Does the dog die?
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Downsizing
Movie • 2017 • Comedy
ReportA kindly occupational therapist undergoes a new procedure to be shrunken to four inches tall so that he and his wife can help save the planet and afford a nice lifestyle at the same time.
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A dog is not a mouse. There is another section for other animals, besides dogs, cats, and horses.
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Were animals harmed in the making?
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May trigger animal lovers in the beginning scene with the lab test on a rat/mouse, but no animals were harmed otherwise.
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Does a woman get slapped?
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Female lead is religious, mentions Jesus, and has a bible.
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Is there domestic violence?
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Does the abused become the abuser?
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Silod
We see a lab rat injected with an experimental serum at the start of the film. Later on, the male protagonist injects his ailing mother with medication. Patients preparing to undergo the downsizing procedure are hooked up to IV's and given anaesthetics and downsizing serum intravenously. The male protagonist attends a party where people are drinking and taking recreational drugs. He accepts a pill, which is transferred to him via French kiss and which turns out to be a hallucinogenic. We also see him take a hit of marijuana. He eventually blacks out and awakens on the floor the next morning. The female protagonist regularly takes expired prescription medications from her clients. We see the protagonists select one of these to treat a woman who is dying of cancer. Because the medication is expired, they give her twice the initially suggested dosage. The female protagonist later states that this dosage may have been too high and caused the woman's death.
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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The male protagonist attends a party where people are drinking and taking recreational drugs. Drunkenness is not emphasized, but the host seems to be hungover in the morning. Use your discretion.
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Silod
At the very start of the film, we see a lab rat being placed in a large jar with a cotton swab. When we see the rat again, it is deceased. Be advised that an actual dead rat was acquired from a taxidermist for use in filming. It is not a CG animal.
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Are animals abused?
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This may depend on your definition; lab testing with rats is depicted at the start of the film.
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Is there a dead animal?
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spirochaete
There's a shot of a dead rat right at the start. In the context of the story, it was possibly just supposed to have been knocked unconscious, but they definitely used a dead rat in the making.
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Are there spiders?
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I am not aware of a spider being depicted. If I'm wrong, maybe someone else could provide context?
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Are there bugs?
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Gigantic (relatively) CG butterflies and dragonfly shown briefly during the Norway segment. The female protagonist has a penchant for butterflies and during a scene in her apartment, the male protagonist points out that many of her belongings depict butterflies.
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Is someone drugged?
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frankencanon
A man is pressured into doing drugs at a party. Additionally, many people are drugged in preparation for surgery.
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There is a non-consensual kiss given to a person who is asleep. When that person is awoken by the kiss, it continues consensually. For me, it came out of left field and made me uncomfortable.
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Bodily Harm
Is there shaving/cutting?
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Prior to undergoing the downsizing procedure, patients' heads are shaved with electric razors, including their eyebrows. We see a number of people having their heads shaved and, after being put to sleep with IV drips, the nurses proceed to remove the patients' hospital gowns and shave their body hair, as well.
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Is there amputation?
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One of main characters has an amputation below the knee because of a severe leg infection. The amputation isn't shown.
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Does a head get squashed?
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It may be worth noting that the female protagonist tells of how someone she knew died during the downsizing procedure because his dental fillings weren't removed. She explicitly states that his head effectively exploded.
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Does someone become unconscious?
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The protagonist and many others undergo an operation and are given anesthesia beforehand to put them under.
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Are any teeth damaged?
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Technically, yes. The downsizing procedure only works on organic tissue, so all patients are shown in dentist chairs, having their fillings removed. This includes a close-up of fillings and false teeth being discarded into a surgical tray. The patients are unconscious for this. Likewise, we see them receiving new fillings after being downsized.
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Death
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Does someone die?
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frankencanon
Two minor characters who were sick die off-screen.
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Disability
Is someone disabled played by able-bodied?
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An amputee is played by someone who does not actually have an amputated leg.
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Does someone overdose?
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It's not shown but an ill character is given too large a dose of pain medication and is later stated to have died soon after, possibly from being given too many pills at once and overdosing.
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Does a family member die?
