![]() Indigenous people are shown in shackles and with scars on their backs caused by whips. ![]() There are brief depictions of funereal cannibalism and shrunken heads. Characters are shot, and many are killed in scenes depicting the first world war. ![]() People are stabbed and impaled by thrown weapons. Violence: There are scenes depicting hunting and the killing of animals. Why is The Lost City of Z rated PG-13? The Lost City of Z is rated PG-13 by the MPAA for violence, disturbing images, brief strong language and some nudity Starring Charlie Hunnam, Sienna Miller, Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson. If you’ve got the time to watch it, I highly recommend it. I haven’t seen many other films that so gracefully handle the excitement, beauty, and incredible hardship of exploration. It’s a hard journey through a beautiful, at times surreal, landscape which even today is quite inaccessible. There’s also a good bit of what I would describe as “National Geographic nudity”, which is to say, non-sexual toplessness and a proclivity for loincloths: Both, I should mention, seem like a good idea in a steaming hot jungle.Īlthough the film could use a little trimming to keep the runtime down and the pacing up, The Lost City of Z is a compelling look at a man’s reach exceeding his grasp, far from the comforts of home and family. While not excessively gory or explicit, there are still scenes of unpleasant deaths, some of which are more deliberate than others. While the film, at two-and-a-half hours in length, is too long for younger audiences, parents won’t find too much else to worry about. Fawcett’s determination to prove the sophisticated origins of a people who have been denigrated, enslaved and abused his desire for recognition and success and the struggle he faces in reconciling those needs with his familial responsibilities elevate what would otherwise be a fairly by-the-numbers trek into the unknown into a fascinating character study of an explorer born at the end of empires. The film isn’t hung up on the details of these exploits as much as it’s focused on the motivations and consequences these expeditions entail. Fawcett’s real life adventures through the unmapped jungles of South America are incredible enough, to say nothing of his harrowing experiences in the First World War. Truth may not be stranger than fiction, but it’s at least as exciting. If he wants to go back to Amazonia, though, Fawcett will have to persuade his wife, Nina (Sienna Miller) who understandably wants him at home with her and their children. He has neither the food nor the supplies to investigate further, but Fawcett is captured by the idea of a lost city, which he refers to as Z and is determined to find. While surveying the vast jungle, Fawcett stumbles on evidence of an ancient civilization - shards of pottery and sophisticated stone carvings which would throw European conceptions about the uncivilized nature of the indigenous population into question. Major Fawcett and his aide-de-camp, Henry Costin (Robert Pattinson) are to survey the area and delineate the borders to prevent a war which could disrupt the global rubber supply. Still known as Amazonia, the area has become the source of a border dispute between Brazil and Bolivia, with several rich rubber producing areas on the line. Major Percy Fawcett (Charlie Hunnam) has been assigned to one of the only blank spaces left on the map. Maps are filling in, and there are fewer and fewer unknown places for an ambitious explorer to discover. By 1905, the age of exploration is coming to a close.
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