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Turtle Beach | 1992 | R | - 4.7.5
Greta Scacchi, is an Australian photojournalist wanting to break the story of the Vietnamese boat people seeking refuge in Malaysia.
SEX/NUDITY 4 - The only real nudity is a woman's bare derriere. A scene where a woman uses her body to cool her husband's anger-playing the baby, the "bad girl," to the papa who is always protecting her; she is clad in a negligee and he puts his hand to her breast.
VIOLENCE/GORE 7 - The movie opens with rioting in the streets. Later, during a Hindu festival, a long needle is poked through a youngster's lip. When the Vietnamese boat people try to swim to shore, the Malaysian villagers charge them with swords and butcher knives-slicing open their sides, chopping off heads, etc. Eventually only dead bodies are left floating in pools of blood.
LANGUAGE 5 - The F-word is used once-and that's about it.
DISCUSSION TOPICS - The movie raises questions of extra-marital sex, submissive sex, the black market, oppression and violence.
MESSAGE - Of course, the main message is the victimization of refugees, which can also be applied to the treatment of minority groups in general.
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