyone dies.
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Does someone die?
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Very much so.
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Disability
Is the r-slur used?
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Only in the context of a warning that radiation can cause physical deformities and mental retardation to fetuses. Not as a slur.
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Drugs/Alcohol
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Family
Does a parent die?
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Several characters (who happen to be parents) die during the attack and aftermath.
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Does a family member die?
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Out of Jimmy's family, only Allison survives. Out of Ruth's, only she does. She is then survived by her 10 year old daughter, Jane.
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Does someone cheat?
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An engaged man is in a car with a woman he had just met in a pub. It's implied they were having sex but you don't see anything
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Is someone kidnapped?
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Multiple people are captured and incarcerated by the police.
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Is a child's toy destroyed?
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A figure of ET is burned by a nuclear bomb.
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Fear
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Are there mannequins?
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In the behind the scenes sense of things yes - the charred bodies are made by burning mannequins.
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Are there natural bodies of water?
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At the beginning, a pair of young people are parked in a car overlooking the sea.
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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Very very graphic, about 1 hour in. When the screen mentions the first symptoms of radiation, skip ahead until the next day.
1 hour and 4 minutes
1 hour and 4 minutes
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Is there defecation?
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There's also a quick clip during the first bomb montage of a man on the toilet.
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Does someone wet/soil themselves?
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A woman is shown soiling herself in the prelude to the bomb
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Does someone spit?
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Lots of spitting, either from dust/debris in the mouth or vomiting.
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Large-scale Violence
Are there 9/11 depictions?
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This film was made 17 years before 9/11, and no planes are shown crashing into buildings.
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
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The police are initially portrayed as useless, then progressively violent and fascistic. Lots of on screen police brutality.
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Is there incarceration?
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A large, improvised prison where they hold all criminals, and that is everyone who steals food.
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LGBTQ+
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Live Theatre
Is there smoke or haze?
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Large sections of the film take place in darkened and/or hazy conditions, as the latter half of the film tries to depict fallout and a nuclear winter.
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Loss
Is a priceless artifact destroyed?
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There is a scene where some paintings are being moved down to a cellar though I suspect that those eventually get destroyed in some fashion in the end.
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Medical
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Does someone have cancer?
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Ruth eventually dies from radiation-induced leukaemia.
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Is there a hospital scene?
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An overrun hospital is shown with several injured and hurt people walking through. The staff is overwhelmed from all the sick and injured people. Infections are shown, blood dripping from a rag being used on a bloody stump is shown, and although it isn't explicitly shown, a man's leg is cut off without anesthesia.
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Mental Health
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towards the end there are 3 hanged bodies, but only the legs are shown. no suicide is shown on screen but it is implied
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Does someone attempt suicide?
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Is there misophonia?
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Protect and Survive's infamous ending jingle.
The HANDEL System, part of the Four-Minute Warning, uses repetitive noises (loud beeping) and phrases ("Attack Warning RED").
Civil defense and aircraft scramble sirens.
An unknown authority, likely the Auxillary Government or remnant RAF, has a loudspeaker repeatedly saying "Return to your homes" and "Go back".
A good portion of the movie is screaming.
The HANDEL System, part of the Four-Minute Warning, uses repetitive noises (loud beeping) and phrases ("Attack Warning RED").
Civil defense and aircraft scramble sirens.
An unknown authority, likely the Auxillary Government or remnant RAF, has a loudspeaker repeatedly saying "Return to your homes" and "Go back".
A good portion of the movie is screaming.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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Not exactly but several character say they wish were dead due to the horrific conditions (post-nuclear war) that they are living with.
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Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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Ruth is in shock after the attack and barely speaks for the rest of the film.
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Ruth could be seen as dissociating after the bomb drops, such as when Jimmy's friend comes up to her and she seems to barely notice him.
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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Some of the side characters are trapped in an underground bunker as the exit has been destroyed.
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Natural Disasters
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Noxious
Are there flashing lights or images?
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Lights flash breifly during a short montage of the bomb's explosion
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Does a baby cry?
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Right after the first bomb, a lot of babies/infants start wailing off-screen.
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Is there screaming?
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Tons.
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Is there obscene language/gestures?
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The only notable one is "they f--king would be" in response to finding a packet of cheese and onion crisps, though this isn't very audible.
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Paranoia
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Pregnancy
Is a baby stillborn?
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It's heavily implied that the baby born at the end of the film is either stillborn or malformed.
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Does someone miscarry?
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A character is shown delivering a baby at the end. It's unknown what exactly is wrong with it as the film ends with a close up of the new mother's silent scream.
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Is there childbirth?
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Twice near the end
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Are there abortions?
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Only mentions of abortion such as Michael getting told off when he asks what abortion is.
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Prejudice
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Are there homophobic slurs?
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No. Though, the term "fag" is British slang for cigarettes, which could be jarring for unsuspecting American viewers.
So around the 1 hr 24 min mark when a man says, "I could murder a fag right now", he is not making a homophobic remark. The context becomes clearer when he then says he always used to have a fag after a meal.
So around the 1 hr 24 min mark when a man says, "I could murder a fag right now", he is not making a homophobic remark. The context becomes clearer when he then says he always used to have a fag after a meal.
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Race
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Relationships
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Religious
Is religion discussed?
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If we want to count the short church scene where Ruth's family were praying.
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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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At the beginning of the film. Not shown, but basically established Jimmy and Ruth had sex, since she later told him she was pregnant.
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Sexism
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Sickness
Is there dementia/Alzheimer's?
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Likely pandemic levels of CTE in-universe, but not depicted in the movie.
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Does someone have a chronic illness?
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Many people suffering the effects of radiation poisoning, cancers, etc.
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Social
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Is existentialism debated?
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The movie IS an existentialism.
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Is someone homeless?
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Many of the survivors are depicted as being essentially homeless or living in squalor in the aftermath of nuclear war.
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Spoiler
Does it have a sad ending?
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There is no happy ending. The UK - and modern society - has been obliterated.
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Vehicular
Does a car crash?
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During the RAF Finningley bombing a man crashes his car into a short brick wall after getting blinded by the flash.
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Violence
Is there blood/gore?
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Constant blood, gore and injury. Effects are low-budget but very realistic especially for the era.
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Is there gun violence?
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An unseen man shoots at teenagers who stole bread from them, killing one.
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Is there a nuclear explosion?
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Threads is a story about nuclear war.
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