Diagnosis: Dissent (Bozhevil'ni) (2023)

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Synopsis

Dir: Denis Tarasov. Ukrainian-language Drama. In the 1970s Soviet Ukraine, a man (Kostyantyn Temlyak) who loves foreign rock music finds himself incarcerated in a psychiatric hospital, only to discover that most of his fellow patients are people who dared to oppose the system.

Content elements

• Frequent use of the sexual expletive in a non-sexual context; frequent use of vulgar expressions; infrequent use of cursing and sexual slurs
• Frequent use of weapons and hand-to-hand violence, most in a torture context - blood and brutal detail; infrequent portrayals of gun violence - some blood and detail
• Infrequent portrayals of sexual activity - no nudity, some detail
• Infrequent male buttock and frontal nudity in a non-sexual context
• Infrequent portrayals of crude bodily functions - detail
• Infrequent portrayals of tobacco use in a recreational context; infrequent portrayals of substance abuse in an addiction context

Thematic elements

• Dissent vs conformity
• Soviet punitive psychiatry
• Perspective on freedom

Classification rationale

Rated 14A for brutal violence, coarse language, nudity, and substance use

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