In 1940s Los Angeles, two former boxers-turned-cops must grapple with corruption, narcissism, stag films and family madness as they pursue the killer of an aspiring young actress.
This movie contains 1 potentially triggering events.
There’s a scene where Elizabeth Short’s pornographic film is shown and it looks like she is not into the action happening and it could absolutely be triggering as the scene lingers a lot on her upset and discomfort with the sex happening. There are also references in conversation to Kay being sexually assaulted when she was a sex worker.
Not technically, but there is reference to a man being obsessed and sexually attracted to a woman who looks like his daughter. It’s unclear (to me at least) whether he is aware she’s his daughter, though.
When the killer of the Black Dahlia is revealed they end up killing themselves after revealing the story. It’s heavily telegraphed but still comes quick and is graphic. It’s over after moments.
There’s a part when Bucky goes to a crime scene in the latter half of the film and there’s a shot of a dead child that horrifies him. It lingers for a moment before cutting away.
About an hour and a half in when one man is choking another on a balcony, they’re attacked and fall off and one of the man lands directly onto a spiky fountain on his head and it’s a quick but bloody and explicit moment of his head exploding.
Near the beginning of the film when the two leads are boxing, a big blow gets landed on Bucky and his two front teeth get knocked out. Moments later we see they’re being replaced with a retainer.
Not alive, but we see a person put into a cremation machine and they’re not in a box of anything so you see them pushed in ever so briefly before it cuts away.
Vaguely? The film doesn’t super lean into the psyche of the characters but there’s a random moment near the end when Bucky gets flashbacks to the crime scenes and it upsets him.
There’s some mild antisemitic phrases used in the film at various points. Mostly just twice in the beginning and one weird comment in the latter half of the film?
Sort of? Two people sleep together like a day after the woman’s boyfriend dies so it’s sort of not technically but there’s energy between them before he dies.
Lee eventually becomes very angry and takes a lot of his anger out on scaring his partner. There’s also discussion of her previously abusive relationship.
Nothing is ever truly said explicitly regarding the sexualities of the characters but very coded bisexual or lesbian characters die throughout the film. It handles queer content very messily in this movie.