Wake in Fright
Movie • 1971 • Drama
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Wake in Fright is the story of John Grant, a bonded teacher who arrives in the rough outback mining town of Bundanyabba planning to stay overnight before catching the plane to Sydney, but as one night stretches into several he plunges headlong into his own destruction.
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Is there domestic violence?
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Alcohol!
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The whole movie revolves around a toxic masculine culture that exists in outback Australia. Beer is the drink of choice, and most of the movie focuses on drinking, being drunk, and the terrible effects of drunkenness on people and the environment.
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A man is given a pill from a sketchy stranger and doesn't know what it containe. He's prompted to take it.
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A greyhound whimpers when roughly handled by a drunk owner. A large kangaroo is hit multiple times by an angry drunk using balled fists. Hard to watch these scenes.
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Were animals harmed in the making?
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According to The film makers, the gruesome kangaroo killing scenes were 100% real. when they were filming they encountered roo shooters and filmed the "usual" (as in this happens legally not that it is justifiable) things that would happen during any given shooting. the kangaroos were not killed specifically for the movie but that doesn't make the biggest killing of land wildlife on earth okay.
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Is there a dead animal?
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Real footage of many dead kangaroos killed barbarically to be turned into canned pet food
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Bugs ARE shown close up around the 59 min mark. It's one of those sticky fly traps hanging from a cieling. It's covered in them. Buzzing, too.
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Only mentioned in conversation. No snakes here.
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There are very, very brutal and extended scenes of shooting, and hitting kangaroos with a car. At least 40 animals are killed and shown in graphic, nauseating detail. There is also a scene of a greyhound chasing, tackling and killing a small kangaroo.
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a drunk man is taken advantage of and there's some distubing sexual content that feels on the line of SA
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Is rape mentioned?
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When one character has an outburst about the town. If you would like to know what he says ahead of time, he says (Trigger Warning: he mentions child SA) "You... burn your house down, murder your wife, r#pe your ch#ld, that's all right. But if I don't have a... *flamin'* bloody drink with you that's a criminal offence!"
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The scenes of genuine, unsimulated, inhumane (somehow legal) torture and killings of kangaroos are excessive. I have never seen this level of animal cruelty. I'm not even all that sensitive to animal death, but I had to fast forward. So while it may not be over the top special-effects gore of humans, I would still say this has excessive gore.
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The movie is about the problems of excessive alcohol consumption; vomiting is part of the package.
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Is there a hospital scene?
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There is a scene in a hospital, but it is fairly benign.
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It is attempted and shown on screen. Gun.
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An attempted suicide fails.
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Is there sexual content?
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Nothing explicit, but it does have 2 near-naked men cavorting prior to sex. In the international version, a man’s p***s and woman’s b*****s are shown. Censored for US puritans.
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Kangaroos are chased, hit by cars and killed.
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However, it is driven whilst drunk.
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The mass shootings and roadkill deaths of kangaroos show a lot of real blood and gore, as well as broken bones, etc.
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Is there gun violence?
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The scenes showing mass killings of kangaroos was not filmed for the movie, but was filmed during a real hunt operated by licensed killers.
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