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Sex & Nudity

    • In the frst shot of the film after the opening credits, we see a teenaged boy and girl laying naked on the ground, facing each other. There is no male gentalia seen, but we see his naked body. The girl's breasts are fully exposed. However, this shot is in low light, and it only lasts for a few seconds.
    • A boy holds a girl up on his back in a lake. He holds her skirt up and we see her wet underwear.
    • A boy tells a girl to "keep her curtains open so that he can see her at night." He is extremely naive, so he doesn't realize how that can be taken as a crude sexual advance.
    • It is implied that a girl intentionally cuts her hand and groin area with a thorny stick. We see her hands on it and it looks like she is thrusting it into her vagina. However, no nudity is shown, and it is ambiguous as to whether or not she is actual doing this.
    • A fully-clothed girl jumps into a lake where she sees a boy swimming. He is swimming shirtless, and we see his naked upper body, but no other nudity.
    • A boy and girl strip themselves and run screaming through a forest. Full frontal and back nudity is seen on both the male and female. The male's penis and pubic hair is seen (as well as his bare butt), and the girl's breasts, vulva, and bare butt are shown as well. This whole scene is one dark light, however, but it's easy to make out all of the genetalia.
    • A boy and girl shove food into each other's mouths. It's ambiguous as to whether or not this is supposed to be romantic or rather just playful.
    • A boy and girl strip next to a fire, but we only see the girl's breasts briefly. The boy slips his legs under hers and gets into a position where they could have sex. We see no penetration, for it is covered by the girl's naked legs and butt. They stroke each other, and it is not revealed as to whether or not they have sex.
    • A tenaged boy and girl are shown laying on the ground in a suggestive position, but they are fully-clothed, and nothing sexual is said or done.
    • A boy and girl make out with each other while lying on the ground.
    • A boy unzips his pants, but nothing is shown because the scene ends quickly.
    • A girl kisses a boy on the lips and strokes his head. He strokes her head back.
    • A boy and girl discuss what is "sexy." Nothing graphic.
    • A boy rehearses what he will say to a girl once he sees her. He says, alone, "you look very sexy."

Violence & Gore

    • A group of hooligan teenagers throw amateurish molotov cocktails at another boy in a tree, whilst shouting harsh words at him.
    • A boy slips and falls down on gravel. This is meant to be humorous, and is not violent in any way.
    • A boy pretends to drown and a girl throws a small rock at his head to get his attention. No blood or violence.
    • A boy picks a worm out of the dirt on the ground and eats it.
    • A boy and a girl whack each other with sticks and throw things at each other playfully.
    • A girl hits a boy in the chest with her fists many times. The boy shows no reaction, but he hits her once, and she sits still.
    • A girl recieves several cuts from a blueberry bush in a forest. She is covered in bloody cuts when she returns home.
    • During a prayer session at a Catholic church, a girl holds onto a candle as she prays to Mother Mary, and then realizes that she had burned her arms on the other candles. Red splotches are seen on her skin.
    • A girl and a boy show each other their scars as proof of how they are abused and/or how they hurt themselves. They then strip themselves, (see Sex/Nudity section above) exposing all of their scars, and yell aloud to relieve themselves of their anger (never using any coherent words). They hit things (and each other) and yell and run around in circles. They then lay down on the ground together and smack each other's heads together lightly, but we hear them smack. A very strange sequence that actually may confuse some viewers.
    • A boy mocks Jesus by holding his arms out and tying a thorny vine around his head. He ties it tighter and tighter. The girl he is with tells him to stop, but she decides to help him with it, and she begins to tie it tighter as well. We see blood streaming down his head in some places.
    • A teenaged boy and girl cradle each other in a sexual position while licking the blood from their scars off of each other.
    • A girl sees through the trees in a park that a boy has a great amount of blood on his clothed crotch area. No nudity.
    • A girl's hands bleed very much when she holds shards of glass in her hand and closes her fist over them.
    • A boy attacks another boy by tackling him to the ground. They punch and hit each other for awhile and one pulls a box cutter on the other.
    • A boy intentionally slams his head on a thick tree branch and whispers to himself: "Let it hurt, let it hurt, let it hurt."
    • A boy breaks into a store by smashing a glass door with a metal trash can. He and his female friend then run from the police.
    • A boy pulls a box cutter on an adult and threatens to hurt him with it.
    • A girl punches, kicks, and throws a boy onto the ground in anger.
    • A boy smears his blood underneath a girl's eyes.

