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- Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking (2)
- Frightening & Intense Scenes (4)
- Spoilers (2)
Certification
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Sex & Nudity
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- Some men are seen shirtless, and some women wear low-cut dresses.
- A naked child is seen emerging from a swamp as a soldier approaches to try and rescue him.
- An implied gang rape of three Tutsi women; one woman is seen with her skirt missing, nude from the waist down, as a nearby soldier laughs and zips up his fly.
Violence & Gore
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- It's a film about genocide. Long story short: there are plenty of scenes with people getting shot and killed. Moderately bloody. Although, some of these killings are offscreen.
- A convoy consisting of multiple garbage trucks is seen passing a road in front of two men. The men look on in shock as the scene cuts to the interior of each dump truck; close-up shots of multiple human bodies, some covered in blood and fluid of some sort (mud that they fell into when killed?) are visible onscreen for several seconds.
- A woman is held at gunpoint. A young boy hides behind another woman in the background. The first woman walks right up to the soldiers threatening her, begging them to let her family go. One of the soldiers shouts at her and shoots her in the side of the head, killing her instantly; blood is seen and a number of children on the background lawn and balcony scream in terror as the soldiers proceed to shoot them.
- Dead bodies are seen lying around in multiple scenes, often dumped in patches of dirt in a very disrespectful manner, including the bodies of children. In some scenes, the bodies are seen being dragged by whomever killed them.
Profanity
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- Some uses of "god", "oh my god", "goddamned" and "hell".
- "cockroach" used as an ethnic slur.
Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking
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- One brief scene of a man smoking a cigarette (about 3 seconds)
- An enormous billboard is briefly seen advertising "the power of beer" with two glasses of yellow alcohol (cartoon glasses) printed on it.
Frightening & Intense Scenes
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- Numerous scenes of sudden peril, death, extreme violence and personal property destruction.
- There is a racist political radio show broadcast heard in the film, as well as a visual intro commentary about Belgian colonialism and the impact it had on the tensions between the Hutu and Tutsi in Rwanda. This is disturbing at times; at one point, a man is seen measuring the nasal structure and eye colour of an African man to attempt to classify his worth by race.
- A soldier (who happens to be a preteen boy) is seen holding women and children at gunpoint if they appear to have Tutsi features. One girl is pulled away to the side of the road; the scene cuts away to a human body being thrown off the side of a high overpass.
- Houses are seen being set on fire and destroyed; one man is shocked to find his telephone and TV set broken, his vegetable garden destroyed and his family photos all smashed. Broken glass and furniture are seen broken, and rooms looted. One man shaves his face using the shard of glass from a broken mirror.
Spoilers
Violence & Gore
- A man has a machete placed in his hand and is ordered to kill his best friend; he is told "we don't like to waste bullets on killing cockroaches". The man refuses to kill his friend, but the friend is then shot through the chest by a nearby soldier and bleeds to death in the road. The man is forced to leave his friend's body behind and drive away.
- A teenage girl dies onscreen, her teacher and sister are seen crying in grief.
