Audition

Movie • 1999 • Horror  

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Seven years after the death of his wife, company executive Aoyama is invited to sit in on auditions for an actress. Leafing through the resumés in advance, his eye is caught by Yamazaki Asami, a striking young woman with ballet training.
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Does the dog die?
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ayestaci
It happens at 1 hr 33 mins for anyone looking for a timestamp.
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Abandonment
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A lot of abuses, but nobody abandons someone.
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When the main character’s parents divorce, she is sent to live with her uncle and abusive aunt
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Is an animal abandoned?
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Abuse
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sjamie98
Abuse is a massive plot focus of the film. Asami is shown being burnt on the inner thigh by a hot steel rod multiple times throughout the film.
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Is someone stalked?
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Both characters follow up on each other & watch/ inquire about each other without the other's knowledge or consent. You mostly see this from Aoyami's perspective
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FatalDeviation
Asami's family abused her as a child.
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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NicoleMay
This is the main focus of the film
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NicoleMay
The main character dates somebody who is entirely disingenuous about her entire life and personality in order to trap him
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Is someone abused with a belt?
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Is a child abused?
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Rokka666
a character explains (in a fair amount of detail) the abuse that someone put them through; various scenes/memories are shown that give an idea of what happened without being fully-graphic in specific moments
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Addiction
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FatalDeviation
No but the main character is drugged many times throughout the film which causes him to collapse and blackout memories.
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Is there addiction?
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FatalDeviation
The main character drinks alcohol throughout the film but not in a harmful way.
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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)
155 supporters
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movieluvrrr
the question was does an animal die, and yes an animal does die. i dont know why people are voting no 😭 the dogs murdered head is shown after
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Are animals abused?
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The dog's mangled corpse is shown
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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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Does a pet die?
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NicoleMay
The family pet is murdered and the corpse is shown
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Does a dragon die?
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Are there spiders?
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Are there alligators/crocodiles??
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Are there snakes?
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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?
27 supporters
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NicoleMay
As a prelude to his torture, a character’s drink is spiked with something that paralyses him
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Is there pedophilia?
109 supporters
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NicoleMay
A character’s backstory revolves around them being molested as a child
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Is someone held under water?
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Is rape mentioned?
79 supporters
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movieluvrrr
rape is not mentioned, but there is a scene where a girl is forcefully trying to have sex with the guy and it scared me
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Is someone beaten up by a bully?
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Yes, via a paralyzing drug and another scene of a person trapped inside a canvas bag.
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FatalDeviation
Related to the child and ballet instructor, see my comment above for details.
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Is someone's mouth covered?
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Bodily Harm
Yes
49
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FatalDeviation
A character references self-harm during the audition scene.
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movieluvrrr
there are scenes revolving around fingers being chopped off
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No dislocation, but there are dismemberments.
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movieluvrrr
a mans neck is slit by a wire, chopping off his head
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HorrificHermione
A man is strangled and eventually decapitated with razor wire.
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NicoleMay
Someone’s head is graphically shown being decapitated with razor wire
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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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StormyTaylor
someone does have something wrapped around their neck, but not to strangle
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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?
25 supporters
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FatalDeviation
Multiple characters have had their body parts amputated. This mostly happens off-screen but if you are sensitive to amputation, seriously give this movie a pass. The character's amputated body parts are highlighted many times and there is a torture scene which features amputation.
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Does a head get squashed?
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StormyTaylor
in one of the most famous scenes from the movie, a character's foot is severed from the back
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Is there a hanging?
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Does someone asphyxiate?
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There is a scene where a character has her legs spread and was burned on her inner thigh. No genital happens but it looks like it may.
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Does someone become unconscious?
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HorrificHermione
A noticeably broken neck is shown, and there are a couple occurrences of cutting bone.
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no seizures, but during the torture a man's hand seems to flop and shake involuntarily in a pretty disturbing way
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Are any teeth damaged?
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Yes
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FatalDeviation
Yes, a lot. Two characters have their fingers removed (both off-screen). One character's (now healed) hand is shown, this happens as the main character is having a dream about being at Asami's house (just after collapsing in his house). This is quite a drawn-out scene and there are multiple shots of his hand up-close.
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Is someone tortured?
76 supporters
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FatalDeviation
It's the entire theme of the film.
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sjamie98
Asami falls down a flight of stairs in the climax of the film.
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TheSweetestCaroline
Someone is kicked down the stairs and appears to have broken her neck but her fate is left open ended.
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You never see needle go into eyeball, but you see a POV of her inserting needles near eyes and it is sloooow and the sound is gross lol.

From then to the end you see many many shots of him with his eyes closed and needles sticking out of his eyelids and under eye area. He eventually opens them but still had needles above & below. It is intense & visceral but you do not see needle into eyeball. Hope this helps!
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Is someone stabbed?
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TheSweetestCaroline
Depends on your tolerance for gore and your definition of “excessive” but she does decapitate someone and amputate many body parts with what appears to be a sort of piano wire. A lot of it is off screen and in my opinion they aren’t gratuitous with it so it’s really your own tolerance of that particular act and the sounds more than anything.
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Children
Is an infant abducted?
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Does a kid die?
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JohnCena
The main characters teenage son is threatened, but is unharmed.
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Is a minor sexualized?
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Creepy Crawly
Are there bedbugs?
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Death
Does someone sacrifice themselves?
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Yes
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sjamie98
Asami is kicked down a flight of stairs by Shigehiko and ultimately dies.
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3
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NicoleMay
The family dog is murdered
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Does someone die?
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Disability
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NicoleMay
An able bodied actor plays a wheelchair bound character with mutilated feet
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Is the r-slur used?
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11
Drugs/Alcohol
Does someone overdose?
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Family
Yes
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NicoleMay
The main character’s wife
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Does a parent die?
23 supporters
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Nora Bartel
A mother dies at the start of the movie.
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Is a child's toy destroyed?
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31
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FatalDeviation
A character is being held in another character's apartment against their will.
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Does someone cheat?
18 supporters
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No, but there is a warning not to cheat from a character, they consider loving anybody else, including family, to be cheating and decide to punish.
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Fear
Are there ghosts?
9 supporters
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2
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25
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TheSweetestCaroline
In a dream/drugged state the main character speaks to his dead wife. Not a ghost per se and not meant to be scary.
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FatalDeviation
There is one as the main character visits Asami's workplace.
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Is there a shower scene?
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31
Are there natural bodies of water?
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Are there clowns?
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Is someone possessed?
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Is trypophobic content shown?
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7
Are there razors?
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Are there mannequins?
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
92 supporters
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I'm surprised this section isn't loaded with comments and warnings, because it gets worse than mentioned below: after the woman v***** - which she does into a dog bowl - she makes the man eat it.

To cushion that, however, the also below-mentioned comment about it being real has been proven false (not calling out the person who commented for not telling the truth, it IS on imdb, but I did some digging because it bothered me so much, lol). On the audio commentary, the director makes this statement and then laughs it off as being a joke about how far people go with method acting.
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Does someone wet/soil themselves?
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Is there farting?
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8
Is someone eaten?
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9
Is there on-screen pooping?
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9
Does someone spit?
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Yes
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0
Is there audio gore?
40 supporters
Yes
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0
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FatalDeviation
It is a huge feature of this film.
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Large-scale Violence
Are there 9/11 depictions?
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13
Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
27 supporters
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0
No
19
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NicoleMay
The police are called at the end but no cops appear in the film
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Is there incarceration?
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6
LGBTQ+
Are there transphobic slurs?
46 supporters
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0
No
11
Yes
0
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9
Is there deadnaming or birthnaming?
33 supporters
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11
Is there bisexual cheating?
23 supporters
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11
Is an LGBT+ person outed?
23 supporters
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8
Loss
Is a priceless artifact destroyed?
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Medical
Is electro-therapy used?
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Yes
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0
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Anonymous
syringes used as well as acupuncture needles
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TheSweetestCaroline
A minor character mentions very briefly she was put in a mental institution for self harm. Her scene is maybe 15 seconds.
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Yes
38
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2
1
FatalDeviation
At the very beginning of the film.
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Is there menstruation?
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6
Yes
31
No
2
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HorrorFilmJunki
The opening scene it seems the mother passes from cancer
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Mental Health
Does someone have a mental illness?
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Yes
8
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0
Yes
36
No
4
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roughentumble
It's extremely brief, but in the montage of auditioning women, we're shown one woman pointing to her wrist and describing scars there. She goes on to mention that she needed to be institutionalized because of her self harm. It's very short, a "blink and you'll miss it" clip, but it is there.
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Is autism misrepresented?
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10
Yes
17
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1
An abused girl takes out her trauma violently on others. This is the basic plot of theovie lol.
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NicoleMay
A character dissociates and has a series of visions and delusions as he is tortured
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Is there D.I.D. misrepresentation?
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6
Is there autism specific abuse?
40 supporters
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24
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StormyTaylor
a character mentions previous suicide attempts, is on screen for about 30-60 seconds, and we never see her again
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Yes
12
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0
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StormyTaylor
there are lots of dream sequences/flashbacks/flash-forwards that can confuse the viewer on what's real
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Does someone have a meltdown?
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1
No
3
Is there misophonia?
31 supporters
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16
No
1
5
goblingorl
For me, hearing the dog eat and also at a few other points in the film, there are some mouth sounds that bothered me.
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Are there anxiety attacks?
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Yes
3
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20
Is there ABA therapy?
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Yes
0
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7
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FatalDeviation
No but a character does reference having attempted suicide in the past.
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Is there body dysphoria?
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0
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7
Yes
0
No
21
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FatalDeviation
No but shots of Asami's very thin body with bones protruding are shown constantly throughout the film. This would be very triggering to anyone with eating disorders.
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TheSweetestCaroline
There is a kidnapped man that is kept in a sack but you never see anything from his POV.
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HorrificHermione
Though it seems to be only be for the purpose of torture-feeding a man, a woman purposely makes herself vomit into a bowl.
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ScaredyKitty
There are mentions of suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts, but nobody dies from it.
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Yes
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Rokka666
a character with untreated PTS discusses their trauma
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Noxious
Are there underwater scenes?
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5
Yes
8
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0
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sjamie98
The climax of the film has some loud noises and jumpy moments.
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Is there shakey cam?
38 supporters
Yes
15
No
20
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FatalDeviation
There are quite a few abrupt cuts.
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Does a baby cry?
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15
Is there screaming?
13 supporters
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Yes
7
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0
0
Taylord
A disabled man is seen masturbating to the severing of a person’s legs in the last 20 minutes of the film
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JoeyCarella
during the audition scenes, there is a flash between pictures of girls auditioning. The flashes are very rapid
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Paranoia
Is someone watched without knowing?
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Yes
1
No
7
Is the fourth wall broken?
10 supporters
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Yes
0
No
12
Pregnancy
Is a baby stillborn?
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Yes
0
No
12
Does someone miscarry?
21 supporters
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28
Are there babies or unborn children?
13 supporters
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0
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12
Is there childbirth?
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Yes
0
No
23
Are there abortions?
13 supporters
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Yes
0
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25
Does a pregnant person die?
17 supporters
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Yes
0
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24
Prejudice
Are there homophobic slurs?
43 supporters
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Yes
0
No
23
0
There is a disabled character who is abusive, but it is never implied or stated he is doing it because of this.
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Are there usages of the n-word?
33 supporters
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Yes
0
No
23
Yes
0
No
26
Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
34 supporters
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Yes
0
No
17
Does an LGBT person die?
30 supporters
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Yes
0
No
29
Are there fat jokes?
53 supporters
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Yes
0
No
23
Is there aphobia?
21 supporters
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Yes
0
No
8
Is a minority is misrepresented?
24 supporters
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Yes
0
No
10
Does the black guy die first?
19 supporters
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Yes
0
No
27
Is there hate speech?
31 supporters
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Yes
0
No
28
Race
Is there blackface?
33 supporters
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Yes
0
No
8
Relationships
Yes
16
No
0
1
NicoleMay
The main plot revolves around an older man perusing a young woman romantically
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Religious
Is religion discussed?
12 supporters
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Yes
0
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7
Are there demons or Hell?
13 supporters
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Yes
0
No
6
Sex
Are there nude scenes?
41 supporters
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Yes
12
No
2
Is there bestiality?
79 supporters
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0
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12
Does someone lose their virginity?
13 supporters
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0
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10
Is someone sexually objectified?
42 supporters
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Yes
12
No
0
Are there incestuous relationships?
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80 supporters
Yes
24
No
1
13
roughentumble
Sort of. The movie's kind of vague about it, but (spoilers) the main female character is revealed to have been abused by her stepfather, and in scenes of the abuse it has extremely sexual overtones. Also, her stepfather shown masturbating to her at one point, though it is very briefly.
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1
4
FatalDeviation
There is a scene which occurs in the main character's head where he imagines all the women in his life attempting to give him oral sex. The creepy ballet instructor is also seen briefly masturbating in a kind of flashback/hallucination, presumably in front of a child. He physically abuses her, which has sexual undertones. It is also implied that two main characters consentually have sex off-screen.
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Is there BDSM?
20 supporters
Yes
1
No
5
0
NicoleMay
The villain shows up at the end wearing leather gear and forcing a character to submit
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Sexism
Yes
0
No
11
Sickness
Yes
10
No
0
0
NicoleMay
A character dies of cancer
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Does someone have a stroke?
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10
Does someone have a chronic illness?
10 supporters
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2
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7
Is there dementia/Alzheimer's?
24 supporters
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Yes
0
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Social
Are there fat suits?
30 supporters
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Yes
0
No
10
Is someone homeless?
5 supporters
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Yes
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10
Is existentialism debated?
12 supporters
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0
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9
Are there anti-abortion themes?
34 supporters
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Yes
0
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11
Spoiler
Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
4 supporters
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0
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25
Are there end credit scenes?
35 supporters
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Yes
1
No
6
Yes
29
No
2
3
FatalDeviation
The ending is quite open-ended but without knowing the fate of the characters, I suppose it is sad.
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Vehicular
Does a car honk or tires screech?
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0
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10
Does a car crash?
19 supporters
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Yes
0
No
26
Does a plane crash?
11 supporters
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Yes
0
No
23
Is someone hit by a car?
19 supporters
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Yes
0
No
24
Violence
Does someone drown?
17 supporters
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Yes
0
No
27
Is there blood/gore?
53 supporters
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Yes
39
No
0
Is there a nuclear explosion?
7 supporters
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0
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25
Yes
19
No
2
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roughentumble
Another "blink and you'll miss it" scene, during the main character's hallucinations/dream sequence, he sees a vision of his son getting shot in the head. It isn't real, and it only takes a few seconds for the scene to play out, but it is there.
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