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14A(14A) Coarse Language

Synopsis

Mandarin-language Crime/Comedy. While two criminals (Zhang Yu, Pan Binlong) hide out at a woman's (Ren Suxi) apartment after a botched robbery, an ex-cop (Chen Jiangbin) tries to find a missing gun.

Content elements

  • Infrequent use of the sexual expletive and variations in a non-sexual context; infrequent use of scatological slang, cursing, vulgar expressions, and developmental slurs
  • Frequent portrayals of gun, weapons, and hand-to-hand violence, some in a torture context – little blood, some detail; frequent references to and discussions of suicide – some detail
  • Infrequent portrayals of sexual activity – no nudity, little detail
  • Infrequent portrayals of smoking in a recreational context – little detail

Thematic elements

  • Isolation and alienation
  • Human connection
  • Problems and solutions

Classification rationale

Rated 14A for coarse language, violence, and some mature subject matter

Classification date

November 20, 2018

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