Where Dragons Live

A painting depicts St George spearing a dragon’s neck, without gory detail.

Occasional references to stories of dragons and monsters include a fantastical sequence depicting a child running as the shadow of a dragon swoops over the ground nearby. Other scenes feature unsettling noises and a very mildly spooky tone. Two children briefly discuss fears such as death and the loss of loved ones.

Bad language includes ‘piss’, ‘bloody hell’, ‘shit’, ‘crap’, ‘Jesus’ and ‘oh my God’.

There are brief condemnatory references to sexism. A woman mentions not having been listened to or believed while suffering from an autoimmune disease as a child.

A man jokes about mice getting 'high' on 'pharmaceuticals' stored in an attic.

A person fondly recalls having picked and eaten wild mushrooms as a child.

There are brief images of taxidermied animals, animal skeletons, and a dead snake preserved in a jar.

Adults are seen smoking cigarettes and drinking alcohol.

The themes of death, grief and challenging family relationships are handled in a sensitive manner. Adult siblings discuss their complicated feelings about their late parents, including their fear of their mother’s temper, and the fact that they were discouraged as children from showing emotion. A man does a comical impression of his father threatening to beat him; however, we are informed that such threats were never enacted.

A man jokes that as a child his sister was more afraid of fantastical monsters than of the potential threat of ‘rapists’.

There are familiar illustrations of St George on horseback stabbing a dragon with a lance.

In a dramatised sequence, the shadow of a dragon flies over a running boy and people recall childhoods in which they were told stories of scary fantastical creatures.

Mild bad language (‘bloody’, ‘shit’, ‘piss’, ‘crap’) is accompanied by very mild terms (‘hell’, ‘God’, ‘Jesus’).

Historical sexist attitudes are reflected on and implicitly challenged, and a woman says she felt ignored within her family because of a childhood medical condition.

A man makes a jokey comment about mice getting 'high' in the attic of the family home on the ‘pharmaceuticals’ kept there by his late mother.

A man talks about his childhood and foraging for wild mushrooms, which were eaten.

There are images of reptile heads kept in jars of formaldehyde and animal skeletons.

People smoke, and consume alcohol.

There are mild upsetting moments as adults and children reflect on matters of death and the complex dynamics of a family life with parents who laid down rules, seemed to favour some siblings over others and kept an emotional distance. A man mimics his father raising a hand to him as a disciplinary threat, but states that he was never actually beaten.

A woman is reminded by her brother that as a child she was more anxious about creatures of the imagination being under her bed than ‘rapists coming in through the window’.