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(1982)

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Sex & Nudity

  • Sammy is found with a woman on a couch, and shirtless with Nikki.
  • During the disco sequences, some women are wearing revealing outfits.
  • A man kisses a woman on top of her.

Violence & Gore

  • A man slaps two children.
  • A man pushes a woman away. Her head bumps onto an edge. She wakes up from it.
  • After being slapped, a boy tries to hit a man with his guitar, but is stopped by two men and is slapped continuously.
  • A young boy takes a knife and says to his mother "I'll sop their tongues". This never happens.
  • A young man gets beaten down by a bunch of men. As they click their fingers, he does the same, and manages to fight them all.
  • Villagers are seen being attacked with men throwing out properties whilst the village scream and shout for help.
  • A man throws his glass of wine at a man.
  • Jimmy brutally fights against a white man.
  • A white man grabs a woman's face. Nothing is shown.

Profanity

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Mr. Brown smokes a cigarette.
  • Sam injects himself.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • As a mother and her son walks through a village, a big group of children including the mothers keeps shouting at them "mother and son thieves" as they follow them.
  • A man slaps children, and pushes a woman and bangs her head on an edge of a stone.
  • Jimmy tells his past to everyone at the party.
  • Jimmy stands up to the man who blamed him and his mother for theft years ago.
  • Jimmy gets haunted by his past many times throughout the film.
  • Even though it is an underdog story about music and achieving what a man desires, there are scenes of haunting memories and men who threaten his life.
  • The film portrays a great tone of soft and warm entertainment in terms of music along with its fun moments, and it also portrays a dark tone of a young man going through obstacles of greedy people and his haunting past.

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Violence & Gore

  • Jimmy gets his car broken down. As he runs to find help during the night, the man in the car beeps the horn to gain attention of a bunch of men beating him down. He slowly fights them all back.
  • Jimmy's mother grabs a guitar when she suddenly falls from a heart attack.
  • Jimmy is seen chained up surrounded by men. Many men have hockey sticks. Jimmy is able to hit them back and is unchained. As he is held, a man is shown hitting his legs with a hockey stick.
  • Jimmy gets hit in the head by a fan from the audience.
  • A man shoots at Jimmy but a man gets in the way and is shot dead. The rest of the men continues shooting as the entire audience run away, scream in terror, and a few who die on-screen.
  • Jimmy fights back the men who killed the man that saved him from the assassination on stage. He fights everyone with punches, kicks, hockey sticks, etc. He is showing jumping on a white man ending up killing him. He avoids being shot at a man. He continuously punches him. Due to the editing and lack of realistic special FX, the man unrealistically gets electrocuted and dies.

Profanity

  • Use of the word "bastard"

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • When Jimmy's mother dies, visuals of multi-colours are being shown and Jimmy's reaction crumbles like glass with fire being lit.
  • Jimmy falls on stage.
  • Jimmy is seen chained up surrounded by men. Many men have hockey sticks and beat him up with them. He is later shown crawling on the ground desperately looking for help. Luckily, he received help and is later shown in hospital with crutches.
  • Throughout the last ten minutes, a group of men raid a live stage with everyone screaming and running away. Jimmy was supposed to be dead but a man saves him and dies in Jimmy's arms.

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