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(1973)

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Sex & Nudity

  • Male genitals are shown VERY often.
  • There are multiple scenes where male and female nudity is shown, including some sexual acts. Almost all of it is animated.

Violence & Gore

  • Several stylized animated brawls (including spousal abuse), several of them quite bloody.
  • The opening sequence features violent acts on the streets of New York, including a store robbery, a policeman falling to his death (people laughing or cheering in the background), a shifty man clubbing pedestrians, and man meeting his death when a dynamite stick explodes next to him (his guts are visibly sticking out of his stomach).
  • Michael pushes a topless woman from the rooftop.
  • A man is hit in the head with a frying pan. He is then shoved in a gas oven, which is turned on.
  • He punches a woman in the face. She hurls an axe at him. Later, she brandishes an axe and he slaps her face with the handle of a handgun while Michael and Rosa have sex.
  • A gang has a rather disturbing fight on a rooftop after helping two people have sex. They can be clearly seen stabbing and hitting each other with knives, chains and other weapons. They have a look of joy on their faces.
  • A man physically abuses a transvestite in a bar.
  • A fantasized sequence involving a graphic shooting.
  • Michael is shot in the head; the top of it is blown off in graphic detail. As Michael is dead, shocking and bizarre images appear.
  • The man has a gory dying fantasy.
  • A bizarre sequence depicts a man being shot in the head several times (holes visible and bleeding) and another man having his face bitten off.

Profanity

  • The F-word is used 16 times. The S-word is used 25 times. Other familiar obscenities occur quite frequently as do racial and gay slurs.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Many people smoke cigarettes throughout the film.
  • People are often seen drinking alcohol, almost always to excess.
  • Marijuana is smoked.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • A legless man on a wheeled platform menaces several characters.
  • There is a disturbing sequence viewed from a character's mind moments after he is shot, showing subliminal images of war and death.

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