Nearly 10 years have passed since Sarah Connor was targeted for termination by a cyborg from the future. Now her son, John, the future leader of the resistance, is the target for a newer, more deadly terminator. Once again, the resistance has managed to send a protector back to attempt to save John and his mother Sarah.
This movie contains 60 potentially triggering events.
It's not would-be-romantic stalking, but both Terminators stalk John at the beginning and the T-1000 continues to pursue John & Sarah throughout the movie.
Sarah is institutionalized and diagnosed with schizophrenia because of her story about the terminator stuff. in her annual review she's forced to play along and pretend like she really was crazy all along.
There is no physical abuse of a child in this movie. Telling a disrespectful, unruly teenager to clean their room is not abuse. The boy not liking his foster parents is not abuse. There's no mention of any abuse on their part, nor is any seen. The boy calling them "dicks" doesn't confirm they are abusive. It just confirms he's a resentful teenager.
At most you could argue there's emotional neglect on the part of the adoptive parents and biological mother. That's it.
Not technically torture but in the last fight scene the T-1000 stabs her in the arm and threatens to hurt her/stab her eye if she doesn't call for her son
Miles Dyson dies when he's shot by the police then sacrifices himself to blow up the laboratory. Earlier it looks like Sarah is about to shoot him in front of his family and it's very emotional and difficult to watch
Not in a prison, but Sarah is an involuntary long-term inmate in the high security wing of a mental institution, which involves similar kinds of traumatic experiences.
Whether Sarah is actually mentally ill or not could be debated, but the scenes of her in the mental hospital definitely merit a trigger warning for this category.
To the comment about the T-1000 shapshifting:
Body dysmorphia disorder (BDD) is a body-image disorder characterized by persistent and intrusive preoccupations with an imagined or slight defect in one's appearance.
This means that the afflicted person cannot stop thinking negatively about their appearance, or aspects of it.
It has nothing to do with shapeshifting appearances.
It's not intense, but there's a moment in the climax where John is being pushed away from his mother on an industrial conveyor with no room to escape. If a viewer made it through the industrial press scene in T1 without trouble, this one won't be a problem.
Yes, very much so. A main character repeatedly experiences flashbacks, traumatic memories, and nightmares from a past trauma as well as knowledge of traumatic, future events. This shapes the petson's motivations and behavior.
When Sarah, John and the terminator are leaving the mental hospital and are in the elevator. The lights in the cieling break and start blinking. It is quite intense and I found it hard to watch.
No. No one is known to be pregnant, much less shown to die while pregnant in this movie. Considering obscure possibilities is not the purpose of these trigger warnings. It's about what's actually shown or directly implied in the movie.
the mental health staff is portrayed negatively and as generally unhelpful. they are rude and mistreat patients, saying things that aren’t necessarily with ableist language but could be triggering. other than that i don’t think there’s any.
In the very beginning, when the two cyborgs are transported to present day, they arrive without any clothing, but you only get a brief glimpse of one's bare buttocks.
Drowning is inhaling liquid into the lungs, which disrupts gas exchange, resulting in death. No one drowns in this movie. Two cyborgs are melted in a vat of molten steel. They don't drown. They physically can't drown.
Not super gory, however, people do get shot, and punched. There is a scene where the main character, (a cyborg-robot being) has a little portion of his head open, with a bit of blood but all of the insides are robotic. There's another scene where he is cuts around his arm on the skin and tears it off, revealing a robotic arm.