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- Sex & Nudity (3)
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- Spoilers (13)
Certification
| MPAA | Rated R for sexual content and language |
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Sex & Nudity
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- In one scene, a pornographer shows up with pictures he took of naked women; they are all topless and some of them touch their genitals. The pictures are briefly shown but they're graphic.
- Pictures of a naked couple kissing from the shoulders up, with no nudity visible.
- One reference to anal sex.
Violence & Gore
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- Sy hits a woman's face with a door; she is shown with a slightly bloody cut on her forehead.
- Sy's eyes spill out blood at one point during a distorted dream sequence in the movie.
Profanity
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- Occasional strong language including 12 uses of "f--k," 1 use of "a--hole," 2 uses of "sh-t," many uses of "damn" and "hell," some uses of "god"/"oh god," and sexual terms such as "anal sex" and "thing."
Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking
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- Smoking and alcohol consumption are shown during the course of the film, but only in pictures.
Frightening & Intense Scenes
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- The antagonist, Seymour Parrish, displays invasive behavior towards the middle-class family that would regularly show up at SavMart and has an intense obsession with them throughout the movie. He keeps an extensive collection of pictures of them.
- Thematic elements create a disturbing tone for the film. In particular, Sy is a lonely man who forms an unhealthy obsession with a family whose photos he develops.
Spoilers
Sex & Nudity
- Adultery is repeatedly referenced.
- Sy forces a man and woman to strip naked on a bed and perform sexual acts on each other. The couple cry in protest, but Sy forces them as he threatens them with a knife. The sexual acts themselves take place off-screen, but graphic nudity of both sexes is visible: female breasts, male and female buttocks, and full-frontal male and female nudity.
- Sy sits on the toilet in the Yorkin's household with his pants and underwear around his ankles; no nudity is visible. This is revealed to be a fantasy of his, but at first, he appears to have broken into the house to do it.
- Nina shouts into the phone that she "knows he's been f--king Maya!" (in reference to her own husband), which she says in front of two cops.
Violence & Gore
- Sy threatens a man and a woman with a knife (heavily implied to be another of Sy's fantasies, especially when Will Yorkin returns home safely and Maya is in the bathtub crying).
- Photos of Will Yorkin are found with the faces scratched out, as well as photos of Sy's boss's young daughter in close-up focus (these photos were taken during Sy's monologue about "hunting" with photography), and, all in all, these photos are implied to be death threats.
- When Sy reveals the reasons for his actions at the end of the movie, it is implied that he was sexually abused and photographed by his father as a child.
- Sy forces a woman to put a man's genitals in her mouth while Sy takes pictures of the couple.
Frightening & Intense Scenes
- One of the walls in Sy's apartment is filled entirely with pictures of one family from over the years. The husband's face is scratched out of all the pictures while the mother and son's faces remain intact after he learned about the husband's reputation as a cheater and a poor father. The police discover this at the end of the film.
- Not really frightening, but a bit intense when Sy explains the reasons for his actions to the detective. His father forced him to pose for degrading pornographic pictures as a child; however, no pictures of this are shown.
- The distorted dream sequence where Sy bleeds out of his eyes is particularly scary and comes out of nowhere.
- The scene where Sy threatens the couple with the knife and forces them to pose in sexual ways is very intense.
- The film is disturbing, creepy, but also sad.
