Brought back to life by an unorthodox scientist, a young woman runs off with a lawyer on a whirlwind adventure across the continents. Free from the prejudices of her times, she grows steadfast in her purpose to stand for equality and liberation.
Godwin Baxter follows in his mad scientist father's footsteps. He describes being brutally mutilated by his father but then also goes on to experiment on animals and people.
Yes. An adult character recalls and describes his experiences of childhood abuse nominally for the sake of scientific research, including serious disabling and disfiguring injuries to the face, hands, GI system, and genitals. (Other characters react with shock and horror at this treatment.)
The doctor describes his childhood abuse in detail. I would also argue that the main character is a child and withstands things no child should. Additionally, two tweens are made to watch their father have sex as a demonstration.
The main plot of the film is a toddler whose brain has been implanted in an adult woman’s body having a lot of sex with multiple men and one woman. The sex is not brutal and she always appears as willing as she is cognitively able to be, but it is definitely making spectacle out of her vulnerability
Godwin not only forgives his father for experimenting on him and maiming him, but seems proud of his father's dubious contributions to science and anatomy.
Bella also seems to genuinely love "God" even after finding out he did some very unethical surgery on her.
In the first part of the movie, when God & McCandles take Bella out into the world, McCandles shows her a frog and then Bella squishes it. It looks fake, but is still rather upsetting.
In another part of the movie, when Bella is on a ship, she walks out of her room and finds one of the sailors strangling a seagull because it pooped on him. You see him from behind, but you can hear him snap it's neck, and then he holds it's dead body.
Animals are shown having been surgically attached to other parts of animals, for example a pig's head attached to a chicken's body. It isn't bloody/graphic, but it can be visually disturbing.
I’ll provide the aforementioned major spoilers: The main plot of the film is a toddler whose brain has been implanted in an adult woman’s body having a lot of sex with multiple men and one woman. People are openly aroused by her childlike qualities. One man explicitly states he finds her less attractive once she starts acting more mature
The main plot of the film is a toddler whose brain has been implanted in an adult woman’s body having a lot of sex with multiple men and one woman. She is enthusiastic and often initiating but consistently childlike. Later in the movie, she and other women engage in sex work. She is seemingly willing but seems mildly distressed at times. All this happens graphically onscreen. There are no images of her resisting, saying no, or looking frightened
Duncan beats up one guy at the dance hall for looking at Bella, he tries to throw a woman off a boat, and I’m sure there’s more things in that vein I’m forgetting. They’re never brutal, moreso just a bizarre, over the top depiction of his uncontrollable rage.
A person with a stunted brain experiences sexual touching from a man before she understands what it is. She enjoys it though. But it feels predatory as all get out.
One of main characters is disfigured as a result of childhood abuse that he speaks about easily (as though he is untraumatised.) He describes his father purposely injuring his thumbs which are now visibly badly scared and disfigured. The story is told as a result of other main character pointing out that his thumbs are different.
Someone has a prostetic arm with a crochet we see him for like 5 secondes he isn't an important caracther but we do mention him a couple of minutes After his apparence
First person account of childhood abuse in an analytical way which includes being branded on the genitals and being made a eunuch. The discription goes no further in the movie
Willem Dafoe plays a man with extensive scarring and many disabilities, but these disabilities are fantasy in nature and not something any actor (or human) would have (such as various missing essential organs replaced with fantastical machines)
Bella is due to marry Max but runs off with Duncan. Bella later has sex with several other men, and at least one woman, while still being at least somewhat entangled with Duncan.
Multiple times. There is discussion of past kidnapping, and the main character is frequently held places against her will, though it’s usually played for laughs and adventure
No, but the sex scenes are very sudden and alarming in a sense. But no actual jumpscares meant to scare you, and this is coming from someone who is scared of literally everything.
While technically the main character has sex with multiple men and women while engaged to another man, there are very spoilery extenuating circumstances that make me hesitant to call it cheating
TECHNICALLY sort of yes as one character is *spoilers*
In the body of someone who is dead, and an old acquaintance calls her by her original, now dead, name. However there is no dead/birth naming of a trans character
For the comment above, in that scene, she is sat by a small box of paint tubes that may be hard to spot. It is clearly intended to evoke blood but it IS actually paint.
I do not have misophonia, but I found this pretty aurally challenging. Lots of nasty wet surgery sounds. And a character who regularly burps a gross bubble.
The whole film is honestly just unhinged. The film's universe is different to our own and the severity of this changes throughout but there is a constant "unhinged"/"weird' feeling to the film
In the first part of the movie Godwin says Bella has a mental illness, but it's more that she literally has the brain of a child. But bella before she died she were depressed.
Who the heck is saying no. A women is kept in a trunk, and prior to that is locked in a house for essentially her entire life. We see her struggling against locked doors.
As above. There are no mentions of autism and actually knowing the story, the character isn't even technically mentally disabled. However, I'm autistic and found some depictions bordering similarity of when non autistic actors play autistic characters.
While the main character is supposed to be a baby (later a child) in an adult woman’s body, not an autistic woman, many of her behaviors are reminiscent of bad, stereotypical representations of autism.
No but when one character has a mental breakdown he suffers from delusions that another character is the devil/sent from god to punish him for his sins and tenfold etc
The film centers on Bella’s struggle for autonomy amongst sexualization, particularly from Duncan (who wants to use her for sex and then leave her), the brothel owner (who encourages her to use her body for sex work and to normalize a few problematic things, and SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER the final boss (who wants to remove her clit and then impregnate her). She fights back against the former and latter, and for the middle one, she finds empowerment in sex work. People have mixed feelings on whether this movie does a good job handling that subplot.
I feel like this is ambiguous. Technically Bella was not a virgin, but she does not remember her previous life. She feels as though she’s experiencing sex for the first time, if that counts.
One of the major themes of the film is discovering sexuality. There are frequent sequences in the film exploring different facets of sex, and it’s shown graphically. Sex is also discussed pervasively, with very graphic terms used. The film was rated R for "strong and pervasive sexual content".
I wouldn't say Bella is making fun of man for crying more that she is confused as to why he is upset and doesn't know how to react to it. I wouldn't say it's specific to him being a man, more context as to why he's crying. But it could come across that way.
Harry is a cynic who argues that human nature is evil and can't be improved. A character Bella meets in Paris is a socialist and argues the opposite, that humanity should always strive for improvement. Since Bella is basically a "blank slate" the whole movie is about her being shaped and trying to understand herself and the world.
In the later half of the movie, someone is shot in the foot, but you see it coming. It happens quickly after the protagonist throws a drink in the face of the general.