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Certification

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MPAA Rated PG-13 for violence, disturbing images and mature thematic material, all involving children
Certification

Sex & Nudity

  • It is very evident that one of the main characters is in love with a girl, but it's pretty innocent and nothing happens.

Violence & Gore

  • A baby gets trapped in a minefield and in one attempt to save him, another boy injures his leg severely with a detonating mine. Some blood is seen later.
  • A young girl sets her clothes on fire in an attempt to kill herself, but she ends refusing to do it.
  • It's implied that an explosion happened. You only see fire, but no dead bodies are shown.

Profanity

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Altought rated PG-13, the movie has a very grimm and depressing tone that may disturb less mature audiences.
  • The ending is very sad and hopeless.
  • A baby gets trapped in a minefield in one of the most frightening sequences of the film.

Spoilers

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Sex & Nudity

  • It is revealed that a young girl (aged 12-13) was raped by Baath soldiers and got pregnant. You can see a flashback of the men chasing her and finally catching her as you hear her screams and cries . VERY disturbing and hard to watch.

Violence & Gore

  • The movie opens with a young girl (aged around 12-13) committing suicide by jumping to her death . You only see the jump, the dead body is not shown.
  • It is revealed that a girl was raped by Baath soldiers and that she got pregnant from it, having a child which she hates. You can see flashbacks of the girl being chased around and how the soldiers take her as she screams and cries . VERY disturbing and hard to watch.
  • A little baby is killed by his teen-aged mother. You see her tying the baby's foot with a rope against a heavy rock in front of a lake as the baby cries, and then she suddenly pushes the rock into the water and the baby falls inside the lake, drowning to death off-screen . This scene is EXTREMELY sad and disturbing. She later commits suicide by jumping to her death .
  • The dead body of a baby is found on the deepest part of a lake and you are able to see it for around 5-6 seconds . Very sad and impacting scene.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • The rape scene, altought not shown on-screen, is EXTREMELY disturbing and hard to watch.

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