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Mild References

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Selected excerpts from BBFC guidance for films.

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Mild References @mildreferences.bsky.social · 6mo ago

There is a brief image of the killer stabbing a police officer in the throat, leaving a gaping wound from which the man's blood flows.

Mild References @mildreferences.bsky.social · 6mo ago

There are occasional references to mental illness. Images of smeared human excrement are shown.

Mild References @mildreferences.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Moderate violence includes gunfights, aerial dogfights between spaceships, and use of lightsabers and other hand-held weapons. Blood and injury detail is limited and brief.

Mild References @mildreferences.bsky.social · 6mo ago

A bottle is smashed over a man's head; however, there is no injury detail. In one scene, a young schoolboy briefly slaps a girl on the head.

Mild References @mildreferences.bsky.social · 6mo ago

There are scenes in which men are heavily beaten, with occasional bloodspurts and sight of cut and bloodstained faces.

Mild References @mildreferences.bsky.social · 6mo ago

A married couple talk about having a 'free pass' with a band member. A lyric references 'naughty love-makers'.

Mild References @mildreferences.bsky.social · 6mo ago

There are brief scenes in which adults snort cocaine; however, drug misuse is not condoned by the work as a whole.

Mild References @mildreferences.bsky.social · 6mo ago

There is also a moderate level of threat throughout as the central characters hear news of the fatal illness, or are held at gunpoint.

Mild References @mildreferences.bsky.social · 6mo ago

A wife sends her soldier husband pictures of her face stuck to photographs of the bodies of underwear models, and there are references to the 'dirty bits' in letters sent between married couples.

Mild References @mildreferences.bsky.social · 6mo ago

There are also mild to moderate sex references, including a man asking a youth, "I don't suppose your father has told you anything about sex"

Mild References @mildreferences.bsky.social · 6mo ago

There is a scene in which a bomb explosion rips through a shop, killing a character on the spot.

Mild References @mildreferences.bsky.social · 6mo ago

There are mild upsetting scenes, and references to bereavement.

Mild References @mildreferences.bsky.social · 6mo ago

A female humanoid robot tells a man who has fallen in love with her that her battery is low, and he lies on top of her, saying suggestively, "Don't worry, I'll recharge you".

Mild References @mildreferences.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Cocaine misuse and 'human trafficking', as well as a fleeting reference to sexual violence, are mentioned in the context of police investigations.

Mild References @mildreferences.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Students defend a police station against a siege of armed gangsters.

Mild References @mildreferences.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Upsetting scenes are centred on family and romantic discord, and the health condition of loved ones.

Mild References @mildreferences.bsky.social · 7mo ago

A farmer is forced to shoot an aggressive cow, resulting in a spurt of blood and brief bloody aftermath detail.

Mild References @mildreferences.bsky.social · 7mo ago

The film features mild bad language ('bloody') and very mild bad language ('God').

Mild References @mildreferences.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Two older teenage girls experiment with smoking cigarettes.

Mild References @mildreferences.bsky.social · 7mo ago

A woman refers to men wanting to 'give her one'.

Mild References @mildreferences.bsky.social · 7mo ago

There are references to, and sight of drugs.

Mild References @mildreferences.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Line drawing outlines in a tattoo parlour show brief female breast outline. However, these images are brief and undetailed.

Mild References @mildreferences.bsky.social · 7mo ago

There is no material likely to offend or harm.

Mild References @mildreferences.bsky.social · 7mo ago

'Ring girls' wear bikinis and lingerie.

Mild References @mildreferences.bsky.social · 7mo ago

The main character is chased by a tiger and an ape, and is threatened by a landslide and a forest fire.

Mild References @mildreferences.bsky.social · 7mo ago

There is a later verbal reference to the man having "finger bombed an old lady".

Mild References @mildreferences.bsky.social · 7mo ago

There are some scenes in which blood and injury are emphasised.

Mild References @mildreferences.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Characters are chased, panic and occasionally despair. A character is frightened when he meets skeletons in a graveyard. These sequences are brief, and reassurance is swift.

Mild References @mildreferences.bsky.social · 7mo ago

A man is choked and slapped around the head as he is told to drive his car to instruction.

Mild References @mildreferences.bsky.social · 7mo ago

A swimmer becomes unwell after drinking tea which she later suspects was poisoned.