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Sex & Nudity
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- There is some male full frontal nudity at wide-angle shots, mostly only in scenes featuring the bodies of slain men, having been stripped naked. Also a naked baby boy can be seen in a brief post-birth scene.
- As a teenage boy has sex with a teenage girl, there is a closeup shot of her bare breasts and then of his hands grasping at and caressing the breasts.
- The naked woman who has just given birth can been seen laid out on a hospital bed, as pictured from her side.
- A rape scene includes a split-second brief closeup shot of the aggressor's bare behind, from a mostly side angle.
- One of the photographs shown in the end credits sequence includes male rear nudity: a man wearing a shirt but no pants, among a crowd of clothed people.
Violence & Gore
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- The extent of the violence consists of men, women and children suffering gunshot wounds, usually to the chest or shoulder, via rifles fired by men or boys; and a woman being raped by a teenage boy and a younger boy. Overall extremely violent but not very gory.
- One teenage boy can be seen being struck in the head by a fired bullet, and a small jet of blood flowing out of the gunshot wound. This is very brief and may be the only cranial gunshot wound in the movie.
- In a scene early on, a child is forced to gun down his parents.
- Part of the end credits sequence is upon the backdrop of a slide show of documentary photographs of child combatants, violent festivities and some atrocities, including a photograph of a slain woman and infant, and a photograph of a severed head situated in the middle of a street.
- Throughout the movie, the child troops exhibit extreme intimidation and mild brutality toward men, women and children who are outnumbered and unarmed, interrogating the victims and sometimes summarily gunning them down. In one instance, the victim is a child with his hands bound behind his back, and he winds up being gunned down while running away, trying to escape.
- A young girl uses the stock of the rifle she managed to take from a teenage boy to strike him in the head multiple times, causing him to bleed, and then she points the muzzle at him.
- Shootouts, ambushes and raids, all of the homicidal vein, involving youth and grownups, are depicted. These battles/operations don't end until no more opponents are left alive.
- A pig, bound at the snout and legs, is carried around for a while before being shot to death, out of frame, by one of the boys. Later, the pig's severed head, impaled on a stick, can be seen roasted upon a campfire and then chewed upon by one of the boys.
- In multiple scenes, a loaded rocket-propelled grenade launcher can be seen among the child combatants or carried by one of them, and in one scene, a teenage boy fires the ordinance at an enemy-occupied building, striking and detonating part of the structure.
- The child combatants often behave more like dacoits, pirates, bandits and outlaws than troops or militia. As a team, they hunt down and terminate guerilla fighters as well as unarmed civilians, before looting the spoils of war as compensation for being sent on their missions to begin with.
Profanity
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- The word "fuck" and variations thereof are uttered several times throughout the movie.
Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking
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- In one scene, the team of child combatants are gathered together as they drink liquor (vodka perhaps), smoke cigarettes and pop pills.
Frightening & Intense Scenes
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- Nearly all of the violent scenes are also disturbing, if not also frightening or intense. Some of the non-violent scenes may fall into this category as well.
- Laokole's process of trying to protect both a handicapped elder and a little boy from impending threats is suspenseful and heartbreaking.
- A group of little boys being groomed for war are told that they cannot be injured by bullets, after a man discharges an automatic rifle pointed in their direction, after having them undergo a "magical" ritual. Unbeknown to the boys, the man had loaded the magazine with blanks, overall an insidious confidence trick to make the boys fearless, plus he wasn't necessarily intending for them to return safely from the campaign.
- In a brief scene, Johnny's team exhibit some reckless celebratory behavior, in that several of them ride on the hood, roof, trunk and side window openings of a 1978 Ford Granada, without any kind of bracing or restraints, through an urban thoroughfare, while firing automatic rifles pointed upward toward the sky. The car moves at somewhere between forty and fifty kilometers per hour. The boy riding on the front passenger window opening is holding a loaded rocket-propelled grenade launcher.
