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(1998)

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Sex & Nudity

  • Brief shot of a man's penis
  • A man watches a pornographic film which shows two prolonged scenes of un-simulated sexual intercourse between a man and a woman. Genitalia is clearly visible and penetration shots are graphically shown up close.
  • A junkie prostitute makes advances to the main protagonist and once in her room shows one of her breasts, saying that it is getting hard. Sex is implied but not shown.
  • Quite a lot of sexually charged monologues from a man though not much is shown onscreen, the movie is really filled with sexual content.

Violence & Gore

  • Extremely strong brutal, realistic violence with a very scary main character.
  • A man constantly plans to beat people up or even to kill them...he even considers torturing them and "make them suffer as long as possible"...
  • Not a lot of actual violence, but the few brutal scenes are quite graphic and very realistic.

Profanity

  • Pervasive swearing including the use of words such as: cunt, fuck, shit, fag, retard, dick, and a few other profanities.
  • Numerous instances of extremely explicit sexual dialogue.
  • Numerous instances of homophobic and racist profanity.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • A few scenes take place in bars: as a result, glasses of beer and wine are quite often shown.
  • A man is seen drinking wine in some of the scenes.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • disturbing , in a extremely depressing way
  • A man punches a pregnant woman in the stomach.
  • A man plans to murder people.

Spoilers

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Sex & Nudity

  • Implied sex between a father and his mentally vulnerable daughter. A short snip of it is seen in a flash back.

Violence & Gore

  • However, before the bloody scenes, there appears a title card, warning the viewer about the violent encounter (Spoiler: The card appears before the bloody climax)
  • A man punches a pregnant woman in the stomach. It is suggested that the unborn child dies as a result of this. He then grabs, threatens and pushes away an old woman to make her reveal where she's hiding a gun.
  • A young girl is shot in neck causing blood to spurt out from the open wound. The young girl is then shot in the head, brain matter is visible on the floor around her.
  • A man shoots himself in the head

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • A man takes advantage of his daughter's mental vulnerability and sexually forces himself on her.
  • A man kills his daughter.
  • A man commits suicide.
  • The protagonist's monologues set a nihilistic and misanthropic tone throughout the film. We see the world through the mind of this nihilistic protagonist where an act of incest can be morally justified.

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