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Sex & Nudity

  • Full-frontal male and female nudity in multiple scenes for extended periods of time. Vulvas and penises are visible.
  • There is a group of provocatively dressed prostitutes, one of whom is a very young girl.
  • A woman is nude for the majorly of the film.
  • R: Strong Extreme Graphic Violence, nudity, sexuality, alcohol and drugs use, some pervasive language throughout and for Gore.
  • A sex scene with no nudity.
  • Mild rape sequence - a woman is nude from the waist down for a split second.
  • In a training simulator, many children (mostly boys but at least one girl) are seen briefly running around naked wearing silver hats.
  • A group of boys are running to a man, nudity is visible from five at least from behind.
  • An ice sculpture in the shape of a penis is seen.

Violence & Gore

  • During a recreation of the conquest of Mexico, real toads and horned lizards are covered in blood and subsequently blown up with small explosives on a set.
  • Corpses of both animals and people are repetitively used as symbolic imagery throughout.
  • Many cadavers are shown.
  • A man defecates and then turns the feces to gold.
  • An old man gives a small girl his eye by taking it out of his eye socket. Graphic.
  • A man cuts his fingers off.
  • Goat decapitation offscreen, but the beheaded corpse is shown afterward.
  • Bloody executions by guns.
  • A riot scene leading to a graphic massacre, blood is shown to be different colors at times, and the food is used to represent organs being torn or cut out.

Profanity

  • A few uses of "shit" and "damn." And one use of "fuck."

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Many sequences where characters use drugs.
  • A main character gets drunk.
  • Characters share a joint.
  • Some smoking.
  • A very intoxicated and insane man stuffs a child's mouth full of drugs (different colored pills). He also positively talks about them, implying that drugs are a good thing.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • The film contains various religious imagery and metaphorical representations of Christianity. For example, one of the main characters, known as Thief, bears a resemblance to Jesus Christ, as often depicted. As a result, he is used as a model for wax effigies for sale. He is later seen to consume the face of one of his effigies before sending it to the sky with balloons.
  • There are religious symbols and references, which are shown in an abstract and sometimes absurd manner.
  • Some of the demonic imagery can be frightening, although the musical score tones down the horror-like atmosphere. There is graphic violence and it is all quite surreal and unsettling.
  • Several creepy and downright insane scenes are shown at the end of the movie. Quite intense.

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