A Clockwork Orange

Movie • 1971 • Drama  

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In a near-future Britain, young Alexander DeLarge and his pals get their kicks beating and raping anyone they please. When not destroying the lives of others, Alex swoons to the music of Beethoven. The state, eager to crack down on juvenile crime, gives an incarcerated Alex the option to undergo an invasive procedure that'll rob him of all personal agency. In a time when conscience is a commodity, can Alex change his tune?
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Does the dog die?
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gayle
this would go under other animals, not cat, dog or horse
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Abandonment
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Kinda, after Alex gets out of jail he discover his parents have rented his room to Joe. They refuse to kick Joe out and ask Alex to leave, giving him no help
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Is an animal abandoned?
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Abuse
Are there abusive parents?
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Is someone stalked?
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atthehuskinbee
There are break-ins, but no stalking is involved.
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It is implied that Alex's parents fear him and his violence
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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Is someone gaslighted?
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Is someone abused with a belt?
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Is a child abused?
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lalalink
Technically the main character is a child, but it depends which version or media you are using. In the novel, he is about fifteen, but in the movie he is supposedly older, possibly eighteen.
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Addiction
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CarrieRoth
They use milk laced with narcotics
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Is there addiction?
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CarrieRoth
There is an old man who is clearly drunk
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Animal
Were animals harmed in the making?
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Does a horse die?
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Does an animal die?
(besides a dog, cat or horse)
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BootNaggit
The main character's pet snake dies offscreen while he is away.
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Are animals abused?
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TheFlyingChairMHJ
yes but it isn't shown, only mentioned. it is the protagonist's pet snake
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Is an animal sad?
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Are rabbits harmed?
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Does a cat die?
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ZS55
In each shot that Alex is in with all the cats, not one cat has stress. Their body languages all say that their relaxed around the actors.
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Does a pet die?
144 supporters
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chialovescats
*SPOILER*

The protagonist's snake dies and it was pretty much his pet
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Does a dragon die?
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Are there spiders?
45 supporters
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mangohichew
im not sure why so many people said yes, ive watched several times and havent noticed any spiders or anything that looks spider like in form
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Are there alligators/crocodiles??
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Are there snakes?
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BootNaggit
The main character has a large pet snake that only shows up briefly at the beginning. It does not attack anyone.
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Are there sharks?
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Are there bugs?
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Assault
Does a woman get slapped?
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Is someone drugged?
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The main character is drugged for the Ludovico treatment
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Is there pedophilia?
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Pantalones
A character is held underwater by his former friends. He is nearly drowned in a trough in the middle of nowhere but does survive.
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Is rape mentioned?
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there are scenes when rape is implicit, one shown on screen. i don't think the word is used but still
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at the start, a homeless man is beaten up by the main character's gang, but survives. further, very graphic drowning scene by ex friends (now bullies) but no beating
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Is someone restrained?
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BootNaggit
There are multiple extended sexual assault scenes, including the opening of the movie, and one shortly after that. There is also a depiction of graphic sexual assault in the scene where the main character watches movies.
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Is someone's mouth covered?
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1
Is implicit after they undress the woman in the writer's house at the beginning of the movie and there is a explicit scene during the first Ludovico technique
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Bodily Harm
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areyouciarious
There is a scene while the main character is in prison that shows a man's throat being cut
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Are any hands damaged?
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Are there dislocations?
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Is there throat mutilation?
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jellybean
a character is briefly seen drowning
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Is there decapitation?
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Is there cannibalism?
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Is someone crushed to death?
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Is someone choked?
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Is someone burned alive?
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Is someone buried alive?
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Is there body horror?
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Is there amputation?
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areyouciarious
The actual act is not shown on screen
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Is there Achilles Tendon injury?
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Is there a hanging?
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LiamMcGreevy
During a scene where there are several short clips of unrelated violence, we see a woman in a dress being hung.
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Does someone asphyxiate?
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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0
In the end the protagonist jumps from a window and passes out, he wakes up what seem to be days after
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BootNaggit
A woman's skull is cracked (not shown graphically) and the main character's nose get's broken by a glass bottle smashed on his face.
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Does someone have a seizure?
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areyouciarious
A woman's head is crushed using a large bludgeoning object slammed down on her open mouth. I would assume teeth are damaged in the process. The act itself is not shown on screen.
