City of Dreams

There are intense scenes of physical abuse and violence, including children being beaten, whipped and burned, often resulting in bloody detail. A description of domestic abuse occurs.

There are sustained scenes of threat, including when a person is taken hostage and a knife is held to their throat during a standoff with police.

There is use of strong language ('f**k', 'motherf**ker') as well as use of milder terms such as ‘bitch’, ‘shit’, ‘balls’, ‘bastard’, ‘tits’, ‘ass’, ‘bloody’, ‘bullshit’, ‘damn’, ‘God’, ‘Jesus’, ‘Christ’ and ‘hell’.

References are made to sex work.

There is use of a discriminatory term ('chink').

A person knocks another unconscious using drugs slipped into their drink.

A person is seen being forced into sex work in a scene featuring discreet nudity. It is also implied that teenage girls are being forced into sex work in some scenes.

Strong injuries result from violence, including wounds on a victim's body as a result of a whipping, and blood seen all over the ground in the aftermath.

Scenes of child abuse occur throughout, including in sequences in which children are forced to work under the threat of violence, and locked in isolation as punishment.