The film contains graphic scenes of explicit unsimulated ****** behavior, and portrays *******, murder, parental violence, alcoholism, smoking cannabis, incestuous ****** assault by a ********** father of his sleeping son, BDSM, autoerotic asphyxiation, religious fanaticism, a fake marriage of a father with his daughter, a boy having *** with his girlfriend's mother, and at the end an idyllic *** scene with two of the boys and the girl.
During an interview, Clark commented, "I decided that I wasn't going to turn the camera away, or shut the door, or shoot from the waist up."