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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Is someone tortured?
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BootNaggit
The main character is forced to watch movies of graphic violence, his eyes being forced open with clamps. He is also beaten and drowned.
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Does someone fall down stairs?
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realfrnds
No, but someone attempts to
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thomson
Particularly gruesome when the main character's eyes are forced to stay open by a mechanical contraption (which actually damaged the actor's corneas IRL).
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Is someone stabbed?
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Is there excessive gore?
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Children
Is an infant abducted?
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9
Does a kid die?
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Is a minor sexualized?
100 supporters
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SiRenfield
Minors under the age of 18 (in particular Alex is stated to be around 17) are put in numerous sexual situations albeit the actors were mostly in their twenties at the time
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Creepy Crawly
Are there bedbugs?
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Death
Does someone sacrifice themselves?
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Does a major character die?
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5
Does a non-human character die?
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Does someone die?
12 supporters
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The wife of one of alex's victims dies after what his gang did to her, but it's only mentioned, no dead person on screen
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Disability
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Is the r-slur used?
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Drugs/Alcohol
Does someone overdose?
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Family
Does a family member die?
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Does a parent die?
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4
Is a child's toy destroyed?
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18
Is someone kidnapped?
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Does someone cheat?
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21
Fear
Are there ghosts?
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Are there jump scares?
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Melody Gabrielle Reuter-Costa
i think that tub scenes count
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Are there natural bodies of water?
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Are there clowns?
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thomson
The droogs' uniforms, makeup and masks could be seen as clownish.
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Is someone possessed?
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Is trypophobic content shown?
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Are there razors?
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9
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0
At the very first scene in the club, also all the other club scenes
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
93 supporters
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Jozxyqk
No actual vomit but it’s extremely distressing when Alex gags and belches.
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Does someone wet/soil themselves?
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Is there farting?
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Is someone eaten?
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Is there on-screen pooping?
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5
Does someone spit?
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lalalink
While first entering the prison, an officer spits directly on the main character’s face after he is beaten by them.
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Is there audio gore?
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1
Large-scale Violence
Are there 9/11 depictions?
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
28 supporters
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18
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No, if anything this movie is very anti police, showing them in a very bad light as abusive.
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Is there incarceration?
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LGBTQ+
Are there transphobic slurs?
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5
Yes
0
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4
Is there deadnaming or birthnaming?
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4
Is there bisexual cheating?
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7
Is an LGBT+ person outed?
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Loss
Is a priceless artifact destroyed?
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Medical
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BlancheDuBois
The main character is strapped down with his eyes forced open and is forced to watch what is on the screen in order to cure him of his violent actions. (Aversion Therapy)
There are a lot of electrodes attached to his head and it overall is a unpleasant scene of torture.
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lalalink
When beginning the treatment “cure” the main character from acts of crime, the facility uses a needle, but it is not shown as it is inserted.
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SiRenfield
Okay admittedly this is in a prison (ie a regular correctional facility) than a mental hospital, but still experimental therapy involving restraints such as straitjackets are very much involved
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BootNaggit
The main character is briefly in a hospital bed.
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Is there menstruation?
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5
Does someone have cancer?
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1
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30
Mental Health
Does someone have a mental illness?
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8
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0
Does someone self harm?
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74 supporters
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18
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17
Is autism misrepresented?
29 supporters
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0
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5
Yes
24
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Pantalones
Alex and his droogs have anti-social, sociopathic tendencies and are EXTREMELY violent. They commit a pile of crimes including rape and assault.
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Is there D.I.D. misrepresentation?
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9
Is there autism specific abuse?
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1
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26
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Anonymous
Botched suicide by falling.
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Is reality unstable or unhinged?
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4
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0
Does someone have a meltdown?
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3
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1
Is there misophonia?
32 supporters
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16
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0
6
ValentinaVi
Noises coming from a character eating in the hospital.
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0
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atthehuskinbee
In the mental institution and towards the end of the movie, Alex panics when he hears Beethoven, which causes him to scream and thrash about.
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Is there ABA therapy?
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Yes
16
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Is there body dysphoria?
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8
Is there body dysmorphia?
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25
Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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20
Does someone have an eating disorder?
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realfrnds
No, but someone tries to
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Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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13
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Noxious
Are there underwater scenes?
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1
Are there sudden loud noises?
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4
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0
Is there shakey cam?
