Does the dog die?
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The Shape of Water
Movie • 2017 • Drama
ReportAn other-worldly story, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1962, where a mute janitor working at a lab falls in love with an amphibious man being held captive there and devises a plan to help him escape.
This movie contains 54 potentially triggering events.
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Anonymous
There are no dogs in The Shape Of Water.
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Abandonment
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Is a child abandoned by a parent?
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SiRenfield
The female lead’s backstory involves being found abandoned near the river as an infant. Although this is only described and not shown on screen
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Abuse
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Is someone stalked?
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CharlieCharlie
The antagonist of the film hunts down the antagonist once he learns her identity. He enters her home and breaks things - could be triggering.
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idk_if_helpful
The main antagonist continues to have sex with his wife even when she starts objecting
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Does the abused become the abuser?
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VinnythePoet
The main antagonist’s children are dismissed out of hand, but he never directs his anger toward them. Still, the coldness might be uncomfortable for some viewers
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Addiction
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idk_if_helpful
The main antagonist liberally uses painkillers
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Is there addiction?
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Berry
The main antagonist is constantly consuming painkillers after an accident with the fish man
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Animal
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A cat is killed. He is eaten by the amphibian
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Are animals abused?
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vermin
Without classifying the asset as human or not, a cat is consumed and beheaded.
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Is there a dead animal?
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idk_if_helpful
The fish creature eats a cat's head on-screen, then tosses the rest away
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Does a cat die?
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Todd Manning
Ahhh!!! If you’re a cat person once it gets to the scene where he gets out of the tub and the older man is asleep on the toilet - cover your eyes and ears for about 3 minutes.
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Does a pet die?
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Jwolf
A cat is eaten for food by the creature.
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Assault
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Is rape mentioned?
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rozandro
No, but it does depict the main antagonist of the film continuing sex with his wife after she starts objecting
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Is someone restrained?
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malovela
A very humanoid being is kept in chains, which includes him wearing a large metal ring around his neck.
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Corellon
The villain has sex with his wife that is initially very consensual, but when she starts to express discomfort, he covers her mouth with a grotesquely wounded and bloody hand and keeps going.
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SiRenfield
I mean arguably we do witness a marital rape in the sense that the wife tried to retract consent but the husband isn’t having any of it
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Bodily Harm
Is there shaving/cutting?
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Anonymous
No cutting that I noticed, but there are some scars that look like cut marks across the main character's neck that she received as a child.
The creature does accidentally scratch one of the characters when startled, causing claw marks across their arm.
The creature does accidentally scratch one of the characters when startled, causing claw marks across their arm.
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Are any hands damaged?
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pedanther
The main antagonist's hand is injured and doesn't get properly treated; it gets infected and its condition deteriorates dramatically over the course of the story. There's a more detailed description in the "finger/toe mutilation" item.
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Is there throat mutilation?
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BelleFiction
The sea creature slits the villains throat
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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The creature is seen gasping for oxygen several times in the film because his lungs only work out of water for a limited time
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Is there decapitation?
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the cat
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Is there amputation?
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a man loses his fingers and they are reattached
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Does someone break a bone?
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vermin
Y’all. If someone loses a finger, they had to break a bone in the process.
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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Anonymous
Oh my god there is so much finger mutilation.
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Is someone tortured?
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SEAGULLaahh
The fish dude gets tortured by the security chief and Elisa has to helplessly watch him suffer.
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Does someone fall down stairs?
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malovela
No. We do see people walking both up and down stairs.
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Is there eye mutilation?
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rotbrains
near the end a man gets shot in the face and his eye starts to bleed and kinda go upwards, nasty.
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Is there excessive gore?
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JadedUmbra
The wounds in this movie are... disturbingly realistically portrayed. One man is repeatedly shot and then, while still alive and begging, drug around by a bullet hole in his cheek. Akin to a fish on a hook.
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Children
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Does a kid die?
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goblinlovr
No children die but there are children present briefly in the movie. the main antagonist has a son. he has literal speaking lines.
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Creepy Crawly
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Death
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Does a major character die?
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pedanther
There's an element of ambiguity to what happens to one of the main characters during/after the climactic confrontation, but taken at face value the character apparently survives. A fairly significant supporting character does get killed.
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Disability
Is someone disabled played by able-bodied?
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SiRenfield
In the sense that Sally Hawkins is not mute and doesn’t have those throat scars I guess. Then again…
[SPOILERS] those scars are actually gils so grey area there
[SPOILERS] those scars are actually gils so grey area there
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Is the r-slur used?
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tasseomancer
Not specifically the r-word, but there is a lot of ableist language towards and about the non-verbal main character
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Drugs/Alcohol
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Family
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Does a parent die?
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Anonymous
Technically yes, as one character who possibly dies off-screen is a father.
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Is someone kidnapped?
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Crow75
The water creature was kidnapped by the military and brought to the facility.
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Does someone cheat?
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pocketbee
a man makes (harassing) sexual advances to a woman, while he's already married and has kids
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Fear
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Are there jump scares?
