MAI

Occasional moderate violence includes punches, slaps and hair-pulling.

A man is cornered and beaten up by a group of men in a dark alley. A woman imagines being menaced by zombies during a sequence of moderate fantasy threat.

There is use of strong language (‘f**k’). Milder terms include ‘bitch’, ‘whore’, ‘slut’, ‘hooker’ and ‘shit’.

Infrequent strong sex scenes show couples thrusting together in various positions. Other scenes contain crude references to sex work and oral sex.

People make derogatory comments about sex workers and supposedly ‘promiscuous’ women, using discriminatory terms such as ‘slut’, ‘whore’, ‘dirty’ and ‘used’. One woman addresses another as ‘fatty’. Discrimination is not condoned by the film as a whole.

A woman takes an unidentified pill following a fraught argument.

A series of flashbacks strongly implies that a man allowed other men to sexually abuse his underage daughter in return for money; though distressing, the flashbacks are brief and devoid of graphic visual detail. During a scene of sexual threat, a man enters a woman’s flat without invitation, corners her and sexually propositions her, refusing to leave even after she slaps him and threatens to scream. However, she is rescued when another person intervenes. There are occasional scenes of sexual harassment, including ones in which a male client flirts with a female masseuse and implies that he expects her to perform a sexual act; the masseuse initially refuses his advances but later begins a romantic relationship with him. In another scene a woman has sex with a man while under the influence of alcohol.

Brief flashbacks to a suicide attempt feature close-up bloody detail.

There are brief close-up images of a bleeding wound during flashbacks to a suicide attempt.

There is occasional brief male buttock nudity in a non-sexual context, as well as fleeting partial rear nudity during a sex scene.

A woman drunkenly vomits over another person. Further rude humour includes fart gags and conversations about 'poop'.

There are occasional scenes of emotional upset. A man emotionally blackmails his adult daughter into paying off his gambling debts.

This work contains flashing images which may affect viewers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy.