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Sex & Nudity

  • A naked woman in one scene, no full frontal nudity. She is seen only briefly, but a man seems to be sexually assaulting her at one moment while she is on screen.
  • Some topless tribal women at one point in the movie.
  • When one of the main characters tells about the origin of a flower he mentions a spiritual being's semen and penis.

Violence & Gore

  • A man is seen eating from the internal organs of a dead baby.
  • A man shows the scars from his slavery at a rubber plantation.
  • A priest holds three men at gunpoint but concedes.
  • A priest whips a boy, he bleeds. The priest is then punched in the face by another man. Not too graphic but upsetting.
  • People flee a village as gunshots of an approaching army can be heard in the distance.

Profanity

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • A major theme of the movie is the psychedelic property of a plant. It is consumed several times according to amazonian ritual. Its effects are only "shown" onscreen once.
  • Some men are shown smoking hand rolled cigarettes.
  • A man blows herbal medicine in another man's nose repeatedly at points throughout the movie.
  • A man laces a cult's sacrament with some sort of hallucinogen. Some are seen acting strange and vomiting. When asked about it he says "I didn't poison them, I made them think better."

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • There are some really tragic scenes depicting the fallout of colonialism in the wake of the Amazon rubber boom.
  • Evan and Karamakate stumble upon a cult. Some of the followers wear creepy outfits and worship a delusional messianic figure.

Spoilers

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Violence & Gore

  • A starving man with no arm begs another man to shoot him, knowing he will be tortured to death by rubber plantation owners otherwise. The man fires the gun, but is pointing away. Probably the most graphic scene in the movie.
  • A man takes another man's knife and presses it to his throat, egging him on. Nothing happens.

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