• Director(s)

    Sam Quah

  • Production Year

    2024

  • Release date

    26/07/2024

  • Genre(s)

    Crime, Drama, Thriller

  • Approx. running minutes

    120m

  • Cast

    Chuan-jun Wang, Janine Chun-Ning Chang, Francis Ng

Film

A Place Called Silence

strong violence, bloody images, threat, child sex abuse, domestic abuse

The disappearance of a number of teens leads to dark and violent secrets being revealed in this real world Mandarin language crime thriller, which examines themes of revenge and features brutal bullying sequences.…

The disappearance of a number of teens leads to dark and violent secrets being revealed in this real world Mandarin language crime thriller, which examines themes of revenge and features brutal bullying sequences.

Content Advice(May contain spoilers)

violence

threat and horror

language

discrimination

sexual violence and sexual threat

suicide and self-harm

injury detail

theme

  • Director(s)

    Sam Quah

  • Production Year

    2024

  • Release date

    26/07/2024

  • Genre(s)

    Crime, Drama, Thriller

  • Approx. running minutes

    120m

  • Cast

    Chuan-jun Wang, Janine Chun-Ning Chang, Francis Ng

strong violence, bloody images, threat, child sex abuse, domestic abuse
Classified Date:
26/07/2024
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Trinity Filmed Entertainment
violence
There are scenes of strong violence which see people struck and stabbed with bladed weapons, causing blood to spurt and splatter. Intense sequences of bullying occur, during which school girls force a victim to wear a crown of thorns, causing bloody injuries, and force feed her liquid. A person beats their teen daughter viciously with a ruler, causing red bloody welts to break out on their skin, and later a man is brutally physically violent towards his wife, again causing bloodshed.
threat and horror
Teens are stalked and attacked by a hooded figure. In one sustained and menacing sequence, the person traps a girl, helpless and distressed, inside an abandoned bus.
language
Language is moderate (‘bitch’), as well as uses of milder terms such as ‘ass’, ‘crap’ and ‘hell’.
discrimination
A man makes a sexist remark towards a woman, however it is implicitly condemned.
sexual violence and sexual threat
It is implied that a child has been sexually abused by an adult, though this occurs off-screen. There is a strong reference to child sexual abuse when a child in a long white t-shirt is shown with blood staining around her crotch. It is revealed a man has been secretly filming a woman without her knowledge, including when she is getting undressed. Sexual violence is clearly challenged by other characters and the film as a whole.
suicide and self-harm
A man takes his own life, though there is no aftermath detail.
injury detail
After a man’s throat is slit off-screen, blood spurts from the wound in his neck. There are frequent bloody images as a result of, and in the aftermath of, violence.
theme
People grieve the deaths of loved ones.

  • Classified date

    26/07/2024

  • Language

    Mandarin