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- Spoilers (2)
Certification
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Sex & Nudity
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- None.
- A little girl removes her panties through the underneath of her dress and hands them to a little boy.
- Two children hold hands and close their eyes, while their lips briefly make slight contact.
Violence & Gore
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- The extent of the violence is a woman punching a man in his face, and there is also some mild melee contact involving children, including an adult tugging a child by the arm. The extent of the gore is a small jet blood from a bleeding child, along with scenes of one child or another with bruises around the neck or arm, and a child with tiny lacerations or bruises on his face. There are also various scenes of a child sustaining self-inflicted injuries, being accidentally roughed-up, setting fires or breaking household fixtures.
- A woman and a young boy work on trying to release and save a choking little boy who has accidentally hanged himself by the neck from a tall tree.
- A child uses a pocket knife or shaving razor to quickly cut the part of his breast muscle near his shoulder, and a small jet of blood squirts onto another child who immediately faints. He also cringes and sobs a bit momentarily, and the part of his shirt near the wound is blood-soaked. His wound, a five-centimeter gash, later shown being stitched closed.
- A group of children maliciously stare at a limping, injured child across the street, and one of them throws a small rock at him, striking him in the back. Afterward, a child walks toward and shoves a smaller child to the ground, standing over him in a threatening manner.
- A little girl is approached and briefly accosted by a possibly drunken man who then kicks her bicycle down, before storming off.
- A hanging deer carcass can be briefly seen, and it hangs in such a way that the body vaguely looks crucified.
- There is a very brief scuffle between two children that ends with the smaller child pinned to the ground, the smaller having tried to ambush the larger from behind.
- A little boy lightly slaps a little girl across her cheek.
- It's implied in multiple scenes and mentioned in one scene that one of the children is being abused, regularly beaten, at home.
Profanity
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- There are multiple instances in which a child flicks off an adult or another child. There is not much cursing or foul language. "Jesus, Mary, Joseph," a stunned child utters at one point. A child calls another child a "sissy". A little boy urinates into a closet, thoroughly hosing down the various contents.
Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking
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- A child pours liquor into a large glass to about three quarters capacity, and then tries to take a large gulp of it but immediately spits it out. A tobacco pipe is briefly grasped by the mouth of a child, but it isn't smoked. There is also a man with a tobacco pipe. Ten year old Leon (Antoine L'Ecuyer) is shown taking two puffs from a cigarette. He offers it to Lea (Catherine Faucher) but she refuses, and soon takes it from his mouth and puts it out. No further references to alcohol, drugs or smoking are in the film.
Frightening & Intense Scenes
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- There are persistent thematic elements, some suspense and a few scenes of a crying child in psychological agony.
- In one scene, a child sets a mess of crumpled papers on a bed on fire, and the flames spread out of control. In another scene, a child works on escaping a house that he has burgled when the rightful occupants return, after hiding from them.
Spoilers
Violence & Gore
- A boy attempts suicide by falling from a ledge. The impact is not shown, but we see "the light at the end of the tunnel," then he is shown with a broken arm, sprained foot, and numerous lacerations. Later he attempts suicide again, placing his head on the board behind the pins during a bowling match. The impact is not shown. He lives, and later we see him with a circular cut on his face where the pin struck.
Frightening & Intense Scenes
- The first attempt at suicide, by falling, is only moderately intense, coming partway through the film and shown from a distance. The second attempt, at the end of the film, is more disturbing, with Leon's face (Antoine L'Ecuyer) shown close up waiting to be struck by the bowling ball. A very intense scene occurs between those two, when Lea (Catherine Faucher) is shown sobbing with Barbie doll in hand, possibly acting out from experiences of abuse; this scene is brief.
