A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, tracing the rise and fall of multiple characters in an era of unbridled decadence and depravity during Hollywood's transition from silent films to sound films in the late 1920s.
This movie contains 78 potentially triggering events.
Yes. A man watches a woman he's smitten with while she's dancing with others. There may very well be other instances as well, as it's a long and eventful movie with several scenes full of people, but it's been a while since I watched it, so I can't recall.
A teenage girl dies during a sexual encounter with a much older man; the actress playing the teen is 33, however, and you wouldn’t know she was supposed to be underage until she is stated to be.
SPOILERS: Brad Pitt’s character commits suicide with about 20 minutes left in the film, and Margot Robbie’s character is stated to have died right before the final sequence.
Multiple: a minor character at the beginning, another minor character later on, a couple of minor characters, a supporting character, another supporting character, and two major characters towards the end.
Margot Robbie's character goes to a party at the Hearst mansion about halfway through the movie -- [SPOILERS] she purposefully makes a scene at the food table by messily binge eating with her hands, storms out, then rushes back into the party for vengeance by projectile vomiting all over multiple people. VERY graphic!!!
Two characters briefly visit another character in what looks to be a hallway of a sanatorium. A brief conversation follows and the patient does not speak
A news story is shown about a fan of one of the characters completing suicide, a minor character who has frequent ideation finally completes suicide, SPOILERS: One of the main characters completes suicide, and another main character walks off into the unknown with some suggestion of ideation or at least of "giving up"
Almost everyone on screen has a screaming meltdown at some point during the scene where they're trying to film Nellie's first "talkie." Some of the meltdowns turn physical.
One of the main characters is struggling with doing a spoken word scene for the first time and is shown offset being anxious, sweaty, breathing hard, and asking for some medication
One character eats food with her hands in front of a group of people while calling herself an animal and then returns to v* on them. This is all (supposedly) done intentionally for the purpose of ruining the party. This same character is thin but mentions having been frequently called ‘too fat’ for roles. But the two scenes are far apart in the movie and not directly connected. There is no indication of ed outside of these scenes and she seems confident in her appearance/ not focused on food
A few people do. There's a quick flash to a news headline about a teenager who committed suicide and a picture is shown. Spoiler: there's one on screen after Brad Pitt's character hands a bell boy some cash towards the end.
In the scene where they are trying repeatedly to film a take with sound for the first time, somebody sneezes. What follows is an extremely aggressive antisemitic rant with multiple slurs directed at him
SPOILERS A woman who has been in relationships with men and at least one woman dies at the end of the movie. She was in a relationship with a man at the time. Her death does not seem to be directly related to bisexuality and it happens offscreen
A fat man is consensually degraded for erotic reasons near the beginning of the film. Fat characters are portrayed as comic relief/ funny just by existing throughout. A thin woman says she was passed over for roles for being fat, and she later pretends to eat uncontrollably with her hands and then v*, which is portrayed to be disgusting though not directed at any fat characters
In a roundabout way - a black character is lighter skinned than his band, and so is pressured into darkening his skin in order to be able to sell a film in the segregated south.
Near the beginning, a man engages in kink play with someone later described to look like a child. Whether she is actually a minor is never revealed, but he looks older than her. There are so many crowd scenes that I’m assuming other sexual activity with age gaps occurs in the background.
Slight spoilers ahead: Male character is hit by a car after a failed snake fight that causes everyone to run around. The accident is on-screen, but no injuries are depicted.