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Yes
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2
Does a baby cry?
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1
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12
Is there screaming?
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3
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0
Is there obscene language/gestures?
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9
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1
Are there flashing lights or images?
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0
Paranoia
Is someone watched without knowing?
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1
Yes
16
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4
Yes. The "kubrick stare" where the main character stares directly into the camera is almost the character looking directly at the viewer. The movie is also narrated by the main character.
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Pregnancy
Is a baby stillborn?
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9
Does someone miscarry?
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Yes
1
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25
Are there babies or unborn children?
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9
Is there childbirth?
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Yes
1
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21
Are there abortions?
1 supporters
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Yes
1
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24
Does a pregnant person die?
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Yes
1
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22
Prejudice
Are there homophobic slurs?
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Yes
2
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18
Yes
2
No
17
Are there usages of the n-word?
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mystedragon
there is no antisemitism, but nazis and a swastika are briefly shown on screen, so keep that in mind.
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
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1
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13
Does an LGBT person die?
31 supporters
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Yes
3
No
28
Are there fat jokes?
51 supporters
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Yes
1
No
20
Is there aphobia?
20 supporters
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Yes
0
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6
Is a minority is misrepresented?
23 supporters
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Yes
1
No
7
Does the black guy die first?
17 supporters
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Yes
1
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22
Is there hate speech?
29 supporters
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Yes
11
No
13
Race
Is there blackface?
32 supporters
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Yes
1
No
4
Relationships
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3
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8
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SiRenfield
The one infamous scene in the book is mercifully changed to a consensual encounter with two girls in Alex's age group, but admittedly it doesn't take away from the fact that a teenage gang still gang r*pes an adult woman
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Religious
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1
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SiRenfield
The prison chaplain tries to reform Alex via Bible study but it backfires as it causes Alex to imagine himself in particularly violent Bible stories
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Yes
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3
0
TheFlyingChairMHJ
mentioned pretty graphically by the prison chaplain during a sermon but not shown on screen
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Sex
Yes
18
No
1
0
clownish
practically somewhere every scene whether it's a object or attached to someone until (spoiler alert) he goes to jail
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Is there bestiality?
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Yes
1
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9
Does someone lose their virginity?
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1
No
2
Yes
15
No
1
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SiRenfield
The Droogs pretty much view all women as this. And to a lesser extent is somewhat male gaze-y in itself, to the point some might debate if we're supposed to enjoy these women being brutalized or not. The in-universe one is pretty undeniable though
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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83 supporters
Yes
5
No
25
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gayle
not shown, but so strongly implied that his mom did, and the priest lays him down in his underwear and grabs his crotch on Alexs' parent's bed.
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Sid
As well as the sexual assaults there’s a threesome that’s shown graphically but in fast forward
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Is there BDSM?
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Yes
1
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2
Sexism
0
Kinda, Joe belittles Alex after he stars crying in his parents house
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Sickness
Is someone terminally ill?
19 supporters
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Yes
0
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3
Does someone have a stroke?
9 supporters
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Yes
1
No
9
Does someone have a chronic illness?
1 supporters
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Yes
0
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6
Is there dementia/Alzheimer's?
1 supporters
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Yes
1
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8
Social
Are there fat suits?
30 supporters
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Yes
1
No
6
Yes
16
No
2
0
SiRenfield
The Droogs beat one to death early on in the film
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Is existentialism debated?
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1
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2
Are there anti-abortion themes?
31 supporters
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0
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5
Spoiler
Yes
1
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SiRenfield
...I mean what the hell is the wrong with you if you're showing this to a child? But still such matters aren't exactly discussed in the film
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Are there end credit scenes?
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3
Yes
28
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featherell
The ending varies depending on the version of the book you are reading (USA vs UK version) and the film has a different ending. However, there is a negative overall tone in most versions.
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Vehicular
Does a car honk or tires screech?
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0
Does a car crash?
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Yes
25
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0
Does a plane crash?
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1
No
28
Is someone hit by a car?
21 supporters
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0
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23
Violence
Does someone drown?
1 supporters
Yes
6
No
21
4
realfrnds
no one drowns, but there's a scene where someone is nearly drowned
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39
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1
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Anonymous
No dismemberment or anything, but some bloody violence is seen.
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Is there a nuclear explosion?
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1
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26
Is there gun violence?
1 supporters
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0
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