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- Sex & Nudity (6)
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- Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking (4)
- Frightening & Intense Scenes (6)
- Spoilers (6)
Certification
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Sex & Nudity
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- (general) Many moments inside the Zillion discotheque involve decadent behavior with excessive, limitless forms of eroticism.
- (nudity) Main characters Frank Verstraeten and his girlfriend walk around naked in Verstraeten's private quarters above the Zillion. She does so where two strangers (at least to herself, not to Verstraeten) are present. Verstraeten is seen coming down the stairs completely naked, his member clearly visible.
- (general) Standing sex on various occasions, including the main characters.
- Naked women can be seen swimming in an aquarium inside Zillion as part of the disco's theme (as was the case in real life Zillion).
- The film's deuteragonist is a porn director. His workspace is seen throughout the film, also while he is working. Mostly shown are photo shoots he takes and the women are still wearing a lot of clothes. All in all, this is not too bad.
- (general) Some cases of frontal nudity.
Violence & Gore
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- A number of scenes where characters are beaten up until they can no longer stand or walk, including Verstraeten himself in discotheque Carré. There's also always a lot of blood involved. The film is not sparing with displays of blood.
- At one point, main character Verstraeten becomes so paranoid that when he notices on his CCTV screens that his girlfriend is being courted by his DJ (Deca), he has the DJ beaten up outside in the parking lot by his bouncers and other confidants. He is being thrown against a car twice and the driver's door is being slammed on him hard.
- The deuteragonist porn director is humiliated by Verstraeten's Albanian bouncer because he had sex with his daughter after previous shady affairs soured their business relationship. He is urinated on, he is kicked repeatedly by his henchmen. He manages to free himself by getting a gun and shooting. Later on, Verstraeten comes to his aid and saves him. For the entire sequence, the director is naked and in blood.
- When Verstraeten, who was beaten up in the Carré, is lying in his bath after his mother has taken care of him, we see a shot of Verstraeten under water and we briefly see the blood from his injuries slowly rising to the surface of the water. Not that bad to look at.
- At one point, the main character smashes his own possessions to pieces in frustration. His girlfriend is in a rage when trying to disable his CCTV cameras in his loft above Zillion (She is tired of his controlling behavior) In turn, that makes him angry as he watches her on the screens in the control room of his discotheque.
- Verstraeten's mother commits self-immolation, burning the palm of her hand over the stove, in a mad and hopeless attempt to make her son visit her. (as in 'he would have a reason to care'). Second-degree burns.
- A character is locked in a freezer, but is freed from it moments later.
Profanity
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- Many Flemish swear words.
Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking
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- (general) Given the film's main setting, a discotheque, the characters consume a lot of alcohol.
- (general) Drugs do not do the main characters any good. Hard drugs such as cocaine, amphetamine and MDMA all feature. Verstraeten's girlfriend in particular shows strong behavioral changes due to her drug (ab)use.
- Porn director Dennis 'Black Magic' Burkas smokes a cigarette in almost every scene we see the character.
- Cocaine is traded between doormen and Zillion club guests. One scene clearly shows how this got out of hand.
Frightening & Intense Scenes
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- A cold and mad Verstraeten grabs his girlfriend, who is under the influence of MDMA, by the hair and drags her to the bathroom mirror, telling her: "Look, that's all you have left", referring only to her beauty.
- A revenge-driven Verstraeten's fuse gets shorter and shorter, whereas he's composed, a lot quieter and nerdy at the beginning. He changes into someone who thinks he can take on the world. Verstraeten and his girlfriend Vanessa arguing becomes more intense to watch as the film progresses.
- Partygoers and bouncers resist the police special units when they raid Zillion, making for a very violent scene.
- Allochthonous youth are banned from his Zillion by Verstraeten. Riots with the bouncers occur when they learn they can not enter.
- (general) There is no obvious protagonist in this film and many of the actions taken are immoral or irresponsible. Frank Verstraeten and Dennis Burkas are depicted as antihero characters.
- People who suffer from ophidiophobia (fear of snakes) may be disgusted by the sight of a (young) tiger python that simply meanders through Verstraeten's disco atop a railing (mezzanine). Whether this happened in real life is quite unlikely. Verstraeten did own the python: he kept the reptile in a terrarium in his loft upstairs. In any case, the reptile must be tamed and then again, it is under a lot of stress because of the many partying people.
Spoilers
Sex & Nudity
- Deuteragonist Dennis has sex with an underage girl in which the girl satisfies him (characters are not completely naked). He is in danger of being caught by her father, but manages to escape through a window. However, he leaves his glasses behind. These are recognized by her father. He is treated harshly, humiliatingly even, by her father.
Violence & Gore
- Probably the most violent scene is near the climax of the film. A violent robbery is committed against Verstraeten and his girlfriend in which he is forced to open his safe. He is completely covered in blood, especially his face, and a bag is put over his head, causing him to have difficulty breathing.(based on real life events)
- Vanessa attacks Verstraeten's mother Marleen from behind in his loft when Verstraeten himself is not home, leaving his mother with a brain injury as she falls and lands badly. This has major consequences for Verstraeten, but he won't know at any point that Vanessa attacked his mother.
- Verstraeten drives someone else's car through the Carré disco in an act of revenge after being thrown out. He ruins the property by crashing through a window, ruining the entire space / room. After this, Verstraeten is beaten up by the owner and his accomplices in the owner's back office.
Frightening & Intense Scenes
- A character voluntarily spends a year in prison to keep from ratting out his fraudulent best friend (main character) and calls himself a 'man of honor'. Character effectively keeps his word throughout the movie. However, later in the movie the main character has a fleeting conscience. It makes the character wonder why he helped him and feel bad about it.
- Ending is emotional, presenting a moral dilemma. Mother reports son because she cannot live with the fact that he will marry his girlfriend (same woman who beat her up in her son's loft). She no longer wants the life he is living. Mother is afraid it's her misfortune as well as his. Her son is sentenced to two years effective prison sentence, plus two years suspended. Girlfriend disappears from their life. Everything is fine after he served his sentence.
