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Sex & Nudity

  • A woman opens her top with her breasts briefly visible from the side, as a man sides in the room. She moves closer to a man and the scene ends.
  • A seated woman removes her clothes to show a man her scars on her back; her bare buttocks is visible. Nonsexual scene.
  • The magistrate is shown to have a sexual relationship with a native woman; he is shown going to her bedroom.
  • A magistrate takes in and cares for a female beggar. They are shown sharing the same bed but no sexual interaction. It is implied he wishes to have a closer relationship but she does not reciprocate his feelings. The community misinterprets her role to be a concubine, as stated in a few discussions.
  • Two men holding (implied to be fondling) a young woman are told to let her go.

Violence & Gore

  • A few instances of people being beaten. In one instance a local audience watches, and a young girl take a rod and hots a man with it.
  • The bloody dead body of a man is shown in a body bag.
  • A young man is shown covered in cuts and blood.
  • People are shown after being tortured, with injuries and blood.
  • A man is knocked down and beaten with a rod, and yells that his arm has been broken.
  • A dead soldier arrives from the desert tied to his horse with gruesome injuries.
  • Open wounds are shown a few times.
  • A man screams as he is suspended by his arms from a tree.

Profanity

  • There are vulgarities mentioned.
  • Groups of people are called cruel names and compared to animals.
  • "F*ck' is said twice in one scene by a antagonistic character. No other harsh profanity.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Some soldiers are depicted as obedient to their superiors by expressing no opinions about torturing others.
  • Several military officers are extraordinarily cruel.
  • The incidences of violence are meant to be unsettling.
  • The treatment of indigenous people by their occupiers is extremely harsh.
  • The film has a dark and foreboding tone throughout.

Spoilers

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Violence & Gore

  • Indigenous people though rick and harass people in a city as they try to flee.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • People yell and run as they try to leave a small city.

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