There aren’t really any spoilers in this, which is kind of the point of the movie. These huge horrible things happen to society as a whole, not just to the Main Characters as part of a movie plot. But the film does force you to look at this horrible things and really accept that they are happening every day.
This movie shows realistic and graphic images of the harms caused by a corrupt government, including the following scenes in order of appearance:
– Opening scene shows a village being rampaged by terrorists and people dying, including children.
– Farmer is stripped naked (with his genitals on display but blurred) by a bank official in front of his wife, grown up daughter, and the whole village. The farmer shortly commits suicide by hanging himself and the daughter finds him.
– Man is shown being forced to swallow a poison pill and die while bleeding through his nose and ears while his wife watches, so his newborn isn’t killed the same way.
– While a government official is talking about improvements he has made to government hospitals, there are images shown of malnourished, screaming, sick, dying mothers, children, and elderly individuals. People are shown opened up on the operating table while the hospital remains ill equipped to perform the surgery.
– An viral outbreak brings 60 children to a government hospital, all in need of oxygen. Hospital staff is manually helping the children breath waiting for the oxygen which never arrives due to the corrupt government. All 60 children are shown dying through asphyxiation while the adults break down.
– Multiple men break into a house and kill the dog. The dog is shown bleeding and dead while the women looks into its dead eyes and screams.
– A mother is shown taken away to be executed by order of a death penalty while the child is screaming and crying. The woman is then shown being hung. (I almost didn’t include this scene in this list because while this scene was one of the saddest in the movie, it was not overly graphic in my opinion.)
– A woman dies on a makeshift operating table after saving another woman’s life. Right before she dies, she flashes back to when she asked her children to hide in the bath tub and hold their breath, then we see poison gas sweep through her village leaving the children’s bodies floating in the tub.
Looking at this list, it should be clear that except for the Dog scene, everything else is intended to show social ills. Personally, I have no gratuitious violence objection to those scenes because I think they should be as harsh and confronting as possible. HOWEVER, that does not mean that every person in the world is required to watch them. Please read this list over before deciding whether or not to see the film, ESPECIALLY with children.
