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Sex & Nudity

  • There is an animated "sex" scene between two animated flowers, one male resembling a penis and the female flower resembling a vagina.
  • In Mother Pink (as a teen) is watching through a window of a teenage girl getting undressed (she still has bra and panties).
  • A woman is raped by neo-Nazis.
  • The Trial scene has some brief nudity but the near the end, a judge is a giant pair of buttocks with a ballsack for a chin and an anus for a mouth.
  • The scene in the Trial where the judge says he filled with urge to defecate it's rather gross and weird but instead of human waste he just throws up worms, bricks, humanoids, etc.
  • Multiple scenes of female nudity throughout
  • In the scene/song Don't Leave me Now, a man and Pink's wife (which she cheated on him) are seen making out. They are both fully naked. We see the woman's bare buttocks and the man's bare buttocks in many of the shots.
  • A man rips off a woman's shirt revealing her breasts from the behind briefly before it is implied he rapes her (not seen).
  • A scene where multiple topless women dance around. Less than 15 seconds long.
  • A man hallucinates a monster vaguely in the form of a vagina attacking him in the "Don't Leave Me Now" sequence
  • An animated nude women is seen dancing attached to a tree. Her bare breasts are visible. She then turns into ice cream though
  • The "Young Lust" sequence features several groupies dancing around in skimpy clothing to meet Pink. It is implied that One of them gives a guard oral sex, (Offscreen.)
  • The female flower resembling a vagina appears to briefly kiss and fellate the male's erect penis. The male flower's penis becomes fully erect and then thrusts into the female flower's vagina as they make love.
  • Live action:
  • A couple instances of nudity through the movie but they are always rife and never last long.
  • The nudity is just bare butts or breasts.
  • Animated:
  • In the trial scene where Pink sings his two verses, a naked man floats in the sky but it's brief and turns into a leaf (It was also used during their Wish You Were Here Tour)

Violence & Gore

  • A dog is set loose in a corridor and bites a man's arm.
  • The flower sex scene gets violent near the end of it. The female flower starts biting the male flower, splurging blood everywhere.
  • The movie is surprisingly violent and bloody, but most of the violence is animated.
  • There are several shots of soldiers, most of them dead, the rest of them dying.
  • There are many instances of violence and gore stemming from the film's Nazi and war themes.
  • A teacher beats students with a paddle.
  • In one scene that is repeated several times through the movie, a man appears to be drowning in a pool of his own blood.
  • Children fall into a giant meat-grinder twice in this movie.
  • These include a bombing as well as several bloody and dark animated sequences.
  • A lot of shots of people rioting in streets. (Breaking into stores, cars, bombings, etc.)
  • A man begins to destroy his room, and throws wine bottles, tables, chairs, etc. At a woman. He throws his television out the window, and we see it crushed when it hits the ground. The man stands at the broken window, and screams at the world, while he grips onto broken glass, as blood runs down.
  • A man shaves his face, and then his chest. As he shaves his chest, he cuts himself twice and a great deal of blood is shown. He then disposes of the bloody razor, and lets blood drip off of his body. As he exits his bathroom, we see that he has also shaved his eyebrows in a bloody fashion, and that blood is splattered against his walls.
  • A child wanders through some trenches from the war and finds several dead bodies. One of them is shown dead, in a very bloody manner.
  • A man's skins melts, and he tears it off.
  • Animated:
  • In an animated sequence, a bird explodes as another bird emerges from it. A lot of blood is seen, and will disturb some.
  • A soldier bashes a man's head in with a bat. His brains splatter out and blood is everywhere.
  • The schoolmaster's wife beats up a puppet of him. Not graphic and seen for about two seconds.
  • The schoolmaster shoves a bunch of kids into a meat grinder. Also brief.
  • A mutant dog bites another dog's head off after it grabs a piece of meat off a hook (Note: This scene was used back then during the In the Flesh Tour 1977).

