The Piano Teacher
Movie • 2001 • Drama
ReportErika Kohut, a sexually repressed piano teacher living with her domineering mother, meets a young man who starts romantically pursuing her.
This movie contains 38 potentially triggering events.
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burntheworm
erika's mother destroys her dresses and emotionally abuses her
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The daughter (40+) assaults her mother (60+)
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Does the abused become the abuser?
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burntheworm
erika slaps her mother as stated, and walter slaps erika later in the movie
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Is rape mentioned?
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milosfish
(SPOILERS) Erika is sexually assaulted at the end of the film.
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Maybe the most triggering SA I’ve seen on screen.
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Are any hands damaged?
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burntheworm
a student puts her hand into a coat pocket full of crushed glass and her hand is permanently disfigured.
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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The main character cuts her own crotch with a razorblade
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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a young girl's hand is mutilated with broken glass
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Is someone stabbed?
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Unhinged.but.handsome
She stabbed herself in the chest. But not deep. It wasn't fatal
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Family
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burntheworm
no, but erika's father is dead at the start of the movie.
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the main character cuts herself with a razor
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Gross
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ycats33
V**t Indiscretion Shot: Erika's fellatio on Walter ends with her p**ng on the ground.
sorry not sure when
sorry not sure when
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Is there a mental institution scene?
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burntheworm
no, but they are mentioned. erika's father is said to have died in one, and there is talk of getting her hospitalized.
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Does someone attempt suicide?
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Is someone watched without knowing?
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erika stalks walter and often watches characters without their knowledge. walter later tells erika that he watched her through her window and masturbated.
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yes, but not a pedophilic one. the main plot is about a woman in her 40s courting a college student.
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Erika forcefully kisses and gropes her mother. This happens before the SA by Walter.
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