| nudity |
7/10
There is a scene where a pornographer brings in pictures he took with naked women. They are bare breasted, some of them touch their private parts. Pictures are very brief but graphic detail can be seen. (0:20:28-34)
Photos of a naked couple kissing, usually from the shoulders up, but all nudity is carefully obscured. (50:17-32, 51:8-12, 56:25-28)
There is one case of adultery.
Reference to anal sex. (~1:03:45)
Sy forces a couple to strip naked on a bed and perform lewd sexual acts on each other. The couple cry and protest but Sy has a knife and forces them. Sexual acts are just off-screen but graphic nudity of both sexes are shown including female breasts, pubic region of male and female and male and female buttocks. (1:13:06+)
When Sy reveals the reasons for his actions at the end of the movie, it is implied that he was sexually abused and photographed by his father as a child.
Sy sits on the toilet in the Yorkin's household with his pants and underwear pooled around his ankles. This is revealed to be a fantasy of his, but at first it appears as though he has broken into the house to do this.
Nina shouts out into the phone that she "knows he's been fucking Maya!" (in reference to her own husband), which she says in front of her young son and two cops.
Sy orders a woman to put Will Yorkin's "thing" in her mouth. |
| violence |
5/10
Sy's eyes spill out blood at one point during a distorted dream sequence in the movie.
He also threatens a man and woman with a knife (heavily implied to be another of Sy's fantasies, especially when Will Yorkin returns home safely and Maya is in the bathtub crying).
Photos of Will Yorkin are found with the faces scratched out, as well as photo's of Sy's boss' young daughter in close-up focus (these photos were taken during Sy's monologue about "hunting" with photography), and all in all these photos are implied to be death threats.
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| profanity |
5/10
Occasional strong language including 12 uses of the word "fuck", one use of "asshole", two uses of "shit", many uses of "damn" and "hell", some uses of "god, oh god", etc. and "anal sex" and "thing", among other sexual euphemisms. |
| alcohol |
2/10
Smoking and alchohol consumption are seen during the course of the film, but with no real focus. |
| frightening |
10/10
Thematic elements create a disturbing tone for the film. In particular, Sy is a lonely man who forms an unhealthy obsession with a family whose photos he develops.
One of the walls in Sy's apartment is filled entirely with pictures of one family from over the years. The husband's face is scratched out of all the pictures, while the mother and son's images remain intact. The police discover this at the end of the film.
Not really frightning, but a bit intense is when Sy explains the reasons for his actions to the detective. His father forced him to take pornographic pictures as a child in degrading sexual ways. There are no pictures shown, however.
The distorted dream sequence where Sy bleeds out of his eyes is particularly scary and comes out of nowhere.
The scene where Sy threatens the couple with the knife and forces them to pose in sexual ways is very intense.
Overall: 29/50
This movie is quite disturbing, creepy, and sad.
Due to the disturbing nature of the film, it is suitable for 16+ only.
Contains some strong nudity, violence, moderate language and a unsettling theme. |
