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Drama about the extent to which two
immigrants to Britain, a Nigerian working as a night porter at a
posh hotel and a Turkish chambermaid, must go to to improve their
lives. When they stumble across evidence of a bizarre murder a
prostitute helps them uncover the truth, which in turn improves
their lot. With Audrey Tautou, Sergi Lopez, Sophie Okonedo, Benedict
Wong and Zlatko Buric. Directed by Stephen Frears. [1:47]
SEX/NUDITY 6 - A man and a woman have sex while
standing up: we see thrusting and hear the man moaning. A woman is
forced to perform oral sex on a man: we see her go off screen and we
see his gratified face. A man touches a woman's chest, tells her to
take off her robe and forces her to have sex with him (we see him
thrusting and hear him moaning); we see blood on her robe later. A
man touches a woman's face tenderly, and a man and woman hug and she
kisses him on the cheek. A man unzips his pants and another man
looks at his crotch, and later several men do the same thing (they
are suffering from a venereal disease). A man makes a comment about
a man and a woman "nesting like birds."
VIOLENCE/GORE 5 - A character's side is marked with a
marker and a scalpel cuts into it (we hear squishing and see blood),
an organ is removed and placed in a plastic bag. A man yells and
moans in pain, we see his shirt with blood on it, he lifts his shirt
and we see a large, gaping, bloody wound. A toilet overflows, a man
puts a hanger into the bowl to unclog it, he puts his hand in, and
pulls out a human heart (the water turns red from blood). A woman
bites a man's private parts when he forces her to perform oral sex
on him: we see his pained face and hear him scream. A woman is
forced to perform oral sex on a man for his silence, and a woman is
forced to have sex with a man. A man hits a woman in the face (she
has a bloody nose), she kicks and punches him and sprays him in the
face with mace. A man shoves another man against a wall and
threatens him with a scalpel. A woman threatens to hit a man with a
bottle. A man in a morgue sweeps blood off a metal table. We hear
about a man's wife having been killed when their house was
firebombed. We hear about people selling their organs and that some
of them did not survive the removal. A body covered by a sheet is
wheeled into a morgue on a table (we see blue tinged feet with a toe
tag). People talk about rape while in jail. Two men barge into a
woman's apartment and search around. A man falls on the floor
unconscious after drinking a sedative.
PROFANITY 6 - 17 F-words, 7 sexual references, 4
scatological terms, 1 anatomical term, 4 mild obscenities, 3
religious exclamations. [profanity glossary]
DISCUSSION TOPICS - Immigration, organ harvesting,
rape, Muslims, prostitution, blackmail, love, dreams, principles,
virginity, desperation, guilt, going home.
MESSAGE - Sometimes we must take extreme measures to
free ourselves from extreme situations.
(Note: People are shown drinking alcohol, smoking tobacco and
marijuana. A man eats a leaf that helps to keep him awake.)
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