Despite the intense violence perpetrated by people in power, the movie's overall message is that victims of outrageous crimes and abuse can find dignity and self-respect by developing their skills and reaching inward for courage and strength.

Several sequences graphically depict sexual assault, forced oral sex, torture, beatings, and bloody attacks. Numerous gruesome photographs of mutilated female bodies appear throughout. Characters are strangled, hung, whipped with electrical cords, drowned, and burned.

Consensual sex and explicit sexual activity with partial nudity, both male and female (breasts). Graphic sexual dialogue.

English subtitles in translation from the Swedish include multiple use of "f--k," "motherf--ker," "bitch," "s--t," "goddamn," "whore," "c--t," "blow job," "damn," and more.

Apple computers, Google, Castrol, KIA.

The lead character, a young woman, smokes cigarettes non-stop. There's also some moderate social drinking in a number of scenes.