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Sex & Nudity

  • During one lengthy segment of un-simulated consensual sadomasochism, a fully nude woman's butt is visible. Between her spread legs, her vulva is visible with enough detail to discern labia. Pain is inflicted. See details below.
  • During another lengthy segment of un-simulated consensual BDSM, a fully nude man's scrotum is visible. His penis is visible; in some scenes flaccid, in another extended scene it is erect and twitching. Sexual hand-to-genital contact is seen. Pain is inflicted; this segment is intense. See details below.
  • Other scenes include additional full male and female nudity, frank and detailed discussions of sexual activity, and visually unappealing (and perhaps unusual; I don't know) submissive/dominant pseudo-sexual behavior. See details below.
  • Nudity: male full rear and frontal nudity; female rear and topless nudity.

Violence & Gore

  • An animal attacks and prepares to eat another animal; you hear the prey's squeals.
  • Civilian gun owners/aficionados stand guard outside a house, practice shooting at targets that have human images, and shoot without ammo at humans in a quick-reaction course. A man sweeps up hundreds of spent casings.
  • A man's trophy room shows dozens of mounted heads of exotic animals he shot, some stuffed corpses of animals, and pelts of skinned animals.
  • Moderate pain is inflicted in the two segments of sadomasochism.

Profanity

  • As English subtitled on VUDU, there's almost none. Something is described as shitty once. And one person uses "f*ck" and "screw" once or twice to casually describe sexual relations with her love slave. Some racist (anti-Turk) conversation occurs, but without slurs.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Not much: wine is drunk socially, briefly. A man smokes two cigarettes. A group of six or seven youngish adults are hanging out, a few smoking, with empty booze bottles visible on a table.
  • Drugs, recreational: None

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Gun-toting civilians practicing quick draws on human-like targets may disturb some viewers, as may racist conversations.
  • The BDSM activities are as intense as anything seen in the film Kink, and probably more disturbing because they are shown close-up, with obvious negative effects on the body, and continue without cuts for extended times.

Spoilers

The Parents Guide items below may give away important plot points.

Sex & Nudity

  • In one BDSM segment, a woman bends over a spanking table with her legs spread, showing her vulva, labia, and butt, but not her rectum. A man strikes her rear with a variety of paddle, rods, and short whips until her butt is red. The woman occasionally squeals, grunts, or cries just a little.
  • In the other BDSM segment, a dominant female shows her collection of butt plugs and dildos and describes how she uses them on her submissive male. Nude in the following scenes, his butt is visible, but no genitals: He vacuums a floor; he licks a glass shower stall clean with his tongue; after the woman urinates, while she is still on the commode, he cleans the woman's vulva with his tongue -- he is shown kneeling, only her legs are visible.
  • A scene shows the submissive man nude with three, 1-kg weights suspended from a loop tied around his scrotum. The dominant woman checks their condition, you see her very briefly touch his testicles and semi-erect penis, then he begins washing dishes.
  • A scene shows the submissive man nude lying on a bed. A constriction around his scrotum is so tight his testicles have turned blue. His penis is erect. You see her squeeze his testicles, causing him to yelp. Using a block-and-pulley, the woman attaches a cable from overhead to a ring around his penis. His penis twitches. She tugs on the cable several times. When she tugs, he groans with pain.
  • A woman elaborately but not restrictively trussed in ropes is nude, breasts visible, vulva usually obscured by her hands. She speaks at length about non-consensual, initially consensual-turned-abusive, and consensual pain inflicted by various previous partners.
  • A nude woman is confined to a cage.
  • A man and woman in lingerie/BDSM attire discuss their preferences and abilities. As an example, the man states that women find him satisfying because he "cums so hard" and so much that they can feel it on the vaginal wall.
  • An Austrian/German man complains that Turkish immigrants are screwing their blonde daughters. Someone mentions that raping the women was used by earlier invaders, the Huns, with some inferred rationale.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Even though you know what's coming, a python finally striking and taking its living food (hamster?) is startling enough to make anyone jump.
  • A woman's use of grotesque dolls as an emotional substitute for children can be intensely sad.
  • Considerable time is spent showing a group of men socializing in their personal Nazi museum, which may upset many viewers.

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