the main character’s sister’s dog Quicky is put down but that part is only mentioned not shown. the main character is later seen dissecting Quicky during class. the dog’s body is shown several times after that, often bloody and cut open. scenes to skip are when she’s putting the lab coat on her roommate (54 minutes in) as dozens of dead dogs are shown and then quite graphically dissected/cut into and then Quicky’s body is shown again when there’s a shot of him under the white cloth (58 minutes in), and the white cloth is pulled off.
I don't believe a fictional horse is killed on screen, even if the body appears somewhere. Also, in the sedated horse scene, the horse is alive and in professional care, and the scene was filmed during an already scheduled procedure.
Multiple dead/dissected animals shown throughout the film as it is set in veterinary school. Mostly cows. Characters are forced to eat raw rabbit kidneys.
No abuse, but veterinary procedures are shown which may be upsetting to some: a tranquillised horse is incubated and suspended upside down; a student puts her arm up a cow’s anus.
Dead animals for the students to practice on, the movie taking place in a veterinary school. We also see dead animals preserved in jars around the beginning of the movie.
There is a scene early on where veterinary students discuss the plausibility of AIDS being passed between humans and other primates. The main character is disgusted and the idea and claims that violated animals suffer as much as violated humans
Main character and background male character are forced to make out, she is visibly uncomfortable when the guy touches her. A creepy random man touches a guy's ear while talking to him at night on a parking lot, without his consent and for several minutes. Main character gets drunk at a party and tries to kiss several people without their consent, but doesn't go any further when rejected. Also the first really long conversation is about comparing rape on monkeys to rape on women.
There is a scene where a character says "no" a couple times during sex, but this is in the context of the other participant trying to bite his shoulder. Later this person expresses regret about the sexual encounter, but never claims it was unconsensual
The film is about a family who suffer from a condition causing them to crave human flesh. Justine eats a severed finger, injures a man by biting off part of his lip and bites her sister during a fight. Alex deliberately causes an accident so that she can eat the casualty’s flesh. A man is shown with part of his leg missing, presumably from cannibalism.
Depends on definition. Not a slash or human guts fest. But lots of animal and medical setting guts, and the few human gore scenes are framed emotionally intensely.
Towards the end of the film, Justine is in bed with another character when she pulls down her duvet to reveal that he is dead, with a gory injury. This is accompanied by loud, unexpected music.
There are two shower scenes (one with the protagonist, one with her sister), in which the characters clean up paint or blood. There is female nudity, but it is not sexualized.
A character’s sister tells her to try peeing while standing up, and she gets it on her pants, which are pulled down. She’s not extremely upset and the wet pants aren’t graphically shown
There is also a scene where a character leaves a hospital on a wheelchair. Her family is waiting for her, and there is a brief talk outside of the accident & emergency unit.
while not a direct portrayal of dissociation, some scenes feel dissociative, such as a scene where the main character witnesses the aftermath of a car accident
The scene under the white sheet (see "claustrophobic scene" category) causes extreme anxiety/panic to the character and can be in itself a metaphor for an anxiety/panic attack.
The movie has been interpreted by some as a metaphor for an eating disorder; a character is seen binging throughout the movie binging, engaging in pica, and purging hair. A character is forced to eat meat against her will.
Although it seems so. A character is seen twice jumping in front of a car and we don't know their status for a few seconds, but they're still alive and the goal wasn't to commit suicide.
There's a scene at about 1 hour in (for 2 minutes) where a character is looking directly into a mirror - it's filmed in such a way that it looks like the character is looking at the viewer, so it might be slightly triggering
In addition, though the character has sex, it's treated the same way as a straight person experimenting with gay sex. The character's sexuality is never doubted or "fixed" and he expresses discomfort with their having sex after the fact
Also there is a scene that mentions bestiality in the context of a discussion between students on whether or not AIDS can be passed between humans and other primates. A character voices her disgust and is lead into comparing sexually abused animals to sexually abused women
The film is very sexually driven. Justine walks in on her roommate receiving oral sex and moaning. Discussion of losing virginity, BDSM and how to be ‘sexy’. Alex waxes Justine’s genitals (only the pubic hair is shown), during which a dog licks her but is pushed away. In one scene, Justine is covered in blue paint and pushed into a room with a man covered in yellow paint, told not to leave ‘until you’re both green’. The man gropes and kisses Justine while she is clearly uncomfortable. While questioning his sexuality, a man watches porn and masturbates. Rough sex scene where Justine’s partner is not comfortable with her biting him. Non-sexual female nudity.
Characters are soaked with blood as part of a college initiation. Dead animals dissected. Graphic injuries - blood splatters and head wounds are shown in the aftermath of a car crash; a bloody severed finger is given a lot of screen time; Justine bites her own wrist hard enough to draw blood; gory facial wounds from a fight. Most graphically, a man is stabbed in the back with a ski pole and his leg is partially eaten (the act itself isn’t shown, but we see the gory aftermath and the blood on the killer’s face)