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Certification

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MPAA Rated R for strong graphic sexuality, nudity, language and some violence
Certification

Sex & Nudity

  • Sex is graphic and frequent, especially during the mid-course of the film.
  • A woman on her wedding day has sex with her husband in a public bathroom. No nudity is shown but the woman can be seen taking off her panties and flashing her husband.
  • A man undresses himself butt naked and the woman is very impressed with the man's penis, he then sits on a bed and his penis is shown. He then puts her hand on his penis.
  • A man and a woman have sex, and the man performs oral sex on the woman he can then be seen thrusting into her
  • A man and a women have sex, the man thrusts into the woman and her breasts bounce while the thrusting rapidly continues.
  • Naked men are seen in the showers.
  • A woman lies fully naked on a bed(frontal nudity shown) and offers herself to a doctor. When he rejects her she starts crying.
  • A woman masturbates a man on a bus. She runs off the bus to throw up.
  • A woman has sex with a stranger. She cries during.
  • A woman becomes more revealing in attire.
  • A woman is presumably raped and beaten offscreen.

Violence & Gore

  • A man breaks a drinking glass by squeezing it. Glass can be seen embedded in the man's hand.
  • An explosion happens in a oil mining rig and a man is caught in the explosion. No blood or anything happens but the next incident is very intense.
  • A man is struck by a pole and this paralyses him.
  • A women's clothes are cut by a man who wants to watch the woman have sex with his friend.
  • A women threatens to shoot a man who wants to by now rape her.
  • Children throw rocks at a woman.

Profanity

  • Not a lot of profanity is said but the occasional swear word is tossed around.
  • Tart is the most heavily and hurtful profanity said; to the viewer it will be anyway.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Drinks are consumed by workmen.
  • People smoke cigars at a wedding.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • A woman talks to God and thinks God talks to her through her words.
  • A man is paralyzed.
  • A man asks his wife to have sex with other men and come back and tell him about it.
  • The women is obsessed with pleasing her husband.
  • The screams of women will be intense.

Spoilers

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Sex & Nudity

  • Breasts of the female protagonist are seen while undergoing defibrillation.

Violence & Gore

  • A women is presumably raped and beaten offscreen. We see the effects of this when she is brought into hospital. She dies.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Breaking the waves is incredibly depressing. It can be hard to watch at times
  • During the course of the film a woman slowly changes into a prostitute to please her husband.
  • A women dies of her wounds in a beating and rape.

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