Profanity

  • The film only features music. But little dialogue.
  • In the scene featuring "One of my Turns" "Nobody Home" and "Vera", A old black and white video features a dog named "Nigger". His name is mentioned 3 times throughout the sequence
  • 1 use of 'Bastard' 1 use of 'Bloody' 1 use of 'Bleeder' and 1 use of 'Bleeding'
  • "Fuck" is said twice, but not distinct. "Shit" is said in two songs ("Nobody Home", "The Trial"), once in each.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Drugs are a major part of the movie.
  • Several characters are seen doing various types of illegal drugs.
  • In Young Lust Characters are smoking and drinking at a backstage party
  • An animated sequence depicts a syringe (which most likely symbolizes drug use)
  • There are some sequences where there is smoking of cigarettes and marijuana.
  • In Some Scenes Pink his holding a dragged cigarette/joint between his fingers
  • A man gets injected with drugs to save him from an overdose.
  • While on drugs, a man believes that his skin has melted into an insect-like substance.
  • There is a scene where a man thinks he's being attacked by a giant flower.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • In the scene Another Brick in the wall Pt. 1 Pink as a child and his mother are in a church while the mother prays and sobs over the death of her husband who died in WWII and shows Pink fatherless which may upset person who lost a family member. (Note: This was based off of real live events from the singer)
  • The song "Run Like Hell" may scare young children. In the scene, Pink's troops are breaking into restaurants kicking people out and setting dogs loose.
  • The entirety of "The Trial" has many bizzare and macabre imagery, some of which are disturbing. Many of the creatures, which are supposed to be people Pink encountered (except "The Judge"), have very bizzare appearances, sometimes being an amalgamation of phallic body parts (The Judge).
  • Pink throws a dead rat into a river.
  • During the song "Comfortably Numb", young Pink cares for an injured rat.
  • During the Comfortably Numb sequence, Pink's acquaintances walk down while Pink himself is passed out shows the face of a teacher, a doctor, and soldiers.
  • During Another Brick in the Wall Pt.2. Children are wearing creepy masks and some fall into a meat grinder and it shows them coming out of the meat grinder. The children who fall in the meat grinder and the "meat" coming out of the grinder might be fake. But viewers may find this part gross and disturbing.
  • The movie is surprisingly intense as it does build up a very very dark atmosphere.
  • Live action:
  • A man is shown on a telephone in a trench, a bomb flashes, and he is seen dead.
  • The Nazi-theme may be intense for some viewers as well as a couple of other disturbing sequences.
  • A man has an emotional breakdown and trashes his hotel room.
  • In the infamous "Comfortably Numb" sequence, a man has his flesh melt in a surprisingly graphic manner. He then tears off his flesh revealing his alter ego.
  • A man cuts himself on broken glass (blood is seen)
  • A man appears to be drowning in a pool of blood
  • A man gets cut while shaving his face and chest with a razor
  • At the end of the "Nobody Home" sequence, young Pink wanders through a mental asylum and finds his future self, who appears mad and deranged.
  • In the "Another Brick In The Wall", children fall into a meat grinder and are seen coming out of the grinder as meat.
  • A little boy wanders through some of the trenches from a battle and finds several dead soldiers, some are covered in blood.
  • In the "Mother" sequence, a young sick boy runs into his mother's room twice. The second time, we see a zoomed-in close-up of his father's skeleton lying next to her in bed, an obvious instance of symbolism as the music crescendos at that very moment.
  • Animated:
  • Children are shoved into a meat grinder all at once, just like the scene mentioned above. This scene is not that graphic and is over fast.
  • All the cartoon sequences may be intense and very disturbing to some, especially the flower scene described in sex/nudity.
  • The movie deals with themes such as: war, death, sex, drugs, isolation and fascism.

Spoilers

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Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • There are three jumpscares in the movie, however the third one is just shocking and not really scary. It's at the very end of "The Trial" sequence, when the wall suddenly explodes

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