When Alita awakens with no memory of who she is in a future world she does not recognize, she is taken in by Ido, a compassionate doctor who realizes that somewhere in this abandoned cyborg shell is the heart and soul of a young woman with an extraordinary past.
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It is towards the middle of the movie. The little dog who Alita saves gets shot by the villain in the 'Hunter' bar. The death is not shown but a shot goes off and you can hear the whimper. Alita does use the dog's blood as marking on her face.
After Alita goes through the floor of a bar, she fights someone and all of her limbs (and her bottom half) are cut off. Multiple characters are beheaded throughout the movie.
There are some scenes of cybernetic dismemberment but not outright torture although near the end of the film there is a scene that is definitely a torture of sorts.
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A person's brain and eyes are seen in a jar although the person is still living and given this movie's premise, entirely possible to be put into a cybernetic body.
In a sense there is possession. The movie depicts cyborgs and advanced technology including the ability of one person to "possess" another temporarily. There are no ghosts however.
In the beginning, Alita tries an orange but with the skin and everything. She isn’t “sick” but she does spit it out into a napkin offscreen, no visible food exiting the body! :)
A young woman is in a wheelchair due to being paralyzed from the waist down, so her dad makes an entire robotic body with the intention of putting her head onto the body, instead of just making leg braces or cyborg legs. She dies before this can happen.
Sort of. The first death is the murder of an unnamed black woman who has no lines. Beyond that, many characters of various races are killed, including at least two prominent black characters.
Alita's brain and body are over 300 years old, but have been inactive most of that time, so she looks and acts the same age as her boyfriend.
Christoph Waltz is 14 years older than Jennifer Connelly, who plays his ex-wife.
Only the TINIEST amount when *SPOILERS* she gets her new body and it "morphs" into what she thinks her body looks like, and in doing so she grows (cybernetic, no skin) b*****s
It's not happy.... per se. More of a feeling of vengeance and the inevitable "a sequel is coming." The main character is doing well for herself, but she's still driven to get revenge on an act that was committed in just the previous scene.
SPOILER: At the end a character is implied to have had their organs separated from their (disposed) body, and their brain heart and eyes are shown still functioning. It's... It's rough.