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Social Behavior:

The main character, a photographer, takes pictures of a group of youths threatening a young woman before he acts to stop them. Another character, researching a city's history of crime, contrasts her work with the popular perception of the past as a kinder, gentler time by noting "it turns out there never were any good old days." A security guard checks a character's bag in the subway, noting that "Condition Orange means I can search whatever I want."

Consumerism:

Drugs/Alcohol/Tobacco:

Friends drink hard liquor in celebration; beer and wine are enjoyed at an art reception.

Violence

Constant, brutal, and explicit violence, including endless buckets of blood. Brutal murders are portrayed in graphic fashion, with weapons including a butcher's hook, a hammer, knives, guns, and bare hands; other weapons include severed limbs, bones, and skulls. Multiple scenes of intense fighting, with characters punched, head-butted, slammed into windows, walls, the floor, and more. Deep and bloody wounds are created and shown. Throats are slit; multiple stabbings; a character's head is impaled with a long knife; a character's tongue is ripped out of their mouth and then eaten. A man is struck with a hammer so hard that his eye dislocates from its socket; a female character's demise is shown from her point of view, beginning with a hammer blow so fierce it severs her head -- viewers see her headless body from a distance through her eyes as she dies. Human beings are hung like meat, dangling upside down by hooks rammed through their flesh; their teeth, fingernails, and eyes are shown being removed post-mortem. A character removes (and then keeps) bizarre growths from his flesh by slashing at them with a knife. A heart ripped from a human chest is held aloft while still beating. Piles of dead bodies are seen; animal and human corpses are hung as raw material for butchers.

Sex

Some kissing; discussions of sex in the context of a committed relationship; some nudity, including a nude female murder victim. It's suggested that a supporting character is promiscuously bisexual. Brief phallic imagery. A young woman, threatened by a group of thugs, is told "You gotta pay on your knees, baby." Characters have rough sex, with the clear implication that this isn't the norm for them.

Language

Some, including "f--k," "motherf---er," "s--t," "ass," "bitch," and "s--t."