A Masterpiece That is Not For Children

Wow, this was quite a good movie. Honestly. I could go on about how great it was, but that's not really what this website is for.

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LANGUAGE: Apparently it set a record for the most number of "f**k"s spoken in film. I don't doubt it, but I wasn't really paying attention to the number. There was also great usage of the words "c**ks**ker," "c**t," and "Godd**n."

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DRUGS: This movie had some really graphic scenes of drug use. So graphic in fact that I felt a bit squirmy at times. The main character snorts cocaine out of a prostitute's an*s and becomes partially paralyzed in an extended scene that involves him crawling back to his home after overdosing on expired Quaaludes.

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SEX: This film also stirred up a ton of controversy for its sex scenes, of which there are many. Characters are seen thrusting, moaning, and talking dirty in various states of undress. Some sex scenes are orgies; others are one-on-one.

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NUDITY: I had also heard before going into this film that it was going to have a lot of "graphic" nudity. I'm not sure if "graphic" was the right word. When I think "graphic," I think on-screen depictions of male or female genitalia. There WAS some graphic nudity, in this sense, but what the film had a lot more of was nudity of the non-graphic nature. Let me explain: One very brief scene did show a man's e*ect p*nis as he was m*sturbating in public, and this was graphic, but very quick. There was technically a lot of full-frontal female nudity, but in every scene featuring a naked woman's crotch, it was mostly obscured by her pubic hair, shadow, or her legs. In other words, you didn't actually see any v*ginas, even when considering the very limited portion of the female genitalia that is visible on some women when they stand straight up. That being said, one scene did involve a woman spreading her legs open to her husband, but the shot right before she covers herself with her hand is so exceedingly brief that nothing at all can really be seen, and it would be hard to say whether or not there actually is even an image of genitalia that could be seen in some kind of frame-by-frame playback. In addition, there is a countless number of on-screen breasts and buttocks, both male and female.

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VIOLENCE: There is one scene in which a man punches another man and causes him to bleed and another character to vomit from seeing the blood. The main character gags himself over a toilet bowl (we don't see anything) to purge his body before taking some intense drugs.

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Again, this movie was excellently written and directed. It's laugh-out-loud funny at times, and hard to watch at others because of the graphic drug use and the overall pitifulness of the anti-role models' lives. Its combination of numerous sex scenes, coarse language, nudity, and graphic substance abuse make it a film that's best for adults only.