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frankencanon
Protagonist's sick mother is shown prior to a timeskip but not after and is presumed to have died.
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Does a parent die?
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Protagonist's sick mother is shown prior to a timeskip but not after and is presumed to have died.
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Is someone kidnapped?
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No one is kidnapped during the film, but the female protagonist is the lone survivor of a group who were abducted and forcibly downsized by their government, then shipped overseas in a television box.
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Is there a shower scene?
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There is also a scene of a woman in a bathtub, but it is staged and nothing below her shoulders is visible.
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Not exactly, but several people are shown getting their heads, eyebrows, legs, etc all shaved with clippers.
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Does someone vomit?
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The main character tries to make himself vomit after ingesting drugs. He doesn't actually vomit, but he makes vomit-sounds and it was triggering for me, so.
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Does someone spit?
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Shortly after accepting an unnamed hallucinogenic drug, the male protagonist regrets his decision and attempts to self-induce vomiting. We see him repeatedly stick his finger down his throat, gag, and spit into a dirty toilet, but he doesn't manage to make himself throw up.
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LGBTQ+
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frankencanon
Not example a trans slur, but an outdated term for intersex people is used in a derogatory manner.
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Are needles/syringes used?
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We see a deceased lab rat get injected with an experimental serum at the start of the film. We also see the male protagonist preparing to inject his mother with medication. Later on, we see a close-up of the full process of the male protagonist being hooked up to an IV and an anaesthetic and the downsizing serum being injected into the IV stream.
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Is there a hospital scene?
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The facility at which the downsizing procedure is performed resembles a hospital. Depiction of gurneys, hospital beds, IV's, needles/syringes/injections, hospital gowns, and nurses.
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Does someone have cancer?
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The female protagonist tells the male protagonist that a woman she is caring for has stomach cancer and will soon die. He speaks with the woman in Spanish and helps decide which pain medicine to give her. When we revisit the female protagonist's apartment, the woman is gone and she informs the male protagonist that she died and implies that it may actually have been because they gave her too high a dosage of painkillers.
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Does someone attempt suicide?
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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Is there body dysmorphia?
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Body dysmorphia involves obsessive focus on a physical flaw, which may be minor or imagined. The male protagonist expresses regret over downsizing because it led to his divorce. This is not body dysmorphia.
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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There are two tunnel scenes.
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Does someone die by suicide?
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Is there obscene language/gestures?
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frankencanon
"Fuck" is said a lot, specifically in reference to sex.
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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Some strobe effects are used during the party segment.
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A derogatory term for intersex people is used.
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Not a specific person, but while talking about another character, someone says “he has sex with men, women, hermaphrodites” which is an outdated term.
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Are there fat jokes?
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A man jokes that his wife wants him to downsize in order to lose weight. A nurse/worker at the downsizing facility remarks that there are "a lot of fatties" in the incoming group of patients.
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Is a minority is misrepresented?
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Vietnamese character's accent appears atrocious to some viewers, but it turns out that it was a natural one.
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Is there hate speech?
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A fictional minority, the miniaturized people, are regarded by one person as unworthy of having voting rights.
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Sex
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frankencanon
1. There's a slideshow presentation on an experimental operation that shows before and after photos of the human subjects nude.
2. The patients are also shown nude during the actual operation itself.
2. The patients are also shown nude during the actual operation itself.
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Is there bestiality?
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No, but a character is briefly mentioned as willing to have sex with anyone/anything and the speaker lists animals but it is assumed to be intended as a joke.
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Is there sexual content?
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French kissing, an implied sex scene, and some explicit dialogue regarding sex. There is also some nudity, including full-frontal male and female nudity.
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Does it have a sad ending?
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Yes and no; the protagonist gets his happy ending but humanity is doomed to eventually be *mostly* wiped out in a mass extinction event, but some will survive and humanity is predicted to eventually recover as it's done before.
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Is there blood/gore?
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Very minimal blood. The female lead was the lone survivor of a group who were abducted and forcibly downsized by their government, then shipped overseas in a television box. We briefly see the box on a TV news report. Its lower corner is stained brownish-red and contains a number of puncture holes. The details of how this happened are not elaborated upon.
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