Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power

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Strong themes, sex and nudity.

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Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power is a US documentary by filmmaker Nina Menkes, based on her talk 'Sex and Power: The Visual Language of Cinema', which investigates the politics of cinematic shot design and how this intersects with gender-based discrimination, sexual violence and the imbalance of power.

Themes

The film includes themes related to the sexualisation of women, references to sexual inequality, discrimination, sexual violence, gendered power imbalance and 'rape culture'.

Violence

The film includes short scenes of violence including hand to hand combat and a scene where a woman stabs a man with a pair of scissors as he sleeps.

Sex

The film includes numerous sex scenes and references to sex and sexual activity.

Language

The film includes use of the words "f**k", "cock", "ass", "shit" and "hell".

Drug use

The film includes a scene of implied drug use.

Nudity

The film includes numerous scenes of nudity, including full length male and female nudity with genitalia clearly visible.

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Classification date

9 June 2023

Year of production

2022

Classification

MA 15+

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Strong themes, sex and nudity.

Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power

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