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(2014)

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Certification

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MPAA Rated R for graphic nudity, language, sexual references and some violence
Certification

Sex & Nudity

  • A man kisses his female sex slave robot, lifts her dress to expose her fully nude body and presses her against the wall while continuing to kiss her. Sex to follow is implied.
  • While taking a shower, a person closes his eyes and fantasizes spending time with the AI robot he's evaluating in the forest by the waterfall, including upto them sharing a kiss. No explicit nudity.
  • Many female sex slave robots are shown completely nude. Full female nudity is shown.
  • At 57:23 Kyoko is seen in a thin shirt and panties. Her nipples can be seen through the shirt. She starts to unbutton her shirt but Caleb stops her. She then dances with Nathan and her panties are seen multiple times as she dances.
  • A female sex slave robot is displayed completely naked on a bed for a long time. Her buttocks, breasts and pubic area are clearly visible.
  • Two extended sequences that have lots of nudity, 38:12 - 35:20 and 14:05 - 10:30 Max counts time backwards.
  • A man jokes that oral sex was performed by a ghost in a film.
  • Conversation between two people about sexual intercourse. One asks the other if the latter wants to have intercourse with his robot and about how it would be performed if such a case arises.
  • A lengthy scene shows full frontal nudity of multiple women in a non-sexual context.

Violence & Gore

  • A person hits his robot in the face and her lower jaw falls off.
  • With bloodied hand, Caleb punches the smart mirror in front of him which is recording everything with one-way screen.

Profanity

  • Use of "Jesus" and "Christ."
  • 20 uses of "fuck" (some in a sexual context)
  • Uses of milder bad language including "shit"

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Lots of alcohol consumption from beer to hard liquor; drunkenness on several occasions depicted, referred to and induced.
  • One of the characters is an alcoholic, and drinks in most of the scenes.
  • The alcoholic is seen drunk once, and with a hangover twice.
  • Some scenes contain people drinking beer.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • This is a very dark and disturbing movie. Some scenes show the main character confused as to whether what he is experiencing is real life. The entire movie has eerie music and has an eerie feeling throughout.

Spoilers

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Sex & Nudity

  • At 1:36:22 Ava is seen naked in full frontal and rear view in front of mirrors. Very graphic (her vulva is only slightly visible behind pubic hair) and lasts over a minute.

Violence & Gore

  • Two stabbings with a knife and a few brief moments of hand to hand fighting that cause an android jaw and lower arm to come off. Man hitting a punching bag for several minutes.
  • Caleb slits his left wrist with a razor blade.
  • A person gets stabbed in the back very swiftly and you can see some blood on his shirt. Then the knife gets pulled out, and he gets stabbed in the stomach (again very swiftly) and it is pulled out. There is blood on the knife and on both spots of his shirt, there is some blood. He then falls down dead, and later you see blood pool under him.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • One character plans to get another one drunk twice for his own benefit.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • A person is left, presumably to die, in a locked facility.

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