The Dictator
Movie • 2012 • Comedy
ReportThe heroic story of a dictator who risks his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed.
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Is there pedophilia?
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HEAVILY implied and stated multiple times, but nothing is shown
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One of the scenes briefly shows a woman getting smothered with a pillow.
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After the fact, there is a VERY graphic exchange (VERY, VERY GRAPHIC) between two men referencing past abuse of a group of boys, which was carried out by the two discussing it. The wording itself is not what's graphic, exactly, but there is way more than enough implied (about the rape of these "15 year old" boys). It's also mentioned that several of them committed suicide after the event.
This sounds absolutely horrible, but the scene was played for a laugh. The humor is INCREDIBLY dark, and most people will most likely NOT find it funny. I only laughed because it caught me so off guard and the delivery between the two comedians was good, as they have excellent scene chemistry and I felt like the whole thing was improv. It's "shock humor" like Family Guy-esque, but it could very, very easily trigger someone.
I don't have a timestamp, but it's while they're in line at a funeral to get a beard for Aladeen and they're discussing his attraction to the main woman, even though he thinks she looks like a 15 year old boy. The other man responds that this is something he has been attracted to in the past, and their discussion begins there.
Also, this is very tame in comparison, but a rude young boy at the shop Aladeen works at is kicked by him and the boy falls into a stack of boxes.
This sounds absolutely horrible, but the scene was played for a laugh. The humor is INCREDIBLY dark, and most people will most likely NOT find it funny. I only laughed because it caught me so off guard and the delivery between the two comedians was good, as they have excellent scene chemistry and I felt like the whole thing was improv. It's "shock humor" like Family Guy-esque, but it could very, very easily trigger someone.
I don't have a timestamp, but it's while they're in line at a funeral to get a beard for Aladeen and they're discussing his attraction to the main woman, even though he thinks she looks like a 15 year old boy. The other man responds that this is something he has been attracted to in the past, and their discussion begins there.
Also, this is very tame in comparison, but a rude young boy at the shop Aladeen works at is kicked by him and the boy falls into a stack of boxes.
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Unless you count the fact that in the after credits a man's decapitated head is used to perform oral unknowingly on another man.
And there is mention of several 15 year old boys being assaulted
And there is mention of several 15 year old boys being assaulted
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Is there shaving/cutting?
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A corpse's head is cut off. The actual act of cutting is never shown.
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Is someone burned alive?
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The character who tried to set Aladeen to fire burns to death...
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Is there amputation?
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That does not count as amputation... There is no amputation in this movie.
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Does a head get squashed?
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The head clearly looks fake and is not scary at all.
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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While not shown on camera, Tamir requests surgery to shorten Aladeen's double's penis.
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Is someone tortured?
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There is no actual torture. Showing torture instruments is not torture by itself.
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Is there excessive gore?
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LosAngeloser
There is one scene where a character is shot in the head and there is blood, but not much.
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Does a parent die?
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rebeccabunch
Aladeen's mother is murdered directly after giving birth to him.
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Is someone kidnapped?
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A man is kidnapped in order for Aladeen's store to get a better review.
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Are there jump scares?
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Two men go back and forth trying to scare each other with a severed head, and it could potentially catch the audience off guard as well. As with everything else mentioned here, this is played for laughs, however the humor is very dark
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Is there a shower scene?
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A man takes a shower in a brief scene
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Does someone spit?
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Aladeen spits in disgust after seeing that Zoe does not shave her armpits.
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Large-scale Violence
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There are NOT. There is a brief joke about it at one point, but no depiction.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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It's mentioned that several young boys killed themselves after being sexually assaulted
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Does a baby cry?
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A baby cries after being born
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Are there babies or unborn children?
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Graphic birth scene showing the baby still in the womb
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Is there childbirth?
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A very graphic one, shown partially inside the woman's womb. It's hysterical, but wow, lol.
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Are there abortions?
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There is a graphic birth scene (very funny) that results in the main character asking for the trash can because he looks down and sees that the baby is a girl. Nothing happens to the baby.
Also at the end the main woman is pregnant and her husband asks "are you going to have a boy or an abortion?" But then it cuts to credits.
Misogyny in films really pisses me off, but this whole movie - like a lot of Sacha Baron Cohen's other films - uses misogyny in jokes in a way that I feel is brave and blunt enough to *call out* real world misogyny we might otherwise ignore (if that makes sense). That's definitely how I feel about the jokes in this film especially.
Also at the end the main woman is pregnant and her husband asks "are you going to have a boy or an abortion?" But then it cuts to credits.
Misogyny in films really pisses me off, but this whole movie - like a lot of Sacha Baron Cohen's other films - uses misogyny in jokes in a way that I feel is brave and blunt enough to *call out* real world misogyny we might otherwise ignore (if that makes sense). That's definitely how I feel about the jokes in this film especially.
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
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Joke where a character says "crippled", another joke where he says "midget"
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Are there usages of the n-word?
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Aladeen refers to a character as "his n*****" and it is said with a hard r
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Sacha Baron Cohen - who is himself a proud Jewish man - plays a lot of antisemitic characters to call attention to real world antisemitism. This film is no different. It might offend some, but keep in mind the meaning behind the jokes and the fact that Cohen is Jewish
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A running joke is that the main woman is mistaken for a boy constantly by the main character because she has short hair, small breasts & a very outspoken liberal/feminist attitude.
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Is there hate speech?
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A big theme of this movie is political oppression and dictatorship, so there are slurs and very non-PC jokes. The word "ch*nk" is used in a blink-and-you'll-miss-it scene (I only caught it on the subtitles because two characters were talking over each other). This was used during a scene making fun of Asian people flying planes and the main character pulled his eyes back briefly
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Is there sexual content?
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Aladeen has sex with a prostitute.
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