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Maureen Broderick Walters
Fairly mild jump scares
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Is there a shower scene?
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Mary Magpie
Quite a bit of nudity (mostly from main character) in this film. She is shown naked in a tub masturbating twice. She gets naked again and gets in the shower with the creature. She's also naked again with him in the bathroom shortly after.
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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Anonymous
Couple of times you think someone might be about to vomit, but they never do. I didn't notice anyone spitting, though I could be wrong.
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Is someone eaten?
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SiRenfield
No humans far as I can recall but Poor kitty :(
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Is there audio gore?
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CharlieCharlie
Yes, when the man removes his fingers.
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Large-scale Violence
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Law Enforcement
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LGBTQ+
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Is an LGBT+ person outed?
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pedanther
A character is not forcibly outed, but there is an uncomfortable scene where a gay character is rejected by somebody whose good opinion he values after voluntarily revealing his orientation.
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Loss
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Medical
Is electro-therapy used?
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Corellon
A cattle prod is used as torture, but no therapy is involved.
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Are needles/syringes used?
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Anonymous
At one point a security guard (minor character) is injected in the neck with a hypodermic needle.
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Mental Health
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Lachesis
Shouldn't we consider the scene where the bad guy torns his own rotten fingers out self harm?
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Does someone attempt suicide?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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malovela
The water being is kept in a small tank some of the time.
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Does someone die by suicide?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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Noxious
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Paranoia
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Pregnancy
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Prejudice
Are there homophobic slurs?
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CharlieCharlie
No slurs, but a character is homophobic to a gay man.
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
39 supporters
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pocketbee
ableist remarks against the main mute character, ableist fetishization from her boss. she is also shown singing (stereotype of disabled people becoming abled in their dreams/fantasies)
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Are there usages of the n-word?
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fluffy8uns
There is one scene where they say the word "n*gro" in television on what seems to be a news report. There are also several uncomfortable period-accurate racist scenes against black americans.
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pocketbee
a white bad guy uses a bad term for jewish people, and refers to anti-semitism in a pretty dismissive way
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Does an LGBT person die?
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CharlieCharlie
No, but this movie does show a homophobic scene. A gay man is told to leave a restaurant (this movie does take place in 1950's America).
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Does the black guy die first?
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CharlieCharlie
No black people die in this movie.
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Is there hate speech?
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pocketbee
black people thrown out of white spaces & belittled, anti-jewish remark, ableism, homophobia. and other racist comments.
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Race
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Relationships
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Religious
Is religion discussed?
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SiRenfield
The Amphibian was worshipped by the local indigenous population before he was discovered by the scientists. [MAJOR SPOILERS] and in fact the bad guy’s last words are “you are a god”
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Sex
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Is there bestiality?
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SiRenfield
I mean mostly yes but also no. This movie is kind of infamous for being a weird grey area on the Jack Harkness test since both characters are non-verbal but can still communicate via sign language (friendly reminder that the rules stipulate that communication doesn’t have to be exclusively verbal just so long as the non-human entity is sapient and capable of communication). Basically the entire movie being okay with you kind of depends on your tolerance towards Beauty and the Beast-type stories [MAJOR SPOILERS] also the ending opens up the possibility that Elisa may not even be human in the first place
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Does someone lose their virginity?
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SiRenfield
Virginity isn’t established with Eliza, all we really know about her sexual life at the start of the movie is that she makes self-pleasure part of her daily routine
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Is someone sexually objectified?
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Triggeredsushi
The villain makes nasty and uncomfortable sexual advances towards our hero in a scary scene.
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Are there incestuous relationships?
National Sexual Assault Hotline 800.656.4673
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Is there sexual content?
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Anonymous
There is nudity. There are two female masturbation scenes. There is a heterosexual s*x scene. Anda major plot is the consensual sexual/romantic relationship between the fish man and the female main character.
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Is there BDSM?
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SiRenfield
No but the bad guy is a strong advocate of traditional gender roles with women submissive to men and often engages in rather violent sex with his wife. No sane BDSMer would condone this guy obviously (especially as he completely disregards consent) but it could still make sone with this trigger uncomfortable
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Sexism
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Sickness
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Social
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Spoiler
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Does it have a sad ending?
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Anonymous
They end up together in the end
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Vehicular
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Does a car crash?
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Maureen Broderick Walters
A sideswipe to a parked car for humor
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Does a plane crash?
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malovela
No flying scenes.
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Violence
Does someone drown?
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Eric2
Someone is underwater for a good amount of time, they are definitely *not* drowning though and are in fact quite clearly having a nice time
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Is there blood/gore?
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azira
A primary source of gore is one of the characters having his fingers bitten off, reattached, and them subsequently rotting off throughout the film (in one scene, he rips them off and throws them at another character). In another scene, a character shoots another through the cheek and sticks his finger through it, pulling him up by the wound. Very squicky, not for the squeamish.
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Is there gun violence?
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CharlieCharlie
Yes at least 5 people are shot by the antagonist.
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