Profanity

    • A boy is called a "queer."
    • "F***" is used around a total of 26 times.
    • "S***" is used around a total of 11 times.
    • "Bloody" is said around a total of 6 times.
    • "Jesus" is used twice as a religious exclamation.
    • A girl is taunted by a group of boys by the fact of her virginity. They call her "virgin," but in a demeaning way.
    • The term "pervert" is used 5 times.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

    • A teenaged girl drinks wine out of the bottle briefly.
    • At a party, many teenagers consume alcohol, and they seem to get a bit tipsy. They smoke cigarettes as well.
    • A teenager smokes a cigarette.
    • Another party scene shows many teenagers drinking alcohol.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

    • The sequence where the teenaged male and female run around naked, yell, and hit each other won't frighten viewers, but confuse some.

Spoilers

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Sex & Nudity

    • A girl's neighbor (her family's friend) and teacher is revealed to be a pedophile. In one scene, he grazes her hair and kisses her neck and mouth romantically, even though she is significantly younger than him. He takes her coat off and exposes her bra. He removes part of the bra, and one of the girl's breasts are seen, but only partially. She tries to put the bra back on. We hear the man's pants unzip and he falls onto her crotch area. He rapes her. We see him thrust once or twice (with no male or female nudity) and the girl briefly screams. Nothing very graphic. The scene cuts to the man leaving the house, acting as if nothing had happened.
    • A girl's parents tell her that they remember when she "had a crush" on her schoolteacher when she was younger as how she said she "wanted to marry" him. This is ironic, becuase the same man they are discussing raped the girl without the parents knowing.
    • A man makes his son strip in front of him so that he can see his wounds. However, it is implied that he also wants his son to perform oral sex on him. He makes his naked son get down on his knees and we see that the father unzips his pants and discusses how an erection must happen in order for copulation to occur. No nudity from either of them is seen. However, the boy does not comply and decides to slam his head against his father's crotch area and runs away. He runs out of the house naked, but only his bare buttocks are seen.
    • A girl reveals to her male friend that she was raped, but it is only inferred.
    • A boy kisses a girl and removes her shirt for her. He then removes her bra and we see her breasts fully. She removes his shirt, and then they remove each other's pants. They are completely naked, yet we only see them from the waist up, and the girl's breasts are still in plain view. They kiss passionately. Then, they have sex. We see the boy on top of the girl from the chest up. He thrusts softly and the girl grunts and moans. The boy grunts and continues to thrust. It is implied that they finish, and the scene is over. No penetration is shown, but graphic nudity of the bodies before the sexual encounter is present.

Violence & Gore

    • A boy slams his head against his father's penis when the father tries to make the boy perform oral sex on him. The man screams in pain.
    • The dead body of a man is seen. The police speak of what could've happened, and they say that it looks like something hit him on the head from a great height. The body has no blood on it that we can see, and it is perfectly intact. It is implied that the main boy in the movie did it to the man out of jealousy.
    • A girl lights something on fire and sets it next to a tree, setting the tree on fire. However, she also accidentally lights her pet hedgehog on fire and we see it running out, engulfed in flames. She puts it out, but it continues to whimper. A boy then stomps it to death.
    • A boy dies by falling off of a very tall wall onto a road as a car passes by. It is thought that this is a suicide, but it is unclear as to whether or not this is true in the film. At the boy's funeral, the girl drags the boy's coffin around, yelling at it. However, the boy is shown after his "death" playing with the girl. It is revealed, however, that this is just a figment of her imagination.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

    • A man says that he had "too much to drink last night" as an excuse for raping a teenaged girl.

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