Where The Crawdads Sing [2022] [PG-13] - 5.5.3 - Kids-In

Where the Crawdads Sing VIOLENCE/GORE 5

– A man yells at his children and charges toward them while playing in a small motorboat: he hits one child in the face, knocks one child into the water and pulls her back out, and a boy charges the man and shoves him to the ground; the man then hits his wife hard across the face knocking her down (we see blood and a bruise on her face). A young man slaps a young woman in the face, she punches him in the face, he tackles her to the ground and straddles her reaching to unfasten his pants; he punches her hard in the face and she seems nearly unconscious as he turns her over on her stomach and an attempted rape is implied; the young woman hits the young man in the head with a rock several times (we see blood on his face), she kicks him in the stomach and threatens to kill him if he comes near her again (we see a bruise on the young woman’s face later). ► A young woman in a small motorboat tries to run from police officers (also riding in boats); she hides and runs through a marsh, and swims underwater until she is grabbed by an officer in a boat and pulled out of the water by her overalls. A young girl takes a boat through a marsh and gets lost; a boy helps her get back home. A young girl is shown having to fend for herself for food and necessities. A young woman hides from officials looking for her in several scenes; we hear that they are social services representatives and developers. A young woman hides in the marsh in her boat and she sees a young man looking for her. ► A young woman yells and throws stones at a young man when he comes toward her. Two young men talk about a young woman in a demeaning manner and another young man tells them to stop; one of the first young men charges toward him and they shove each other and one is slapped in the face before they are separated by another man. A young man grabs a young woman by the arm and she pulls away from him, and he becomes angry and yells when another young man mocks him. A young man and a young woman kiss on a beach, he pushes her back on the sand and moves on top of her; she then pushes him away, gets up and yells at him. ► A lawyer in a courtroom describes the events that led to the murder of a young man and says that he was lured to a fire tower and that the killer has a weakness of character. Children bully and mock a young girl when she goes to school for the first time and cannot spell a word for the teacher and we see her without shoes and dirty; they call her names and say she has “cooties.” A young woman is told that if found guilty of murder, the prosecution will seek the death penalty. People in a courtroom call out that a young woman is guilty of murder. A woman glares at a young woman and the young woman crosses the street to avoid her. A woman says that her son told her that he had broken up with a young woman. ► A woman leaves her home and children and her young daughter runs after her as she walks away (we hear that the woman never returned). A young girl talks about everyone leaving her as we see her siblings leaving one by one and one teen boy is shown with a bruise on his face. A young girl talks about her father leaving her and that she was totally alone. A man ransacks his home and breaks and burns items that belonged to his wife. A young woman describes feeling invisible. A young man talks about his mother and sister dying in a car accident. A young man tells his sister that their mother died. A young man tells a young woman that he is leaving for university and she becomes upset. A young woman waits on a beach alone into the night and wakes up in the morning still alone; she becomes upset and cries and a voiceover refers to “heart pain.” A young woman describes insects’ behaviors and says that the females of a particular type of insect have a specific call to attract males in order to eat them. A man warns a young woman that people in the town will judge her using their preconceptions. A man tells his young daughter to be careful and protect herself; he says that she cannot trust anyone. ► A woman is shown dead in a small boat and a man grieves over her. Two pre-teen boys find a body (we see no visible injuries) in a remote swamp and the police investigate; we see X-rays of a person’s head after an autopsy. People are shown grieving at a funeral for a man. A coroner determines that a man died from a fall from a 63-foot tall fire tower and hit his head on a metal bar on the way down. ► A young man rummages through things in a young woman’s home, he drops some drawings on the floor and the young woman becomes concerned that he will damage something. A young man goes to a young woman’s house to explain after another young woman introduced herself as his fiancée; he becomes angry and throws things around the room when he cannot find her. A young woman returns to her home to find it ransacked. ► A young girl carries a letter from her mother to her father and he reads it and burns it as the child pleads with him to let her have it. A young woman is startled by a young man in the woods and she hides. The marshlands of North Carolina are shown with alligators in the water.